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Looking for a midlife career change? Looking for a new life? In Eric Wright's second Lucy Trimble book,
Death on the Rocks, 50-year-old Lucy has already ditched small-town Ontario for a new home, a new lover, and an unusual new profession: a private investigator in Toronto the Not-So-Good. Lucy lands a "real" client, Greta Golden, who retains her to identify a mystery man asking uncomfortable questions. The stalker turns out to be a British security consultant hired to establish Greta's bona fides to qualify for an inheritance. Her curiosity piqued, Greta dispatches Lucy to England to solve the mystery of her parentage, and the action heats up.
One of Canada's most popular crime writers, Eric Wright has won multiple Arthur Ellis Awards. He's best known for such Charlie Salter novels as A Question of Murder, A Fine Italian Hand, and Death by Degrees. He introduced Lucy Trimble in Death of a Sunday Writer, and this unlikely candidate for the hard-bitten P.I. role proves a wry and pleasing protagonist. Offered a domestically brewed Heineken in a Toronto bar, she replies, "'Brewed locally to Canadian tastes.' What does that mean? German beer for people who don't like German beer?" (Never mind that Heineken is Dutch.) Death on the Rocks is bright and witty, and in typical Wright fashion, the supporting cast of oft-idiosyncratic characters is well-drawn. With plenty of suspense, intrigue, and romance, Death on the Rocks keeps the reader engaged and happy through its surprise ending. --Kerry Doole
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Death On The Rocks is a typical cozy based on a disputable birthright. There is little action and less suspense in a plot that is guessed early and easily. This second in the Lucy Trimble series (the first was Death Of A Sunday Writer) is not nearly as engaging as Eric Wright’s Charlie Salter books.
Forty-year-old pottery sales woman Greta Golden thinks she is being stalked. She hires 50-year-old P.I. Lucy Trimble to find out who is following her and why. Trimble learns soon enough that British detective Michael Curnow is seeking information on Greta for a client in England. As expected, Trimble and Curnow become an unlikely duo and set off on the same path with different goals. Can hints of romance be far behind?
Death On The Rocks splits down the middle. Half of it takes place in Toronto; half, in England. The story, too, seems split in half. The Toronto scenes are set up to give the necessary background information concerning a 100,000 pound inheritance from a previously unknown relative.
After Lucy arrives in England, she finds herself deeply entrenched in a Christie-like adventure complete with midwives, bodies jumping or falling or being pushed from cliffs, witnesses with conflicting accounts, and countryfolk unwilling to offer up any information except for the sake of confusion.
At every turn, in Cambridge, at Stonehenge, in Dartmoor, Lucy finds Michael five steps behind or ahead of her. Everyone bumbles along to the final resolution about the question of parentage which never quite seems an important enough question in this passable foray into cozy territory.
Robert Allen Papinchak (Books in Canada)
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