Henrie O Mystery
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Death in Paradise: by Carolyn G. Hart |
| (Avon , $6.50, V) ISBN 0-380-79003-3 |
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Henrie O (Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins) has suffered in the past. What veteran newswoman would not have? But she suffered nothing like the heartache attached to the message she receives which hints that her late husband Richard did not die accidentally, but had been murdered! Add to that chill is the implication that an old "friend" had been much, much more than that to Richard, and Henrie O is devastated. With the disappearance of this old "friend's" eldest child, Henrie O goes sleuthing.
There is no one quite like Henrie O in modern-day mysteries. She is a combination of Miss Marple, Kay Scarpetta, and a Nora Roberts heroine with integrity, gumption, and moxy. Henrie O travels to the scene where she lost Richard – beautiful Hawaii – to encounter "friend" Belle and all her old suspicions of their relationship. Only when the murder of Belle's daughter and Richard is solved can the truth of that friendship be told. The characters in Death in Paradise are so masterfully portrayed that there is never a doubt in anyone's mind when the solution is presented that it is exactly as it should have been. Carolyn G. Hart is one of those writers that make the reader believe. Death in Paradise is a marvelous mystery. The characters, the setting, and the story are well-conceived and well-drawn. The reader is with Henrie O with every step, both anguishing and deducting with her. Because of the character of the murders, it has a more somber overtone than Hart's other books, but it draws you in so well you will not want it to end.
--Kay Black |
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