Clawed
L.A. Kornetsky
Pocket Books, May 26 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9781476750088
Having earned a reputation as part of a team of
unlicensed private investigators in Seattle (see Doghouse, Collared and
Fixed); Ginny Mallard is thrilled with her first
out of town client who wants to use her day job skills as a concierge. Ginny’s sleuthing partner Teddy Tonica is
concerned over her propensity for trouble, but since she is not detecting he
expects no problems.
As Teddy and Penny the cat remain at Mary’s where
the human manages the establishment, Ginny and Georgie
the shar-pei drive to Portland to meet with her new
patron. After leaving Georgie at the
Pines Hotel, she continues onto her meeting with wheelchair-bound Mrs.
Adaowsky. Running late, Ginny rings the
bell but no one responds. Finding an
unlocked door, Ginny cautiously enters but only a corpse greets her. Calling 911, PPD cops arrive and tell her to
go home but remain available if needed for further questioning. Perhaps out of a sense of loyalty, Ginny
feels a strong need to investigate. The
rest of the sleuthing quartet reluctantly joins her mostly to perform the
impossible task of keeping Ginny out of stepping into danger.
The fourth Gin & Tonic Mystery “researchtigations”
is an appealing anthropomorphist amateur
sleuth that takes the heroine and her entourage out of the comfort zone of the
Ballard neighborhood bar and Seattle into a “foreign” location. The lead humans and their animal owners
remain fresh protagonists while the Portland homicide case proves once again
perilous.
Harriet Klausner
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