Die Decorator Die
Franklin H. Levy
3 Out of 5
A Poor Attempt at Witty Repartee
I don’t know if Levy was trying to impress himself or the reader, but he failed miserably. Too many one-liners that fell flat and took the reader away from what was supposed to be a mystery with an over abundance of characters that really had very little to do with moving the story forward. Someone needed to rein in this author, just wish it would have been before I read this book.
The story is told from the perspective of Buzz Levine a paunchy middle aged attorney and his apparently hot, though not domesticated, interior designer wife. They run in higher society and seem to get by doing very little actual work.
When two bodies show up in the Annual Boston Designer Show House fingers are pointed and apparently it’s up to said paunchy attorney to save the day and bring down the murder and still pick up a pepperoni pizza for dinner.
Apparently, this is the first in a series, but one was enough for me.
Amazon Review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3VY80I5QQZICL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Nancy
2 comments:
You are so right about this book. As a Boston based decorator, I really wanted to like it. But it was not funny, the timeline was off and he got the geography of the city off! Bad all the way round!
He was off about being a lawyer too.
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