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For those of you who like to read mysteries set in our conference
cities, here's a new book that takes place in Pasadena.
Amy Ciccone
Univ. of Southern Cal
From Stop You're Killing Me (http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/G_Authors/Greaves_Chuck.html)
Chuck
Greaves
Hush Money (Minotaur 2012) introduces Jack
MacTaggart, a junior lawyer with Henley & Hargrove, the oldest
and snobbiest law firm in Pasadena, California. When socialite
Sydney Everett’s champion show-jumper Hush Puppy dies unexpectedly,
Jack is assigned the insurance claim. The vet doesn’t find any sign
of trauma and gives a verdict of cardiac failure, but the insurance
company suspects foul play. Jack finds the brittle and calculating
Sydney Everett distasteful, but is instantly attracted to her stable
manager, Tara Flynn, who sincerely mourns Hush Puppy’s death. Tara,
a grand prix equestrian competitor, helps Jack understand the
complex world of professional show-jumping and provides a
disconcerting riding lesson to demonstrate the physical strength
needed by the riders. Jack’s investigation into Sydney’s stables
uncovers high monthly payments that look like blackmail, and then
the necropsy on Hush Puppy turns up a parasitic infection that
appears to have been intentional. A sudden death that just could be
murder adds to the tension, and Jack fears that he might be the next
victim. Jack is an engaging narrator, his quips balanced by true
empathy for those he feels are deserving of help. His other client
is Victor Tazerian, a trash collector whose insurance company
refuses to pay for a medical procedure that might cure his leukemia.
The procedure requires harvesting Victor’s bone marrow while his
leukemia is in remission, which the insurance company claims is an
unnecessary procedure since Victor is not sick while in remission.
The quirks and tricks of legal negotiations are presented with humor
in this fast-paced legal thriller, hopefully the first in a series.
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