Review of The Body in the Bed by Jerold Last
5 stars
I reviewed a complimentary e-book copy provided in return
for my fair and impartial review.
Although “The Body in the Bed” is the first of Mr. Last’s “Roger
and Suzanne Bowman” mysteries I’ve read, now I’ll have to go pick up all the
earlier stories in the series. Roger and Suzanne, now a married couple living
in Beverly Hills, remind me in a gentle way of Nick & Nora Charles, the
fictional (and film) married detectives of the 1930’s, who in their socially
upscale and light-hearted way, solved crimes. Roger is a former homicide
detective in L.A., turned private investigator; Suzanne is a remarkably
intelligent, highly-educated, woman, now mother of a one-year-old son. Much of
their focus revolves around the city of Montevideo in Uruguay; that is how they
met, and it seems that on every trip to that city of which they are so fond, they
encounter yet another corpse. This trip, it’s in bed in their hotel room. By
the time the story is finished, Roger & Suzanne have of course solved the
crime, rooted out corruption in high places, and made their friends involved
with the case happy, or at least satisfied with results, and the reader has
enjoyed a delightful story line.
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