DIRTY DEEDS
A Grime Solvers Mystery - #2
Suzanne Price
Obsidian
ISBN 9780451224576
July 2008
Mystery

Young widow Sky Taylor is going to clean her way to financial security! Between her newspaper column of cleaning tips and her small enterprise cleaning for businesses and individuals of Pigeon Cove, Sky has made a start. The possibility of landing a contract cleaning city hall would give her just what she has been working for. While waiting to clean up after a big art association event, Sky and her friend Chloe discover a dead body in a performance art display promoting a local condominium project. Not one to resist a good puzzle, Sky digs in with the help of her boyfriend Mike, and amazon stripper named Sandy-- who is in town to exposed the misdeeds of her ex-lover, dirty local politician Tommy Thompson. What Sky and cohorts uncover proves to be bigger than murder... but will Sky be able to keep herself from being dragged into the mess?

DIRTY DEEDS is just a whole lot of fun! Quirky, colorful characters and a fast paced narrative will transport readers to the quaint little town of Pigeon Cove, where small town politics are taken to extremes: lust, greed, and corruption hanging over residents like a dark cloud. Sky is an endearing heroine, obsessive, inquisitive, intelligent and loyal. I look forward to more in this promising cozy series, especially since the author has left readers with a delicious romantic cliffhanger! Sky's adventures continue with the release of NOTORIOUSLY NEAT in April 2009. I can't wait!

Reviewed by Melissa Fowler
Rating 4