Review of Delivering Death by Julie Kramer
Reviewed by Judith Starkston
Another page-turning, alternately funny and bone-chilling
mystery from Julie Kramer. Riley Spartz, investigative journalist for Channel 3
in Minneapolis is still sparring with her intellectually stunted, over-sexed
boss while trying to keep her career afloat. Then there’s her ex-fiancé, who
she’s not so sure should stay exed, except he seems to be awfully tight with
his attractive new boss so there seems no hope there. Misery does love Riley,
but you won’t be miserable reading as Riley’s dry, cynical humor carries a
twisty plot that will keep you guessing. Perhaps I should have opened with
“tooth-aching” instead of bone-chilling because that’s the clue that starts
Riley off on her lethal investigation—the arrival of human teeth in an
envelope. Were they taken out while someone was alive? What on earth do they
mean? Someone less brave (or less in need of a story) might have left it up to
the police to sort out, but Riley plows right through a mass-marriage, a mortuary
and any number of other gruesome settings to get things uncovered. Her
persistence might get her killed—or someone else she cares about.
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