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Mitch Berger, New York film critic, has taken up residence on Big Sister Island, in Long Island Sound, part of the town of Dorset, Connecticut. Desiree Mitry, black West Point graduate, has given up her position as lieutenant, and highest ranking black woman, in the Connecticut State Trooper's homicide division, to become resident trooper in Dorset so she can study art at the famed Dorset Academy (and to be near Mitch) Dorset is fighting developers. Some of the yuppies who have moved into town want more development, a new school, new houses (but only the right kind of houses), and all that comes with a larger permanent population. Mitch prefers the old way. For example, the barter system is alive and thriving in Dorset. Mitch shops for an old lady who pays him in home baked cookies. One day, Mitch goes to the town dump to look for a bucket in which to keep kindling, and finds someone digging in one of the piles. The older man finds a gigantic metal antenna which he cannot carry home on his motorcycle, so he asks Mitch to carry it for him. He'll give Mitch a copper bucket in which to keep his kindling in exchange. Mitch agrees and is delighted to discover that he has just met "Hangtown" Frye, world famed sculptor and local recluse, who lives in the hot pink farmhouse at the end of a long road. Hangtown has two daughters by two different mothers. The older is a local schoolteacher and is happy with the status quo. The younger is a realtor and is on the other side of the development question from her father and sister. Mitch is invited to dinner, and gets to know a little about the artist and his daughters, but late the next night, a Porsche crashes and burns and one of those daughters dies with the car. Des Mitry is still a trooper with all the skills she acquired in her years in the military and in the homicide division and she is asked to help the crime squad. She and Mitch exchange information and finally do get to the bottom of the mystery. THE COLD BLUE BLOOD is the first in the series. It's not necessary to read these in order. Handler, as always, creates fascinating characters and situations.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2003
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