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Green-Eyed Lady: A Mystery (2013)

by Chuck Greaves(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250005248 (ISBN13: 9781250005243)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Jack MacTaggart

review 1: I hadn't read the first book, but didn't have a problem with the character set up after I understood there was a character switch between the first and second chapters. The book starts off with a man helping a woman, I initially thought this was MacTaggart too, but it was his client. After I got that straight, I was good to go. Lots of twists and turns that I didn't see coming. While there were light points, I didn't really find the book humorous at all.I give this a 2 star rating (maybe 2.5) because I liked the story and not being able to tell whodunnit, but the characters weren't that engaging for me and I don't want to rush out and get the first book which is more indicative of a 3 to 5 star review.
review 2: Jack MacTaggart, attorney, is hired to defend... more Senatorial candidate Warren Burkett when he is accused of stealing a valuable piece of art, under bizarre circumstances. The ultimate goal is to get the election back on track. Marta "Mayday" Suarez is his law partner; Bernadette Catalano is their secretary. They hook up with Officer Regan Fife of the Sierra Madre Police Department, and she unofficially helps them out.Warren Burkett and his opponent in the Senatorial campaign, Larry Archer are polar opposites. Archer's politics are anti-tax, anti-union, and anti-regulation. Burkett's leanings are much more to the left. To make it more complicated, Archer's wife has ties to the art world and her brother is connected to the mafia.From the start, I enjoyed the story. I am not sure how realistic it is. But fiction is not always supposed to mirror the real world, and in this case, any niggles I had were minor. I enjoyed being along for the ride. I liked the ending, especially some of the surprises along the way.The story is told in the first person by a very likeable narrator. There was just enough tension between the people MacTaggart works with to make it believable; they are all sterling individuals, but not too goody goody.Plus he has a nice dog.The action in this book goes back and forth between Sierra Madre and Santa Barbara, California. Which was a bonus for me. If Greaves got Sierra Madre and other L.A. County locations down as well as he did Santa Barbara and surrounding areas, he did a really good job with the setting and atmosphere. The author practiced law in the L.A. area for many years.I liked this book well enough to seek out the first in the series, Hush Money. That book has been nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel, which is quite an honor. less

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