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Dead Floating Lovers (2009)

by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0738712655 (ISBN13: 9780738712659)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Midnight Ink

series

An Emily Kincaid Mystery

review 1: Deputy Delores (Dolly) Flynn is in trouble. A body's been found in the local lake and the dog tags her husband gave her for a wedding present are on the scene. Emily Kincaid, frustrated mystery writer and our narrator, was on the scene.But the dog tags were found on a set of female bones. Bones that Dolly thinks might be of the woman she last saw her husband with. Chet, her husband, is also a skeleton and is found nearby.Emily and Dolly will need to find out who killed Chet and the other woman before that death ripples into creating another one in the present.Characters like Emily's neighbor Harry and the local restaurateur reappear in this book as well.
review 2: BORING. (it really didn't need to be 324 pages!)Someone said Emily Kincaid was more Carolyn Keene ... more(Nancy Drew's creator) rather than Agatha Christie. Wrong. She's neither. She's just a dull tool in the mystery fiction shed.Dead Floating Lovers begins with a bone discovery at a lake of two lovers. One is, Chet, the ex-husband of Emily's sidekick, Deputy Dolly Wakowski. Dolly's a lost soul and Emily's a desperate-for-love wannabe sleuth without a clue. Both bumble along trying to piece a murder puzzle together without any unique analytical skill or passion. No joke, I was on page 197 and the case had barely progressed from the first chapter. While Buzzelli's prose is solid, unfortunately, the plot didn't hook me.Chet's affair, Dolly's background, the trip to Detroit to find Chet, the mysteriously lurking Native American men, Emily's pining for Jackson (her ex), the abusive dysfunctional household of the female "lover" etc. made Dead Floating Lovers come off as an overstuffed hodge-podge of loose ends rather than a novel with a dominating story with subplots. After a while, I didn't care what happened. less

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