BOOK REVIEW/MYSTERIES: FIVE STAR Edition

Life gets more complicated when he accompanies [Leslie] to a dark corner of the theater balcony -- she wants to spy on rival companies -- and [Townsend Reeves] sees the choreographer of Leslie's company aiming a gun at the lead dancer on stage. Hours later, that same dancer is found dead in his...

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Published in:Pittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978) Pa. 1978), 1994
Main Author: Robert Croan, Post-Gazette Music Critic
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bohannon, Hack
Hansen, Joseph
Reeves, Townsend
Spring, Michelle
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Summary:Life gets more complicated when he accompanies [Leslie] to a dark corner of the theater balcony -- she wants to spy on rival companies -- and [Townsend Reeves] sees the choreographer of Leslie's company aiming a gun at the lead dancer on stage. Hours later, that same dancer is found dead in his hotel room. But Townsend has his wife's skepticism to contend with, and that's even meaner than the resistance he meets from the local police. [Joseph Hansen], creator of the superb David Brandstetter mysteries, killed off his popular gay West Coast sleuth after 12 novels in "A Country of Old Men." In this collection of short stories, Hansen introduces a rugged California cowboy called Hack Bohannon -- an ex-sheriff whose wife has taken to drugs and lies in a mental hospital, the victim of a brutal rape. This plot concerns the killing of Monica, a beautiful young academic, who is about to become a third owner of a weekend cottage with [Laura] and her friend, Helen. Monica is likable, if rather nervous with delusions of being stalked. When Laura finds Monica's badly beaten body, she begins an investigation which leads her through the obviously familiar halls of academia.
ISSN:1068-624X