- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: New Victoria Publishers (May 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0934678839
- ISBN-13: 978-0934678834
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.3 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 254 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,385,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Narrator Meg Darcy works for her uncle's security firm in St. Louis, where a serial killer has murdered several homeless women. The killer also apparently murders a friend's aunt, who has wandered away from a nursing home, and Darcy mounts her own investigation. When a nursing home employee is killed, Darcy, suspicious by nature, looks for a second murderer, antagonizes the butch policewoman she lusts after, and finally identifies her quarry. Once past a rather pedestrian beginning, this first novel gathers speed. For large collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Three homeless women have been plucked from the streets of St. Louis, strangled, and propped up against tombstones in local cemeteries without Det. Sarah Linquist's Task Force getting to first base. But when Mary Margaret Brooks, Ann Yates's wealthy, Alzheimer's-stricken Aunt M, wanders away from her nursing home to become the fourth victim, Ann hires Meg Darcy to ride Linquist till she produces results. She doesn't know that Meg would love to ride Linquist all night long, or at least get further than first base. The detection in Marcy's first novel--with sidelights on the nursing home staff, Aunt M's heirs, and an inexcusably tangential missing poodle--would have been more distinctive if Meg weren't so obsessed with getting into Linquist's pants. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A real page-turner,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cemetery Murders: A Meg Darcy Mystery (Paperback)
I would have given this book 5 stars, but the writing style is a little simplistic. However, the plot is great and the tone is WONDERFUL. I hated to put this book down. I kept wanting to know whodonit - and what happens between Meg and the Detective!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deceptively unpretentious,
By paedagogue "paedagogue" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cemetery Murders: A Meg Darcy Mystery (Paperback)
prose, clean and precise, propels this mystery/bittersweet love story. The first-person narrative is vibrant and sexy: P.I. Meg Darcy and her elusive object of desire Sarah Lindstrom stay with us, whetting our appetites for the subsequent 3 volumes in the series (the 2 that are published don't disappoint in their interweaving of mystery and romance). Though the excellent J.M. Redmann's Micky Knight has more more kinks in her personality (and more baroque mysteries to solve), Meg Darcy compares well in her 3-D characterization.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cemetery Murders : A Mystery,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cemetery Murders: A Meg Darcy Mystery (Paperback)
Not bad, for a first time out. Characters are well defined, the story line was plossable, wished that one of the "Loose ends" would have been assisting Womens shelters or Homelessness but got theme anyway. hope to see more of these authors
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