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.
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), April 2008
ISBN-10: 0-7387-1249-3 (0738712493)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-1249-9 (9780738712499)
Omnimystery keywords for Shadow Waltz ...
Location(s) referenced: Connecticut.