All right. I have to admit that I haven’t read any murder mysteries in a few decades. I think I read a few Agatha Christie’s quite a while ago, and enjoyed them, but that’s about it.
So why would I read a murder mystery by a new author? Well duh, because I know the author!
Maggie Barbieri lives in my town and goes to my Church, and we commiserate with each other about some mutual issues, so naturally, I had to read her book.
An easy, light-hearted read, and it was really good – very amusing!
Now I may be biased – in fact I am. But the #1 reviewer on amazon.com, Harriet Klausner, an aquisitions librarian who has posted 12,743 (and counting) reviews on amazon Amazon.com: Profile for Harriet Klausner, gave the book five out of five stars on November 17th. So we both must have good taste.
The heroine of the book is Alison Bergeron, an English professor at a small Catholic college located north of Manhattan on the Hudson river (Sounds suspiciously like Mount St. Vincent’s, a school my mother is an alumnus of). If you can imagine Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Zena the Warrior Princess, all rolled into one, that’s Alison.
So a week after Alison’s divorce is finalized, her car is stolen, and when it turns up, it’s got the body of one of her students stashed in the trunk.
Whodunit?
There’s some character development of friends, enemies, and ex’s, a romantic interest with one of the investigating detectives, lots of glib humor and one liners, and a clever ending.
All good fun. A breezy read and a great gift for Christmas.
I’m looking forward to the second installment of Alison’s adventures!
For more, go here:Amazon.com: Murder 101: Books: Maggie Barbieri
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