Marked for Murder
Dixie Lyle
St. Martin's Paperbacks, Mar 31 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9781250031099
At the latest event hosted by certifiable eccentric billionaire
Zelda Zoransky, Anna Metcalfe was electrocuted when a hair dryer fell into the
swimming pool. Leading the official
inquiry into the wrongful death, Hartville Police Lieutenant Forrester
questions ZZ’s “Gal Friday” Deirdre "Foxtrot" Lancaster. While the late Tango feline ghost telepathically
encourages her to stop apologizing, she explains to the cop how little she knew
the victim in spite of Anna being the sister of her employer’s chef Ben Montain
the Thunderbird; who happens to be Deirdre’s boyfriend. She also tells the officer about ZZ’s “salon”
gala and other events.
Ben insists the dryer lacked the voltage to kill his sibling and
proved his assertion with an experiment he conducted on himself. Thus Foxtrot, Tango and Whiskey the canine
shapeshifter investigate the murder by crossing over as well as looking into
the activities of the victim, and two-legged and other “guests”.
With the exception of grieving Ben, the third Whiskey Tango
Foxtrot paranormal cozy (see To Die Fur and A Taste Fur Murder)
is a lighthearted whodunit due to the farcical furry frolics of the cast. The amateur sleuths (from the Inspector Clouseau
investigative school), Ben, zany ZZ, guests from the other side and
the suspects come together in an amusing anthropomorphist
supernatural mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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