Shadow
Waltz
A
Marjorie McClelland Mystery
Amy
Patricia Meade
Midnight
Ink (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-7387-1249-3 (0738712493)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-1249-9 (9780738712499)
Publication Date: May 2008
List Price: $13.95
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Newly betrothed and looking forward to the future,
wealthy Englishman Creighton Ashcroft and mystery author Marjorie
McClelland would like nothing better than to enjoy some quiet time in
which to write about their adventures and plan their impending nuptials.
Fate has different plans for the couple when a young mother shows up on
Marjorie's doorstep asking for help to find her missing husband.
Accepting the case, Marjorie and Creighton are led to an abandoned
house and the dismembered body of the husband's mistress. When the
husband is convicted of murder, Marjorie feels a nagging doubt that he
might not have been guilty. Can her fiancé keep Marjorie's
sleuthing nature under wraps or will he be willing to jump in and help
her solve another mystery?
Review:
Though planning her upcoming nuptials, mystery writer and amateur
sleuth Margorie McClelland takes time to help a woman find her missing
husband and child in Shadow Waltz,
the third mystery in this series by Amy Patricia Meade.
The young women is Elizabeth Barnswell who, after reading about
Marjorie's success in helping the police solve recent homicides, comes
to her door and pleads for her help. She has been to the police but
since her husband, Michael, and infant son have only been gone for a
few days, the police are reluctant to help. Marjorie and her
fiancé Creighton agree to help her. Elizabeth gives Marjorie
a key and a slip of paper with an address on it to get them started.
They find the house and they also find a mutilated woman's body.
Detective Robert Jameson, Marjorie's ex-fiancé, and his
partner have also been drawn to the crime and have begun an
investigation. The competition begins again for Marjorie and Robert:
Who will identify the body first and who will apprehend the murderer?
The police, of course, have systematic methods of deduction, but
Marjorie has her gifted insight. When the dead woman is identified as
Michael's lover, the police waste no time in locating him and arresting
him for her murder. Marjorie's intuition, however, tells her to look
further. There's more to this than meets the eye.
Shadow
Waltz serves up a reasonably
complicated romantic murder mystery yet is easy to read. It's also
somewhat comedic offering plenty of laughs. It would be a perfect book
to enjoy while on vacation this summer, even if "vacation" is just a
few hours relaxing in the backyard.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Shadow Waltz and to Midnight Ink for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2008 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Mysteries in this series …
Million
Dollar
Baby
Midnight Ink (Trade Paperback), April 2006
ISBN-10: 0-7387-0860-7 (0738708607)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-0860-7 (9780738708607)
Ghost of
a Chance
Midnight Ink (Trade Paperback), April 2007
ISBN-10: 0-7387-1092-X (073871092X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-1092-1 (9780738710921)
Shadow Waltz
Midnight Ink (Trade Paperback), May 2008
ISBN-10: 0-7387-1249-3 (0738712493)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-1249-9 (9780738712499)
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Location(s) referenced: Connecticut.
