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Summary: Disappointing sequel...
Review: I was hoping for some improvement in the characterization in this second Olivia Brown novel, but it didn't happen. It's disappointing, because there is so much potential here.This time, a nanny working for one of Olivia's friends is found hanging in a tree in the backyard of her employer's house. Harry, Olivia's P.I. tenant, is asked to investigate, and they find some secrets while uncoverig the nanny's past. As in the last book, the Greenwich Village/flapper/Prohibition historical setting is well done, but it's as if the characters are just passing through, and we don't get to know them. It's a shame--a novel of lost poetntial. I doubt I'll look for another one in this series.
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Summary: Oliver! Oliver!
Review: She's back, Olivia/Oliver Brown, poet/sleuth, that is. This time she joins her bohemian friends at a rustic farmhouse for a weekend of gin, games, gossip, and sex for sex's sake. And the intrigue begins when tempers flare and the host and hostess seem to part ways. Then Olivia and current squeeze, Paulo, discover an icy apparition hanging from a tree. The frozen female is none other than the nanny of the host and hostess, Fordy and Kate Vaude. The investigation of the suicide turned murder moves to Greenwich Village as the weekend guests return there for their "normal" lives. Thus, Olivia, Harry, Mattie, Gerry, and the Hudson Dusters once again join ranks to solve things first. (They all came together in Meyers' first Olivia Brown mystery, Free Love.) Olivia waxes poetic and enthralls every male with whom she comes into contact, including the underworld character Monk Eastman who showers her with booze by the crate and roses by the dozen. Meyers' delivers this easy read and keeps the solution a secret until the end. This Oliver adventure involves characters in the Secret Service, the Pinkertons, the Black Hand, and the Ivy League poetry effete. Olivia is still not my favoriate protagonist, by any means, but Meyers' certainly sets a scene of the decadence that followed the Great War in 1920's New York.
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Summary: O.K.
Review: The protagonists have no soul, they seem caricatures - not people you would care about. So many coincidences also lead to plot being less than believable. Nice enough try, but I will wait for the library copy of the next one
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