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Small Towns Can Be Murder
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Author:
Shelton, Connie
Narrator:
Evans, Lynda
Series:
Charlie Parker mysteries volume 0004
Published:
Books in Motion 2011
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Charlie Parker is asked to look into a controversial series of miscarriages in a small town in New Mexico that's heavily populated by Mexicans. The town has one medical clinic. Her first assumption is to look for some type of environmental problem such as pesticides but that draws a blank. Then she shifts her suspicions onto the medical industry and finds herself embroiled in politics regarding health care among minorities. It's when the dead bodies start to show up that she realizes she's onto something far bigger than she imagined and far deadlier...

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Street Date:
12/01/2011
Language:
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ISBN:
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Connie Shelton. (2011). Small Towns Can Be Murder. Unabridged Books in Motion.

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Connie Shelton. 2011. Small Towns Can Be Murder. Books in Motion.

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Connie Shelton, Small Towns Can Be Murder. Books in Motion, 2011.

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Connie Shelton. Small Towns Can Be Murder. Unabridged Books in Motion, 2011.

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        A tenuous mystery is overshadowed by a ho-hum romance in this fourth Charlie Parker novel (after Partnerships Can Kill, 1997). Charlotte "Charlie" Parker, a CPA in Albuquerque, N.Mex., visits Valle Escondido with friend Sally Bertrand. Sally looks up Laura Armijo, who, while they are visiting, conveniently gets a phone call informing her that her friend Cynthia is dead from a miscarriage. Laura says Cynthia's husband, Richard, is a "funny guy" who maybe used to beat Cynthia. On this meager evidence, Charlie decides Cynthia has been murdered and, with no client and no real evidence or reason, determines to investigate. She and Sally go to Richard's house, and Charlie thinks he looks "angry." But then Charlie's current love interest, Drake Langston, comes to town and suddenly Charlie becomes much more interested in making love and practicing shooting. Charlie continues to probe Cynthia's death until, from out of the blue, there comes a fragment of information that leads to an unforeseen conclusion which the villain, helpfully but idiotically, corroborates. Offering little mystery or suspense, Shelton appears to be banking on the character of Charlie, spunky amateur woman detective, to carry this caper. Unfortunately, Charlie isn't up to the task, a particularly noticeable failing in a genre featuring so many engaging and capable female gumshoes.

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