- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Bantam USA; First THUS edition (30 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553575864
- ISBN-13: 978-0553575866
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,524,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thirty-seven year old journalist, Connor Westphal, has relocated from San Francisco to Flat Skunk, a mining-turned-tourist town in the foothills of the Sierras, to start up her own weekly paper. Suddenly, dead bodies begin turning up in the most unusual places, setting Connor on a hunt for a killer. You might say Connor has a sixth sense when it comes to investigating...but she only has four of the usual five senses. Connor Westphal is deaf. But being hearing impaired doesn't stop Connor from pursuing the murderer. Without sound to distract her, she attends to subtleties that others overlook and ultimately unravels the mystery.
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Penny Warner's DEAD BODY LANGUAGE features unconventional female sleuth Connor Westphal . . . What raises the book above the ordinary is its heroine, deaf since an attack of meningitis when she was four. Connor's disability doesn't keep her down one bit. From Connor we learn about lip reading, sign language grammar and the different writing styles used on the TTY. The novel is enlivened by some nice twists, an unexpected villain, a harrowing mortuary scene, its Gold Country locale and fascinating perspective on a little known subculture.
Penny Warner's DEAD BODY LANGUAGE features unconventional female sleuth Connor Westphal . . . What raises the book above the ordinary is its heroine, deaf since an attack of meningitis when she was four. Connor's disability doesn't keep her down one bit. From Connor we learn about lip reading, sign language grammar and the different writing styles used on the TTY. The novel is enlivened by some nice twists, an unexpected villain, a harrowing mortuary scene, its Gold Country locale and fascinating perspective on a little known subculture.
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Format:Paperback
It was a wonderful surprise to discover Dead Body Language when it first came out, because we finally see a main deaf character. Reading this book, the author really gives the reader a glimpse of what it is like to be deaf. I liked the scene where Connor Westphal was trying to lipread Lacy Penzance. The plot was great and kept me guessing until the very end!
Format:Paperback
The main character, Connor, is very likeable, even though she gets herself in some pretty amazing situatiions; a very brave young woman! I enjoy the setting; California's Gold Rush country. The mystery, of course, is not solved, until the end and,rightfully,kept me guessing all along! It is a fairly short book that I did not want to end!
Format:Paperback
If the Mystery Writers of America had an award for "Most Unusual," Penny Warner's "Dead Body Language" is a sure-fire candidate. From the very first sentence, Warner's Connor Westphal captivates us with her unique blend of humor, mystique, and just plain weirdness: "I licked the tip of my murder weapon, then hesitantly sipped my mug of coffee as if it were strychnine." Not to worry--Connor's one of the good guys. Her "murder weapon" is a pencil (she's devising a mystery puzzle for her weekly newspaper) and the only thing wrong with her coffee is that it's a poor substitute for her beverage of choice, a Starbuck's mocha.
Connor lives in Flat Skunk, an old gold mining town near Sacramento. The town's inhabitants are engagingly eccentric--the cast of characters includes "Sluice" Jackson (a crazy old prospector), Celeste Camborne (a "grief counselor" for the Memory Kingdom, a local mortuary chain), and Beau Pascal (proprietor of the Mark Twain Slept Here Inn).
The plot of "Dead Body Language" is well-constructed and entertaining. When Lacy Penzance, a prominent citizen of Flat Skunk, turns up dead in the town cemetery, Connor decides to do a little digging around to uncover the truth. Connor's detecting skills are even more impressive when we consider that she is deaf.
All in all, "Dead Body Language" is well-paced and nicely balanced between character development and action. Warner intersperses humorous comments and situations throughout the novel, preventing it from becoming dreary or overly serious. "Dead Body Language" is definitely worth a read!
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CONNOR IS A GREAT ADDITION TO THE GENRE!
CONNOR TOOK OVER HER GRANDFATHER'S NEWSPAPER IN FLAT SKUNK. SHE REPORTS THE NEWS, MAKES UP LOCKED-ROOM-MYSTERIES AND REFURBISHESHER DINER-HOME AND OLD CHEVY. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 1998
A very special mystery that also serves as social commentary
Connor Westphal left the fast paced city lifestyle of San Francisco to
move to the restored mining town of Flat Skunk. Read more
move to the restored mining town of Flat Skunk. Read more
Published on 23 April 1997
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