"Charming amateur sleuth"
When Skye Denison was the valedictorian of her graduating
high school class, she made an inflammatory speech. She
implied that she was too good for her backwater town and
couldn't wait to start the good life in a big city. Two
years ago, Skye returned home, broke, out of work and
without a place to hang her hat. Eating crow, she accepted
a position as the district school psychologist thanks to
the influence of her Uncle Charles. Since she moved back, she solved two murder cases and lost
two boyfriends (the sheriff and the coroner) because she
refused to heed their advice and quit sleuthing. Murder is
the last thing on her mind when she enters the high school
gym and finds the body of a dead girl. The victim is the
most beautiful and popular girl in school, one who was
going to play Sleeping Beauty in the school play. When it
becomes obvious the girl was murdered, Skye starts snooping
once again determined that she, as an insider of the school
system, could find out things the police can't obtain. Denise Swanson has written another charming amateur sleuth
tale that takes the readers into the complete and often
vicious world of beauty pageants. There are so many
suspects who would have liked to see the victim dead that
the protagonist is working double time checking out all the
suspects. MURDER OF A SLEEPING BEAUTY is a winner by
anyone's standards. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted March 5, 2002
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