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Kit O'Malley is a former police officer turned private eye who roams the mean streets of Melbourne, Australia. Celia, a friend of her mother, hires Kit to tail Celia's husband, Geoffrey. Geoffrey is Celia's second husband, and most of her friends are convinced that he married her for her money and the publishing empire which she inherited from her first husband. Geoffrey is certainly not a faithful husband and Kit's surveillance proves that within a few days, when she sees him with a blonde one time and a redhead the next. Just when Kit thinks that Celia no longer requires her services because Kit has the goods on Geoffrey, Celia is found dead in her garden. Was it an accident or was it a murder. Quinn, Celia's daughter, then hires Kit because Quinn believes that her stepfather Geoffrey is the guilty party. Kit is an appealing protagonist; she is honest and forthright, a good detective and an even better friend. She is witty; a little bit of a smart mouth, and definitely sarcastic. Her support group, her mother and her friends, are a quirky and interesting lot. She is her own boss, doing a job that she enjoys and she is sure she is better off than many people her age. She tells herself that it is quite a life - watching people, photographing them and then revealing their secrets to a third party. However, in this case, some of those secrets could get a girl killed. This is a witty and light-hearted book, fast reading and entertaining. It is the first in the series. The author decided that Melbourne needed its own female crime fighter and Kit fills the bill perfectly. This is the first in a planned series.
Reviewed by Lorraine Gelly, April 2003
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