Elected for Death

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Summary: Murder during the Silly Season
Review: Jed is running for the Hancock town council, and the whole Henshaw clan is stressed out. Susan is spending time trying to be the perfect political wife amid vicious items planted in the local media about Jed, and the total disintigration of the candidate for mayor's wife. The big issue is the Landmark Commission's mission to control every building in town built before 1939. The third party candidate for mayor, Ivan Deakin, announces that he has a solution for everything and will announce it at a press conference. Unfortunately, he drops dead at the podium before he can make his speech. All the candidates, their families, and the police chief's new girlfriend seem to be suspects.

Wolzien seems to have captured the life of a candidate and his family very accurately in this novel. One is surprised that there aren't more murders during the election season. In any case, they wouldn't be as amusing as this one.