Review of
Playing with
Poison
By Cindy
Blackburn
Reviewed by
Author Roy Murry
The one behind
the eight ball has the ability to end the game when playing straight pool or
for you Europeans pocket billiards. In Playing with Poison, the sleuth protagonist
Jessie has the ability to end the game on a positive note by calling the right
pocket.
However, she is
put behind the eight ball, figuratively speaking, when a friend’s lover
stumbles into her apartment unannounced. He says Jessie’s friend’s name and
drops dead on her couch.
The novel starts
with that shocker, but continues on, in a light hearted and humorous pace, as
Jessie and her new detective friend Captain Rye proceed to find the killer. Of
which, Jessie Hewitt, aka Adele Nightingale novelist, is one. How ridiculous,
she mentioned to Rye, who has taken her couch away as evidence.
There is a cast
of characters who wanted the dead-man dead, but only one did it. Jessie, who
won’t let the police do their job, runs them all down to the anguish of Captain
Rye. Sarcasm and sexual intrigue enter
into their conversations and non-conversations relating to the case.
Ms. Blackburn’s,
first in a series, novel pleasantly entertains as her sleuth investigates using
Jessie talk. The language of her romantic novelist character Jessie Hewitt is
witty, direct at times and sarcastically on cue. Dialogue is what propels this mystery forward.
It’s interesting,
that when Jessie misses putting the eight ball in the pocket, the crime is solved
by her and her new acquaintance Wilson Rye, at the same time, from different
points of view. The ending is not what
you’d expect. You’ll have to read it to find out.
Ms. Blackburns’
link www.cueballmysteries.com
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