Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Worthy of Both the Edgar and Agatha Awards:

In this 12th installment of the Jane Lawless mystery series, the opening prologue begins with a gripping kidnapping that takes place on Halloween in 1972. The circumstances of that prologue don't connect up for some time, but the shadow of the kidnapping hangs over the events that follow. In the present day, Jane Lawless is called to the location of a wedding her staff is catering. The guests are behaving oddly, and it quickly becomes clear that they've been poisoned with something hallucinogenic. The... more info

I had trouble following it:

I had to force myself to finish this book. And that's a real shame; I started this story as a die-hard fan of the Jane Lawless series.

Bad things happen to greedy, selfish people here. Frankly, by the time the initial "mystery" from Chapter 1 was explained/revealed it was really too late for me.
I'm truly hoping that part of the problem was an aberration.

The flashbacks detracted from the story. I would have preferred Jimmy's story to have been presented as one prologue than as several short pieces... more info

INTIMATE GHOST deserves a Lambda Award consideration.:

In Evergreen High School in Minneapolis, student Cullen Hegg pulls out a gun in the middle of a history class but his teacher Alden Clifford manages to talk the sophomore into letting the rest of the students leave. When it's just the two of them, Alden tries to talk Cullen out of using the gun but the despondent boy kills himself. The teacher is lauded by the media, the faculty and the other students from preventing even more bloodshed, but Alden doesn't think of himself as a hero and avoids... more info

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