"What a way to have a honeymoon"
Even on their honeymoon in romantic and picturesque San
Francisco, Ann Arbor police Lieutenant Karl Genesko and his
new bride Anneke Haagen cannot get away from murder. The
newlyweds are eating brunch at the trendy bistro Maize and
Blue when a food researcher at Anneke's table suddenly
keels over and dies. Somebody put poison in the deceased's
tomato juice and since Karl is on the scene when the death
took place, he is called by his San Francisco counterpart
to explore the Ann Arbor connection. Most of the people sitting at the table where the victim
was killed had some kind of tie to Ann Arbor. The victim,
Michigan graduate Lindsay Summers, was obsessive about
food. She wanted legislation passed to force people to eat
right and she had the ear of a Michigan Congressman who
jumped on her bandwagon and made it an issue. Karl, Anneka
and the SFPD work together to find the killer but in the
end it is Zoe, Anneka's friend at the university who risks
her life to solve the case. In this long running series, Susan Holtzer has a knack of
creating characters that will appeal to her audience
ensuring that they will want to read all forthcoming
books. BETTER THAN SEX is a who-done-it with a lot of
humor intertwined into the story line, thus ensuring that
the tension never becomes unbearable. The great aspect of
this series is that Ms. Holtzer makes us believe that
passionate love can be found at fifty as easily as it can
at twenty-five. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 6, 2001
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