Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
She takes a picture that is near the body featuring her mother, Phillipa and an unknown man without telling the police what she did. Afterward she suffers from a very sore throat, the same affliction suffered by police officers who were at the crime scene. The cops believe that they breathed in something poisonous that also killed Phillipa. Sasha’s mother is recovering from a stroke in a nursing home where someone is trying to kill her by giving her penicillin. Someone is also trying to frighten Sasha away from Belen because she is asking too many questions. She doesn’t realize that the killer won’t mind adding her to the head of the list of people he wants dead.
The first book in this series earned the author an Agatha nomination, but this novel could go one step further. The support cast is made up of quirky characters that add humor to the tense storyline and make readers feel they are reading a family saga inside an amateur sleuth tale. Pari Noskin Taichert creates an atmospheric mystery that will send chills up the readers’ spines.