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4.0 out of 5 stars
Comic mystery- synopsis, Nov 8 2003
From Dj liner:Lill Hodseon is a monster. She humiliates her husband, blackmails her lovers, browbeats her teenaged daughter, and smothers her grown sons with a mother love that leaves them inwardly screaming for freedom. Vulgar and flashy herself, Lill has a way of zeroing in on everybody else's weaknesses and ridiculing them. She is just asking to be murdered. And her two sons are ready to oblige. In fact, they have it all worked out for Saturday night. A creature of habit, Lill always stops by the local pub on Saturday evenings between 7:15 and 9:30 for a few pints and a giggle. What could be easier than lying in wait for her in a darkened alley? And who would suspect that Lill's supposedly devoted sons could contemplate murder? But when Lill is found strangled on Thursday on her way home from a lover's house, nobody is more surprised than her sons. And since half the town regards the unknown murderer as a civic hero, Chief Inspector Domini McHale , on his first murder case, has more suspects than he can handle. He also has more vanity than sense, which doesn't help the investigation. Writing with his usual masterful comic flair , Edgar nominee Robert Barnard give us a murder mystery that not only challenges the wit but delves incisively into family relationships and life in a small and introverted community.
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