The 1979 setting made me think of detective shows. In this interesting novella everything's not as it appears when it seems that an elderly woman committed multiple murders and then suicide at a movie studio. Two police detectives investigate the case. There's even a cat in the book so that lightens things up. I'd be interested in further adventures of these detectives. I'd recommend this to fans of police procedurals. There's some bad language, more than in the cozies written under other names by this author. ( )

I enjoyed reading this story and seeing how their thought process worked in solving the mystery. It was a quick read so it can be started and finished in one reading which is nice as you don't have to wait quite as long to see what has happened. I liked how the characters were able to see past what seems the correct train of thought to get down to what is really going on.
I received a copy of the story from the author, the review is my own. ( )

This short story takes place in the late 1970's. Two officers are called to the set of a Hollywood movie studio to investigate a grizzly crime scene. Three women have been found murdered in one of the offices, and while it first appears to be a murder-suicide, the evidence starts to lead in another direction. This story combines a lot of enjoyable elements...buddy cops, old-fashioned investigation techniques, and Hollywood movie sets. There's also violence, some of it sexual in nature, although none of it is too graphic. I had a good feeling about who the "perp" was early on but the motive was unclear to me. The guilty party end us being revealed to us, the readers, long before the heroes were able to finish putting the clues together, giving the story a little extra bit of intensity. A good read and a nice little blast to the not-so-distant past. ( )