Annette Meyers

This is a light and frothy mystery novel. I liked it enough because finally, a here is a mystery where the dead people are not beautiful sluts who had it coming (hear that, Presumed Innocent? Turning Angel? 400 other crime-fiction-mystery-novels-whose-titles-I-can't-remember?) Finally, a mystery solver who is a slut herself, and is not ashamed, embarassed, or conflicted about it at all. I have to read more of this, even I would have liked a bit more gravity in the story or the telling of it.

Hazel and Leslie Watson had been visiting Peepsie, a rich old lady with Alzheimer's, just before she supposedly jumped to her death from her 20th-floor apartment. Leslie enlists the aid of an ambitious journalist to find the person she suspects pushed Peepsie from her roof. Ms Meyers built a large cast of characters some I liked, some I hated. And, at times the story bogged down with too much description of New York and needless dialogue. But no gratuitous sex scenes for filler. Altogether show more an interesting murder which I enjoyed. show less

Probably the best of the series, but it might be that I like it because of the dance aspects.

A decent mystery with well developed characters. I wish there was a third. I'm curious to see how Oliva grows as a character.