The Red Queen Dies, a Review
The Red Queen
Dies
by Frankie Y.
Bailey
The only Edgar Banquet I ever attended I
was seated at a table near the back and next to me was Frankie Bailey. I’d
never met her before but enjoyed visiting with her.
When P.J. Nunn asked if I’d like to
review M. Bailey’s new mystery, The Red Queen Dies, I was thrilled
to have the opportunity to, in a sense, renew that acquaintance.
The book is set in the future of 2019 in
the city of Albany, New York and the protagonist, Detective Hannah McCabe,
despite some advanced technology solves crime in the old-fashioned manner of
collecting clues, interviewing witnesses and suspects, putting bit and pieces
of information together like a puzzle, along with a large amount of
gut-instinct.
The murders of two young women, followed
by a third older and somewhat famous woman known as the Red Queen, send McCabe
and her partner on a complicated case. So many unusual clues pop up that
involve Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz, Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes
Booth, keeping the reader involved and wondering.
The fast pace of this mystery, wonderful
characters, and the fresh and unusual plot kept this reader eagerly turning the
page and wondering what was going to happen next.
A topnotch mystery with a refreshing and
original detective!
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