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MAY 16, 2005
Middling for this quirky series, less penetrating than A Detective in Love (2002) but more resourceful and substantial than... Full review >
DEC. 1, 2002
Transcends Harriet’s debut (The Hard Detective, 2000) to join Keating’s trenchant studies of The Rich Detective (1993), The... Full review >
FEB. 11, 2004
Readers will certainly feel for dogged Harriet, though the punchline, as so often in Keating’s civilized entertainments,... Full review >
MARCH 10, 1997
NOV. 19, 2001
The usual indifferent mystery-mongering is spiced by a gallery of sharply observed social types, Keating’s usual eye for the... Full review >
AUG. 4, 1999
AUG. 18, 2009
“Why, oh why, is it hard so often to decide what to do?” laments Ghote once he’s in possession of the facts. Despite... Full review >
AUG. 28, 2006
The mystery is solved by a series of convenient, and conveniently delayed, recollections. It’s a testament to this series... Full review >
MAY 11, 2000
A bump in the estimable road for veteran Keating (The Bad Detective, 1999, etc.), who, almost out of petrol here, inserts a... Full review >
JAN. 3, 2005
As thin a mystery as Keating has ever set, without the complexity of morals and motives that marks his best work. Full review >
JUNE 10, 2008
Harriet is muffled by frustration and grief for her son (One Man and His Bomb, 2006, etc.), and the detective work is a bit... Full review >
DEC. 1, 1999
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