James Yaffe (1927–2017)

reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Jane Marple. Mom solves the murders by listening and deducting and understanding human nature. Not sure I agreed with her final analysis of the case....

I thought that this sounded like fun - a murder mystery that wasn't so dark that an elderly woman couldn't solve it behind the scenes with logic. I love logic.

Yes, it was that. But somehow it was just 'meh'.

Description of American Jewish life today. Emphasis is on candid contradictions, with a rich sense of the endowments and neuroses of this emphatically idiosyncratic tribe.

"Everyone talks under the influence of Mom's chicken pot pie - especially her son Dave, an investigator with the public defender's office in Mesa Grande, Colorado. Discussing cases with Mom has become routine: her logic and rat-trap brain have helped him solve as many murders out west as back in the Bronx.
Amidst the heat of a tight political race, Edna Pulaski, a local madam, is murdered. The prime suspect is a homeless derelict who lives on the street nearby. But Mom's got a nose for show more wrong-doing in the corridors of power - and so does the killer." - Worldwide library jacket notes.
Average, not very memorable. I haven't read any more of this series. show less