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Annie Seymour, police reporter for the New Haven (Connecticut) Herald, goes out to Long Wharf to investigate the floater pulled out of the harbor. Before the cops chase away her and Wesley, the photographer, Wesley notices bee stings on the belly of the corpse. This is a much more interesting story than the one she has been assigned – a profile of the new police chief. That night, in front of the Yale Repertory Theatre, Tony Rodriguez is gunned down. Now, instead of a piece about the chief, she has to write about his murder. Annie isn't worried about her job, despite the fact that there is a rookie crime reporter on the scene. After all, her mother is sleeping with the publisher of the Herald. Her mother is a local lawyer, who is currently on holiday with her lover. She called Annie to check for a fax that should be at her house. When Annie gets to her mother's home, she finds the maid, Lourdes, hiding in the closet. Lourdes runs out when her cousin comes to pick her up. Annie checks and finds the fax in the basket, but later, her mother's home is vandalized and the fax is gone. Besides running around New Haven in her search for the story, Annie obsesses that the cub reporter drives a better car than she does, and also tries to decide which of two old boyfriends she prefers, Vinny, a PI, or Tom, a local cop who is now acting chief since the murder. I was not impressed by the book. I couldn't care less about Annie's love life. Annie is like a functional Stephanie Plum. She is hard on autos (her car is found on the dock with a dead body in the trunk and she rents a car which she promptly cracks up), and she can't make up her mind which guy to sleep with. But she does hold a steady job. And the fax does tie in with the guy with bee stings, the dead chief's wife, and the case Annie's mother is working on. None of which I cared about enough by the end to either find the first two books in the series or read the next one when it comes out.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2007
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