The Black Stiletto: Endings &
Beginnings
Raymond Benson
Oceanview, Nov 4 2014, $26.95
ISBN 9781608091034
Martin Talbot tells his daughter Gina about the daring five years
of escapades of her maternal grandmother Judy Cooper starting in 1958. Like him, Gina is excited over her grandma
leaving Texas for NYC where she became the Black Stiletto masked
vigilante. After reading the first three
diaries, Gina starts the fourth (see The Black Stiletto: Secrets & Lies) in
which Judy left for Los Angeles with the love of her life Leo Kelly. Martin begins the fifth and what appears to
be the last diary. The pair will do what
it takes to keep their one time superhero relative safe from those with a five
decade plus grudge.
In 1962 pregnant Judy cannot believe her former
lover Leo the mobster and his psycho sister Christina framed the Black Stiletto
for crimes they committed. Limited
physically as she carries her baby, Judy shrewdly tries to fight back using
brains not brawn; but is forced to leave Southern California for Texas to make
her last stand.
The Fifth Black Stiletto Diary
is a great ending to a tremendous series as all the major threads are deftly
and logically completed. Once again,
Raymond Benson makes it seem as if Judy wrote her latest diary over fifty years
ago. Rotating subplots (and points of
view), the gripping storyline provides readers with wonderful Endings &
Beginnings.
Harriet Klausner
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