Shelley Costa
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Private investigator Marian Warner returned to Carthage, Ohio, to help her half-sister, Joan Fleck, get what possibly the first Jesuit Mission House in what was to become Ohio designated a National Historic Landmark site.
Joan is Director of the Artifacts Authorization Agency based in Manhattan.
Time is running short because a construction company wants to create a complex on the property and is in the process of demolishing the derelict building on the site.
Words and lawsuits fly in as does murder.
In addition to the basic plot, Shelley Costa provides a lot of character building as she lays the groundwork for this series. She also has a lot of subtle, and sometimes no so subtle humor:
“Where the Department of Commerce stored some old metal desks and Joan Fleck.”
“Carthage toiled up there somewhere, hundreds of feet overhead roads, houses, utility lines, smokestacks, feuds.”
“She arched her back, checking to see whether she was still a vertebrate.”
And some observations:
“So broad and square and balanced, like the Chinese character for man.” (I actually had to look this up. She’s right!”)
“‘That’s something I don’t want to find out.’ Sometimes–she realized as she tried to read his face–the truth is the wrong answer.”“
“Get out the bucket, get out the mop. Murder is as good a time as any to do the kitchen floor.”
NO MISTAKING DEATH offers an excellent read as well as anticipation for future books.… (meer)