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Shooting in the Dark
Carolyn Hougan
#UB9012
Paperback, 419 pages; 2006 (1984)
$14.95
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Bas Bleu is proud to offer fourteen novels published by Felony & Mayhem, specialists in saving classic, plot-driven mysteries from extinction! Publisher Maggie Topkis has selected these titles especially for Bas Bleu's readers. She's written most of the reviews on these four pages. Look for her initials (MT) to see why she likes what she likes!
One of my favorite kinds of mystery plots involves the ordinary person who is thrown into an extraordinary situation. Few writers have handled this device better than Carolyn Hougan. Shooting in the Dark paints an exquisitely detailed portrait of a woman who stumbles out of the frying pan of a collapsing marriage and into a firestorm of international intrigue. When Claire's husband announces that he's leaving her (and the gossip mill starts cranking), Claire is desperate to get out of town. Impulsively, she grabs a flight for Amsterdam, which sounds restful, what with the tulips and the wooden shoes. But Amsterdam is jammed with visitors, many drunkenly celebrating the new queen's coronation, and a few, in icy sobriety, plotting to assassinate the newly exiled Shah of Iran. Though Claire couldn't find Iran on a map, a reckless one-night stand with a reporter lands her in the middle of the schemes. She already knows she can't trust her husband, and suddenly she's in a world in which everybody's loyalty is up for grabs. Shooting in the Dark is riveting, occasionally very funny, and utterly, utterly believable.
(MT)
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