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This short mystery revolves around murder on Big Sister Island, Connecticut, where Mitch Berger, renowned film critic, rents a house and then unearths his landlady's husband. State Police Detective Desiree Mitry investigates and ultimately teams up with Berger to solve the mystery. Stephen Hoye and Marguerite Jennings switch off narrating from Mitch's and Desiree's points of view. Hoye holds firm control over his New York City and New England accents, slipping only once or twice when the action becomes tight. Jennings uses a more subtle accent for Mitry and softer tones for Berger. The dual, yet non-interactive, narration adds spark to Handler's cunningly contrived story of murder in staid New England. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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Mitch Berger, a top film critic with a major New York newspaper at a surprisingly young age, has become almost a recluse since his wife died one year ago. He spends his time secluded in his apartment or in the dark recesses of a screening room. Although he continues to dazzle moviegoers and the film elite with his criticisms, his editor and good friend is alarmed about him. As a scheme to pull him out of the doldrums of his grief, she gives him a non-film assignment - to do a color story on the wealthy and social homeowners on Connecticut's Gold Coast. It takes some doing, but in the end Mitch agrees. He is fortunate to find a cottage to rent on Big Sister, the absolute top-of-the-line private island outside the town of Dorset. His landlady, Dolly, is pleasant and friendly, but some of the other inhabitants of this small piece of land, although too well bred to come right out and say it, are not happy to have Mitch, born of parents only one generation away from Eastern Europe and raised on the city's pavements, arrive in their back yard. But Dolly, whose husband has recently left her, needs the money, and at least she is more than gracious. The discovery of a body during a bout of optimistic gardening in Dolly's back yard brings on the other main player - Lieutenant Desiree Mitry, one of only three women on the Connecticut State Police major crimes squad, the youngest of the three, and the only black. A dedicated officer, she is the terror of everyone who doesn't really want to give a home to one of her stray cats. She is, as well, a closet artist and a complicated and beautiful woman, and she intrigues Mitch from the start.
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