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Color Her Dead |
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 Color Her Dead bySteve Brown Chick Springs Publishing 265 pages, 1999 ISBN 0967027314 Reviewed by PJ Nunn Susan Chase has a life a lot of people only dream about. She’s young, attractive and lives on the beach. And she’s a private eye who works as a lifeguard to fill in those money gaps. Too bad it’s not as glamorous as it sounds. In Color Her Dead, Susan’s job is to locate a missing girl - an artist. Susan’s specialty is locating missing teens and young people who tend to gravitate toward the beach. It’s easy because she blends in so well. She doesn’t look much like a cop. In fact, most of the local law enforcement officers don’t like her at all. The mom that hires her is a real piece of work and Susan can easily guess why the girl left home. But a job’s a job. She doesn’t promise to bring them home - she just promises to find them. The artist’s community where her search begins is a little eccentric and things heat up quickly. Lots of secrets to hide. Secrets they don’t want Susan to uncover and apparently are willing to kill to protect. The mystery genre is diverse and Color Her Dead adds to that diversity with a setting that is unique and a protagonist who cloaks her vulnerabilities with attitude. The fast moving plot mimics the energy of youth, making it much more physical than cerebral. Brown is off to a good start in creating a series with potential to grow a good target audience. |
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