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Freezer Burn (2009)

by Gayle Carline(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1590806077 (ISBN13: 9781590806074)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Echelon Press

series

Peri Minneopa Mystery

review 1: After finishing 62% of the book according to my Kindle, I just can't take it anymore. Two things I really hate are when (1) the author expects me to suspend all reality and (2) a character is so stupid that I can't believe they do anything other than hand out carts at Target. Well, Peri, whatever her last name is, a private detective, falls in the second category. She is involved with a police detective and between the two of them, they don't have enough sense to use protection every time they have sex. So, what happens, her period is late and now, at age 50(!), she won't/can't even take a pregnancy test. She won't even buy the kit at her local store! She looks at it sitting on her counter, she drops it in her toilet, she won't take the test because her lover will be... more staying at her house for a couple of days (I have no idea why the two acts are mutually exclusive) and continues to put it off -- and I'm just not interested enough to find out if she really is pregnant. She's also one of these women who won't let the bad guy get the better of her so she doesn't heed the advice of the police and, yes, gets confronted yet again by the bad guy. The murder mystery is fine but this side story of a potential pregnancy just interfered with the whole story. Like I said, I just can't take it anymore and I've put it on my "life is too short to read bad books" shelf.
review 2: Enjoyable read! When Peri Minneopa cleaning lady turned PI finds a severed hand in a client's freezer that is the basis for a good mystery. When the hand has a priceless ring on it and it is in the freezer of an eccentric Dean Martin fan who is terrified of police stations it becomes a great mystery. This is the third book I've read by Gayle Carline and it didn't disappoint. I loved the characters, the humor and once again the plot made me think. less

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