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Laddar... A Ton of Trouble (2002)av Lynne Murray
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Ingår i serienJosephine Fuller Mysteries (book 4)
In the fourth book of the Josephine Fuller mystery series, Jo visits the California wine country after getting a note from filmmaker and winery owner Wolf Lambert. She discovers a dead body in one of Wolf's wine barrels, and her friend Thelma, a super-sized porn star, is the prime suspect. Caught in the midst of a feud between powerful wine families in the valley, Jo also finds herself under fire from a gun-toting would-be charity client and needs to make her boyfriend understand that her involvement with the plus-size porn industry is purely innocent. Will Jo be able to dig herself out of this Ton of Trouble? Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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I expected the book to focus on the investigation into the death of the man in the barrel. Unfortunately, it’s main objective seems to be delving into the pornographic movie industry. While the murder eventually does get solved, it is by confession, not by detective work. The investigation of the organization was a bit better, but not much.
As the book makes very clear from the beginning, Jo Fuller is a large woman who is very comfortable in her own body. Several other characters are also happily living within their own large frames. I have read many books where the main character was not white, not Christian, not straight, or who had mental problems. In none of them was their situation (in this case fatness) mentioned several times in every chapter. It made me feel that the author was pandering to a specific target audience and didn’t know when enough was enough. Her points that “When a woman Thelma’s size makes an adult film, it makes a different kind of statement....Many people seem to assume that fat people are asexual” are important but can get lost in the overkill.
Author Lynne Murray briefly raises some other issues: gentrification of neighborhoods, how people see women (“When we see a naked woman, we look for her figure flaws.”)
The book was well-constructed and I liked most of the characters. Murray has a gift of words (“The October weather was sunny–Indian summer in San Francisco–but I had brought my own fog of yearning.”) and a subtle sense of humor (“Was I making a fool of myself over a man? Probably. Hey, everyone needs a hobby.” “”Raoul, the cat who could say his own name.”)
There were also a few inconsistencies: In one place two characters driving separate cars are briefly in the same car.
Had there been more information about the detective work and an attempt to treat peoples’ body side as an observation rather than a battering ram, I would gladly have given a higher rating.
This book was a free Amazon download. ( )