Linda Berry, author of the popular mystery novel Death and the Icebox (a Denver Post bestseller), brings curious detective Trudy Roundtree back for more snooping and sleuthing into a web of tangled family trees, hidden motives, and walking sticks in her new novel, Death and the Walking Stick. When Althea Boatright dies alone in her locked room, it looks like the natural death of a sickly old woman, but one of her friends thinks there's something suspicious about based on Althea's walking stick. Since this friend is a ...
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Linda Berry, author of the popular mystery novel Death and the Icebox (a Denver Post bestseller), brings curious detective Trudy Roundtree back for more snooping and sleuthing into a web of tangled family trees, hidden motives, and walking sticks in her new novel, Death and the Walking Stick. When Althea Boatright dies alone in her locked room, it looks like the natural death of a sickly old woman, but one of her friends thinks there's something suspicious about based on Althea's walking stick. Since this friend is a friend of Lulu Huckabee, the mother of Henry Huckabee, the Chief of Police in Ogeechee, Georgia, it must be investigated. Hen assigns his cousin, officer Trudy Roundtree, to look into it. Trudy becomes convinced there are some things that need to be explained about Althea's death. As Trudy investigates, she finds several people with grudges against the victim -- there are even tangled threads that lead back into Althea's youth, bringing into question the paternity of her son, and bringing into prominence a flirtatious old gentleman with eyes for Lulu and a collection of walking sticks. The outcome -- and the evidence a police investigation needs -- hinges on a stakeout of the Boatright house which reveals who could have gotten into Althea's room and gotten away with the wrong walking stick. Linda Berry lives in Aurora, Colorado.
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4.5 Stars: Walking sticks, murder and small town gossip
Linda Berry's DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK is a light enjoyable small town mystery read with a fun progressive female sleuth that will bring laughs along with the fun puzzle of the murder mystery itself.
No one in the small town of Ogeechee, Georgia likes Althea Boatright! Epitaphs like turkey buzzard are more than fitting. The final straw finally came. With her aging eyesight and her little dog tangled at her feet causing a distraction, the cantankerous, annoying Althea runs down a pedestrian with her car. Her latest escapade finally allows police officer Trudy Roundtree to confiscate Althea's license. This should make the whole town relieved but instead, Althea turns up dead in her own home. Could this be an accident? Lulu, Martha and Ellen think Althea was murdered when a walking stick is discovered at the scene --- a walking stick that does not belong to Althea. Trudy and the bridge club ladies investigate as more and more secrets of Althea's life are uncovered, secrets that might have provoked murder.
In DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK, Linda Berry mixes a the small town southern atmosphere with a progressive, feminist sleuth who has both compassion and humor. Trudy Roundtree captures the southern way of life with a sense of gentleness in her vision of others even as she remains partially separate. Trudy Roundtree makes fun of people and the town yet her humor is never mean but born from a love of Ogeechee and its residents. Rather than taking offense, Southern readers are more likely to smile and relocated Southerners, like myself, are likely to feel a tad homesick. The mystery itself is a fun, light read with some surprises as small town gossip and small town newspaper stories come to the surface, sometimes in conflict. DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK delves into the past and past secrets, creating a multi-dimensional history for her characters and the setting. Although not a cold case mystery like her DEATH AND THE ICEBOX, DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK will appeal to fans of cold case mysteries. Linda Berry's DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK is a wonderful folksy light mystery read laced with gentle humor.
