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Classified As Murder (2011)

by Miranda James(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0425241572 (ISBN13: 9780425241578)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Berkley

series

Cat in the Stacks

review 1: Another solid, funny, engaging mystery from Miranda James about a Charlie, a retired cataloger, and his enormous Maine Coon cat, Diesel. Not quite cozy, not quite non-cozy - beautifully-plotted, with an expanding cast of characters and the kind of continuity that only an author who allows her characters to evolve can provide. In this outing, the body in the library is an old rare-book collector. The suspects are family members whose lack of affection for each other is topped only by the old man's disdain for them, displayed in a spot-on, poison-pen will that few people would be gutsy enough to write. My only complaint about this book (and its predecessor) is that Charlie's friend Helen continues to supply him with chocolate cake that sounds so delicious that I want a pie... morece...Highly recommended!
review 2: Perhaps slightly better than Book One of the series. The hero, Charlie Harris, is still likable and, maybe, a tiny bit more interesting this time, but still not nearly interesting enough. Once again, he is less like Sherlock Holmes than is a local Deputy Sherrif, whose jurisdiction over the crimes at hand made no sense to me. Charlie's adult son comes to live with him, and if Charlie had been the book's Holmes than perhaps the son might have been the Watson. Still, the son and his dog do their part to make the book a good one, especially for animal lovers, though not a great one. More interesting are the book's baddies, a family as disfunctional as can be, made up of weirdos, along with their creepy butler. As with the first book, some jokes thrown in would have been welcome. The author invokes Agatha Christie's name several times. If you've going to do that, you better write a darn clever book! This one's for fans of the "cozy" murder mystery only, I think. less

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