Marcia MullerThe Cheshire Cat's EyeChristina says:
Jake Kauffmann asked his old friend private investigator Sharon McCone to meet him in an empty house to witness something. But she is an hour late because she was held up in a meeting and only stumbles over Jake's dead body. Somebody wanted to make it look as if the house painter died accidentally, only the killer was not very good at that. Sharon talks Jake's employer, contractor David Wintringham, who restores Victorian mansions in a run-down San Francisco neighborhood, to hire her to find out who killed Jake. Soon she realizes that she is not investigating one murder but two. Years ago Wintringham's father was killed in the same house, allegedly by a robber. The connection seems to be a precious tiffany lamp and there are suspects galore. The third book of the Sharon McCone series is a straightforward mystery of the whodunnit-type. You can read it quickly, guess with McCone at whom the killer is and learn something about the historical mansions of San Francisco. It's not a very complex or subtle story, but makes for a few hours of good reading. |
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Last changes: 02-09-03 Copyright 2000 Christina Gross & Monika Hübner |
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