Marilyn's Musings

For Keeps – A  Sam Moore Mystery by Aaron Lazar I’m not sure what this mystery should be called, except that it totally captivated me from the opening paragraph. I had no idea what to expect and each page was more and more surprising. Set in a small town, the story begins like a cozy, with Sam, the retired doctor engrossed in his garden, gathering vegetables for his much beloved wife who is confined to a wheelchair. He seems to have the perfect life with loving children and grandchildren.  A downward spiral begins when he receives a call from Lou, a friend who is also the local coroner, telling him a body has been found in the Twin Sisters Inn. This is when the plot and writing veers away from the cozy genre. Though he doesn’t recognize the murder victim at first, he realizes the victim is someone he’s neither seen nor thought of in years, a woman he had a three-day passionate fling with during spring break from medical school. Because his name and address were ...