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Loading... The Secret Keeper (2009)by Dorien Grey
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PI Dick Hardesty listens with polite interest to his partner Jonathan's stories of his days working for 90-year-old multimillionaire Clarence Bement, helping the old man tend his garden. But when Bement is found dead, an apparent suicide, Jonathan is adamant that the old man would never have killed himself, a theory also held by Bement's grandson, Mel Fowler. When Mel hires him to investigate, Dick learns Bement's lawyer also died mysteriously barely a week before Bement. He finds himself immersed in a world of greed and familial dysfunction, searching for a missing new will, and Jonathan becomes the target for someone who believes the old man entrusted him with a secret Jonathan is not aware he has. No library descriptions found. |
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However, the writing was a little bland. I can forgive a predictable plot as that is what a lot of cozies have, but there is no reason why the dialogue can't be snappier and wittier. Also, I had problems with the descriptive aspects. Please, authors, I don't need to know exactly what the main characters are eating, wearing, etc. Feel free to cut some of that out. It's just enough to know that they are wearing clothes and that they eat food, unless it is a fashion or culinary mystery.
I did like the main characters, Dick and Jonathan, a committed couple raising Jonathan's nephew Joshua. In fact I liked how all the characters were written, very likable if a tad dull at times. Everything just needed to be taken up a notch. Sharper writing and tighter editing and this could have been really good. But it wasn't, so therefore it was just average.
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