THE GODDAUGHTER CAPER
By
Melodie Campbell
Raven
Books $9.95
The
Goddaughter Caper: voted best tale by the inmates of the
Holy Cannoli Retirement Home.
Author
Campbell scores an all-star romp through Hamilton’s Hess
Village’ up-market shops to the Burlington Bay chocked full of
concrete shoes and decaying body parts and the latest
economical and quiet funeral shady venture featuring cheap,
imported pine.
The
Goddaughter Caper is funny, zingers-a-plenty, coffins,
pop-up dead bodies, and dialogue… the star of any Gino Gallo
mystery. The atmosphere this time is a wedding in six weeks
organized by her rookie cousin Nico. The new funeral service
struggles with bodies being delivered, picked up and
re-delivered to another wrong spot. Gino smiles at her
fiancé, her promise that “all that” has been left behind.
The
real challenge in a series is to keep it approachable…we know
the place, the people, but Campbell keeps it fresh…like
reading a new book with hints of the past percolating in your
memories.
The
climax is a dead heat between one-liners and quips like: “I
heard he died of heart failure.” “Two slugs from a .38 will do
that.” And the climax for the Holy Cannoli Retirement Home
goes south in a gasp of giggles.
The
Goddaughter Caper, complete with pink poinsettias, is
the best yet.
“Sonamabeech!”
Bring on another one.Don Graves, Canadian Mystery Reviews
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