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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Mystery Review

Death Comes Too Soon: A Bridget O'Hern Mystery
by Patricia Harrington
ISBN-10: 1413777082
Review by Heather Froeschl

Bridget O'Hern is a non-profit management consultant, enticed by her friend Bev Tilton, to investigate some odd goings on at an art league. Donor funds can be a slippery thing. It may not sound like an exciting investigation but Bridget is good at what she does and she could use some time at the beach. Though the time she ends up spending there isn't quite what she had in mind. Staying at Beverly's Bed and Breakfast, Bridget and her dog Narvik find they are in for more excitement than they'd intended. Seaview, Oregon is a very small town, where everyone knows everyone else's business. It doesn't take long for the purpose of Bridget's visit to become common knowledge.

The situation she is there to look into becomes second string when someone falls to a tragic death during an art league fundraiser at a cliff-side beach. Now Bridget wants to know why anyone would resort to murder and is determined to find out who did it. The police chief isn't too happy that she is sticking her nose into his investigation, but since her business with the art league deals with the same people he is looking into over the death, he reluctantly listens to her findings. People talk in small towns and sometimes they can talk so much that every secret is revealed.

Patricia Harrington is an excellent mystery writer. This story flows so well from character to character, sub plot to main story that the reader will feel right in the middle of an intriguing whodunit. Clues are dropped in just the right spot, in precisely the right manner, and the reader will likely come to the same conclusion as the characters, at the perfect moment. Nothing is left out and so readers will not feel cheated out of the mystery resolution. The characters are full of life and even love, from the smallest of creatures such as a rescued cat, to the largest, like the police chief and Bridget herself.

I very much enjoyed "Death Comes Too Soon," the second Bridget O'Hern Mystery. Watch for more from this author, as you will soon become hooked on her style, characters and attention to detail.

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