JFK is Missing by
Liz Evans
pbk out November 98
(Oriel)
at £6.99
The second outing for Grace Smith, Liz Evans' PI on the skids. This time around Grace is hired by a blind man to find a girl he cannot describe because he has never seen her. Neither does he know her name, where she lives or works, and in fact, he's not even entirely sure that she's missing.
Grace is a game girl, though, and she needs the money. So she takes on the case and before long she's got what looks like a lead. In fact several leads, but the girl she's looking for is evasive. In the meantime she gets another job, looking for the boyfriend of a posh schoolgirl with her own mobile phone and more money than sense.
So begins a long, cosy novel, in which Grace comes face to face with a host of eccentrics who lead her this way and that, always giving the illusion that she is on the brink of solving the case, but, of course, not quite getting there until the closing chapters.
The dialogue is realistic, and the character of Grace is allowed to develop through her interplay with the other figures she meets. But there are no other developed characters in the book, just some very good thumbnail sketches
(
John Baker
- author of the Sam Turner mysteries and one of Britain's most highly acclaimed writers)
JFK is Missing by
Liz Evans