A J Lattimer & Co. - Michael Reidy

Expandthetable.net is a great website for book-lovers who also love good food. (Or, I suppose, for food-lovers who love good books. Whatever.) I was contacted two weeks ago by Susan Weintraub who writes the blog (and also operates Editing Unlimited offering editorial services) who wanted to review Lost Lady . In the review that resulted from our email conversations, we found some fascinating coincidences and shared interests, some of which are related in the review. I am grateful for her review (on her blog and on Amazon  and Goodreads ) and I look forward to trying her tempting recipes!

  This book was offered as a Kindle special which is a great way to discover new writers, especially with the second-hand bookshops closed. Set in Detroit and Ann Arbor – which is a refreshing change from New York, San Francisco and Chicago – Who She Was captures the attention from the start and continues its pace through the book. While plot-driven, the characters develop well and are interesting and individual. While set in the contrasting worlds of comfortable affluence and grinding poverty, drug addiction and dysfunctional families, Parkinson does not fall into stereotypes or become preachy. The hero (Sylvia Wilcox) is a former cop now private investigator. She is haunted by events of her past, but doesn’t use them as an excuse or crutch. The plotting is tight and the ending has the requisite, “I should have seen that coming!” quality about it. It is a detective story that does not deceive – it’s all there, the real clues, the false trails, the dead-ends. At no time is t...