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A Pleasant Surprise!, Juil 16 2004
While wandering through a used bookstore the other day, I ran across this book, and based purely on title alone, I had to pick it up. Turns out that it is part of a series of mysteries, each originating on a holiday. (The Good Friday Murder, The St. Patrick's Day Murder, etc)The detective of each story is Christine Bennett, a recent ex-nun, and that is where I had the most problems with this story. The mystery was fairly well done; however, I felt that the character of Christine just didn't feel right for an ex-nun. Here's a woman who was a NUN for 15 years, and now just a few months later, she's drinking, dating (and ultimately sleeping with) men, and just in general, acting a little too...well...normal. I would think that we should see more of an internal conflict than we do. But like I said, the mystery was good. And there were a few themes that ran through the book that I enjoyed, such as the young befriending the elderly, and cross-cultural relationships, which can be unusual in a mystery.
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Chris Bennett finds murder once again, Sep 19 2002
Our housewife sleuth, former nun Christine Bennett is working with a trio of elderly rent control tenants who are barely hanging onto their homes while being harassed by the owners of their building to drive them out so the apartment house can be gutted and turned into high priced condos for a tidy profit to the landlords. On Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, Mr. Herskovitz is found dead, viciously beaten. Christine isn't convinced that the motive was a scare tactic that got out of hand, as the police believe. She begins to dig into the past and comes up with several other suspects. Will her own life be in danger until this mystery is solved? You bet, but in the mean time, the reader is treated to another cleverly crafted, multi-layered story. Proving that even old men sometimes have secrets that they want to hide. And also proving that it is mighty hard to keep anything hidden from our hero Chris, once she starts hunting for answers.
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SUPER MYSTERY SERIES, Aoû 13 2000
In this, the second Christine Bennett (ex-nun) mystery, Christine investigates the beating death of her friend, elderly Mr. Herskovitz, one of a few tenants who refused to leave his condemned apartment building........ Clues from finding out about his past life in Nazi Germany, to a rare book, helps Christine finally get to the murderer......... You won't be disappointed in any books from this series....Christine and her boyfriend, Jack Brooks, work well together, and their relationship just blossoms so realistically! Very likeable and intelligent leading characters, and books that keep us guessing right up to the end! Hooray for Lee Harris!
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