Death Takes A Mistress
Rosemary & Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works, Jul 31 2014, $14.95
www.magicile.com
ISBN: 9780983859758
In 1982 Bath, England, Wayne Sachs comes home
from work to see the door to his neighbor Lainee Cohen’s flat open. He mentions it to his wife Janie who is
worried about the young single mom as Lainee is running late to pick up her
three month old infant Ivy. The couple
enters the apartment only to find Lainee’s corpse. The Sachs raise Ivy along with their own two
children as part of the family while the homicide goes cold with the only vague
clue involving a Jewish family in Annapolis, Maryland.
In 2005, Ivy heads to the States seeking to
locate her paternal family with one goal in mind: find her mom’s lover (her
biological father) who killed her. Ivy
obtains a clerk position at The Olde Victorian Bookstore owned and run by Dan
and Rivka Sherman; and through them a room at the Widow Riley’s house, a place
where Rivka was held prisoner (see Death Goes Postal). Reluctantly Ivy admits her reason for being
in Maryland. Dan’s lawyer-friend Joel
Wise obtains 1979-1983 records that list families starting a business in
Annapolis. Rivka and Dan reduce the potential
number to four. However, someone is not
just unwelcoming as this person tries to kill the Englishwoman.
The second Dan and Rivka Sherman cozy is a super cold
case mystery (it went frozen twenty-three years ago) wrapped inside a family
drama as Ivy learns what matters in life, how fortunate she has been with
people caring for and about her, and that revenge is insignificant. The keys to this fabulous tale are the
amateur sleuthing seems genuine and Ivy keeps the storyline focused as
refreshingly the prime player.
Harriet Klausner
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