While reading this engaging little mystery, I suffered, and I do mean suffered, from my first case of COVID. It was nice to have such a fun diversion. I'm still in the throes of it, but can at least function and while I'm confined to home, I'm determined to keep up with this documentation.
Like the first two in the series which I read in the 80s, I had practically no memory of this story. It was like reading it for the first time, although Jonah and Henry are familiar characters. In this installment in Kinsey's life, a young man named Bobby hires her to find out who tried to murder him. And soon after getting to know and like him, he is murdered. The setting is more enjoyable than most, because it turns out that Bobby's family is RICH, and some of the action takes place in his beautiful home.
All is not pretty in the family, however, and the scenes with Bobby's stepsister, Kitty, are very depressing. Yet they are real, as she suffers from anorexia and drug addiction. The level of dysfunction in the family is high, and Kinsey's feelings of shock and dismay are relatable.
A side story is a bittersweet one, where Henry has fallen for a very attractive and hilariously described (by Kinsey, of course) shyster. It's satisfying that Kinsey caught her and got Henry's money back, but the disappointment in Henry is touching. All in all, a good diversion, good laughs, and not too much gore.
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