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WASH AND WEAR is the fourth book in the Ed McAvoy series by Bill Stackhouse. In this story, Homer Duncan's mother dies, and he feels that he can now confess his part in a mob counterfeit operation. He asks his friend and Peekamoose Heights policewoman Heather Larrabee to meet him at the funeral home that night. When Heather arrives, Homer has just been shot and she kills his murderer in self-defense. The killer is a known mob hit man. Ed McAvoy, chief of police in Peekamoose Heights, and his colleagues have no idea why the mob would be involved with Homer, who had a job at the local bank as well as owning a print shop. When the print shop, Heather's house and car, Homer's aunt's house, and even a couple of coffins are searched it is obvious the mob needs something Homer hid from them. At first the police think it is counterfeit money, as they find two 20 dollar bills in Homer's wallet that are blank on one side. But the searching continues even after the mob knows the money has been found. The story is a thriller rather than a mystery, as we know who is doing what from the beginning. Stackhouse has a rat-a-tat style of switching from scene to seemingly unrelated scene. It is rather disconcerting at first, but builds a complex story with lots of characters. The connections between the scenes are revealed slowly. The characters are multilayered and believable. Even though some situations and characters carry over from earlier novels in the series, the book can be read quite enjoyably without having read the previous books. Recommended.
Reviewed by Mary A. Axford, December 2003
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