- Mass Market Paperback: 277 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (1 Jun 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671643371
- ISBN-13: 978-0671643379
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
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When rich matriarch MaryDell Paine beseeches Port Frederick Civic Foundation director Jenny Cain to fund a recreation hall for released mental patients (such as MaryDell's brother), Jenny and her fired but not-yet-gone assistant Derek view the proposed site and canvass the neighbors for their opinion of it. When Jenny leaves, Derek innocently pockets the key, then uses it to let a pair of street people in for the night to escape the cold. In the morning, foul-mouthed neighbor Rodney Gardner lies butchered on the floor; there's a bizarre message on the blackboard from someone signed MOB; and Derek is missing (he later turns up sharing an expensive condo with Rodney's Lolita-ish wife Sammie). Anxious to solve the murder before the lecherous owner sells the building to the competitive bidder, Jenny consults her psychiatrist chum Marsha; then pries again among the neighbors, including anti-rec-hall Perry Yates, who had an affair with Sammie while he was married to free-wheeling artist Marianne. Soon another of the neighbors, who collects pig replicas and spouts locked-ward lingo, is found hanged; and MaryDell Paine's brother is fleeing to the next county in a mink coat and a Cadillac. Whodunit and why? A mental patient? A concerned neighbor? A lover? A greedy realtor? Jenny finds out in face-to-face confrontation, which ends in a hail of detective bullets. Peppy Jenny is a wonderfully unsaccharine heroine, whose sardonic asides are delightful, but the other characters could have used more fleshing out. Still, a sprightly mix of social issues and amateur detection-and a guaranteed pleasure for fans of the cozy mystery. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher--only to uncover clues that put her squarely in the sights of a cold-blooded murderer! "An outstanding mystery series that just keeps getting better".--ALA Booklist.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Interesting, but a little chaotic
12 Aug 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
While the writing style was good and the plot was interesting, it was easy to imagine that this book had been written just a little too quickly. I was suprised by some of the plot holes and obviousnesses given the general high quality of the writing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A decent little mystery
21 Aug 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This novel is set in small-town New England and features Jenny Cain, the woman in charge of the areas philanthropical foundation (very much like Indianapolis' Lilly Foundation) that makes investments and gives grants for the public good. The foundation is asked to buy a building so that it can be converted into a recreation/meeting hall for the mentally ill of the community - a place where they can get out of the cold and still be welcome. But, things quickly get complicated when people start dying in and around the building and a mentally ill man is the main suspect.
The characters are believable, the book is well-paced and the killer is a surprise (I thought I had it figured out for about half the book, but ... I was wrong).
The characters are believable, the book is well-paced and the killer is a surprise (I thought I had it figured out for about half the book, but ... I was wrong).
a social services-oriented mystery
4 May 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What I like about Nancy Pickard is that she writes more than a mystery. She does a nice job here with the social services world. It is the balance between that world and the "crime fiction" that I was expecting that drew me in. She does a great job with settings -- most commonly in the few Jenny Cain books I've read, with the cold, dreary New England winters. She handles issues of mental illness in an adept and realistic fashion, without getting too heavy or losing the pacing that a mystery should hvae.
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