The George Elliott Murders by Edith Skom
The premise sounded interesting: An English professor uses literature to help solve crimes. The execution didn't quite live up to my expectations.
Professor Beth Austin flees the snowy Midwest for a luxury resort in Hawaii over break. She meets several characters/suspects during a tennis match.
Then the bodies start piling up. First, the woman in a neighboring room jumps/falls from her balcony. Then the tennis pro is murdered. Then one of her other new acquaintances is found dead. Beth decides to trust 2 of her new acquaintances to help solve the murders. (I'm still not sure why she decided they were trustworthy.)
The second half of the book, when the clues start becoming more obvious and the murders are actually solved, wasn't bad. But the first half kind of dragged. And it was very hard to keep all those characters--and all their nicknames--straight.
Professor Beth Austin flees the snowy Midwest for a luxury resort in Hawaii over break. She meets several characters/suspects during a tennis match.
Then the bodies start piling up. First, the woman in a neighboring room jumps/falls from her balcony. Then the tennis pro is murdered. Then one of her other new acquaintances is found dead. Beth decides to trust 2 of her new acquaintances to help solve the murders. (I'm still not sure why she decided they were trustworthy.)
The second half of the book, when the clues start becoming more obvious and the murders are actually solved, wasn't bad. But the first half kind of dragged. And it was very hard to keep all those characters--and all their nicknames--straight.
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