Published: Sep. 25, 2009
Words: 45,768 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452304892

Description

It’s another typical day in the life of Ms. Aggie Underhill… Flying with her best friend Betty to Palm Springs, staying with an eccentric interior designer, the fish-nabbing of a $200,000 fish, a kidnapping of an actress and lastly a murder. Naturally curious, Aggie can’t help but be nosy and takes detective matters into her own hands.

Tags

mystery, california, woman sleuth, series, cozy, palm springs, aggie underhill, amature sleuth

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Review by: Sharon E. Cathcart on Aug. 14, 2011 :
I wanted to like this book far more than I did. I found myself distracted by homophone problems ("chow" where "ciao" is meant, "b-line" for "beeline" and numerous other examples) and redundancies (e.g., "camouflage cammies").

That's really too bad, because I was so excited about reading it. As someone who has visited Palm Springs on many occasions, I recognized sites that went unnamed by Hollstein. It did make it fun to puzzle out which restaurants or hotels she was talking about.

The author has a good premise, with an actress being abducted in the first chapter and a costly tropical fish taken and held for ransom. Friends Aggie and Betty are visiting Palm Springs from England and get entangled in both cases. The eventual revelation of "whodunnit" was lackluster and the loose ends were tied up in a hurried and unrelated fashion. There was a lot of potential in the tale; I just wish it had been handled with more aplomb.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: bluezircon68 on July 19, 2011 :
Read it 1 sitting. Couldn't put it down.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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