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Dead on My Feet: A Claire Maxwell Mystery (Claire Maxwell Mysteries)

Dead on My Feet: A Claire Maxwell Mystery (Claire Maxwell Mysteries)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "WHATABOOKWHATABOOKWHATABOOKWHATABOOKWHATABOOK!!!
Review: "Dead On My Feet" is the best book I have read in years. Authoress Lynn Wingert does a superb job of capturing the readers attention and holding it throughout the entire book. It is plum-full of mystery, whodoneit, and wit. Wingert is such a promising authoress, I plan on starting my own Wingert/Clair Maxwell library of my own. This book is definately a MUST READ for everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TWO THUMBS UP!
Review: "Dead On My Feet" is the best book I have read in years. Authoress Lynn Wingert does a superb job of capturing the readers attention and holding it throughout the entire book. It is plum-full of mystery, whodoneit, and wit. Wingert is such a promising authoress, I plan on starting my own Wingert/Clair Maxwell library of my own. This book is definately a MUST READ for everyone.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good first effort
Review: All Claire wanted to do was putter in her garden and feed hot dogs to her German shepherd. The dead man who rang her doorbell apparently spoiled all plans of leisure.

So begins the debut of a new series by Lynn Wingert starring amateur sleuth Claire Maxwell, a freelance medical writer who appears to be more interested in sticking her nose in other people's business than in the books she researches for her articles. Of course, when a wealthy local banker expires at her front door just as the chime fades, the mystery of his death does become Claire's business. A strange one, too, since Claire never knew the man when he was alive.

Despite the objections of the local fuzz, who is also Claire's brother (and who really listens to the police and/or family in these kinds of stories, anyway?), Claire grills the dead man's family and aquaintances, finding legitmate motives for everybody but unable to single out anybody as the killer. Just when Claire starts to reconsider to keep her freelancing expertise to medical journals, however, a few surprise twists toward the end of the story lead Claire (and the readers) to a plausible, unusual conclusion.

Dead on My Feet is a good first effort for Wingert, who is scheduled (according to her bio) to release two more installments featuring Claire Maxwell. Claire likes to joke with her readers, maintains an awful diet, and appears almost childlike in her curiosity. Think Nancy Drew crossed with Rhoda Morgenstern. It is my hope, though, that Dead's successors provide more story than this first outing -- at only 113 pages, Dead on My Feet may come off to some as too brief, making perhaps a better short story.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TWO THUMBS UP!
Review: Wingert really captures the reader's attention with her sharp wit, plot twists, and bits of humor throughout the book. Not only did I enjoy reading it, but I passed it on to my sister as well! The characters are smartly written and the storyline surprised me with every page! If you want a good book to keep you in suspense and make you laugh at the same time, I recommend "Dead on My Feet" by Ms. Wingert. She's going to be on her way up with this series of mystery novels; I guarantee it.


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