Thursday, February 10, 2011

DEATH ON THE D-LIST by Nancy Grace ***

Murder-lite. Lots of wealthy scantily clad tv stars being murdered by the pool or whatever with Hailey Dean somehow on the case. She was a lawyer, lost a boyfriend to murder in the past, is now a therapist? From lawyer to therapist, now cop? She recently returned to NY after a year in Atlanta where she phone/Skype therap-ied her clients. Sounds a little strange to me but what do I know.

There's not a whole lot of investigation going on, mostly star gossip, money, tv interviews, clothing, back stabbing with a background of stars being shot in the head. Stars with names reminiscent of well known tv stars. However many times it's written in the book how mindless it is for people to be desiring high end clothing, shoes, popularity etc writer is writing/focusing on it. Contradiction?

On page 168 Hailey begins an autopsy with some cop then on page 169...where are we now? She's reading a newspaper no location mentioned. Huh?

Not to be too picky but this happens more than once: flanking him there were two police officers on either side. Redundant?

Not much in the way of mystery, no questioning of anyone, no real evidence aside from some paint chip on a bullet fragment, things just appear as answers without any real work involved and our heroine stumbles into the murderer accidently. Case closed! Light hearted superficial reading. Entertainment. NTTAWWT.

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