Faith Martin

Murder By Fire

Cindy Lieberman

** spoiler alert **
           The original title of this book, A Narrow Point of View, is an apt description of the victim in this murder mystery. It also describes some of Hillary's uncompromising views. For a book published in 2010, it reads as homophobic. Worse was its depiction of the transitioning character Victor/Vikkie. It was clear to me that this was the same person from the first time we met them. In other words, the mystery was not much of a mystery; Hillary was not at all sympathetic to how Victor/Vikkie was treated by their father in terms of motive; the burning of the body by a different person seemed rather odd yet was seemingly forgiven by Hillary? 

The series story arcs moved forward quite a bit (unlike Martha Grimes' detective series!), which would be, in my opinion, the only reason to read this one.

Murder By Fire

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