Consider the Alternative

Anita Servi Mystery #3

by Irene Marcuse

Anita Servi has a new job, but with the same problems: helping those who cannot find help elsewhere cope with living in a city that can't always afford to provide all they need. When those citizens are suffering because of age or race or income, when they find no alternatives, they turn to people like Anita. Sometimes they turn to each other.

And sometimes they turn on each other; then help becomes murder. Now Anita Servi has to investigate one friend's death as another begins to face her own.

272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Irene Marcuse is the granddaughter of social philosopher Herbert Marcuse, an accident of birth that has formed a lot of her life. She has lived all over the United States and worked as a medical technician, long distance telephone operator, house cleaner, waitress, painter and wallpaper hanger, bead stringer, proofreader, and editor before receiving an MSW in social work from Columbia University. Before becoming a full time writer, Irene was Assistant Director of Morningside Retirement and Health Services.

Reviews

[Avery Passons · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is absolutely not a common read for me. It was a $2 “blind date with a book” I picked up in PDX. However, it was a quick 2 day (easily solvable by 1/2 through) mystery that acted as a pallet cleanser after Trainspotting. Recommend to a friend? Ehh not really, but I didn’t hate it.

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is the third book in the anita servi series. good read and further development of characters. i found a fourth book but i think she stopped writing after that one