A Mysterious Review of Ed, Not Eddie by Max Everhart. An Eli Sharpe Mystery.
Review summary: There is so much misdirection in this murder mystery that even when all is said and done, nothing seems to be settled. An epilogue, which no doubt was written to help clarify things, does little to do so. Despite a few elements worth praising, this is a swing and a miss, to use an obvious baseball metaphor. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Ed, Not Eddie
Max Everhart
An Eli Sharpe Mystery
Camel Press (April 2016)
Publisher synopsis: Ed Leviner is a hot prospect for the Major Leagues, a young pitcher who’s broken every record. She’s also a tough young woman who hates to be called Eddie. And someone in the idyllic Southern town of Cook, South Carolina, has threatened to kill her if she pitches in Wednesday’s game. It’s Sunday morning, which doesn’t give private eye and ex-ballplayer Eli Sharpe much time to identify the source of these threats.
Ed has lots of admirers but few friends and several enemies and detractors in this conservative community. Then there’s her feuding divorced parents, her spurned tutor, a disgraced coach turned evangelical minister, and the local sheriff, a bully whose son is one of Ed’s discarded boyfriends. Though local law enforcement is oddly unhelpful, Eli is not alone in his search for answers. The TV news team covering the protests is headed up a beautiful anchorwoman from Eli’s past. Is she on his side or not?
As usual, Eli is busy raising hackles in a town where there’s more than one mad dog in disguise.
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