Murderers Prefer Blondes

The Good: Paige and her neighbor Abby are fun characters to read. There's some decent humor mixed in with a great 1950's setting. The author does a great job setting the mood and tone of the time for working women. A light, easy read.

The Bad: The mystery was sort of obvious once readers were introduced to the possible suspects. While I enjoyed the humorous tone, I actually found myself wishing things in the book were viewed a little more seriously. There was a flippant feeling that took away from the urgency of the mystery.

Young Korean War widow, Paige Turner, works at Daring Detective magazine as a gofer and longs to be a writer, but in the sexist 1950's she has no chance to go more than make coffee and fend off groping. She learns that a model for the magazine was murdered and she investigate along with her beatnic artist Jewish neighbor.

First in the series of Paige Turner mysteries. Matetsky does a great job of evoking period and conveying the limitations women experienced when they were on their own in the early 1950s.