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The Woman Who Rode to the Moon |
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 The Woman Who Rode to the Moon:A Cordelia Morgan Mystery by Bett Reece Johnson Cleis Press 321 pages, 2000 ISBN 1573440868 Reviewed by Bev Walton-Porter Meet J.S. Symkin, a six-foot female and former poet/professor turned entrepreneur. Intent on putting the current crisis of her life behind her, she takes off for a healthy dose of Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains and El Gato, a private, gated community planted within its midst. Little does Sym know there's a killer stalking prey in the mountains, and if Sym's not careful, she might be next on the list of intended victims. Fortunately, it isn't long before Sym meets Cordelia Morgan, a savvy sleuth sent on a mission by a distraught mother to discover the meaning behind her daughter's hanging death. But as "Cord" suspects, there's more to El Gato than meets the eye. Reluctantly, the remote Colorado community offers up its secrets in shocking, eye-opening bits and pieces. Alternating between Sym and Cordelia's first-person points of view, Bett Reece Johnson makes the technique work where many other authors couldn't. You feel like you're in each woman's skin, seeing what she's seeing, hearing what she's hearing and, most important, mulling over the situations as each encounters them. When Cordelia finally faces her evil nemesis head-on, the tension is difficult to squelch. Adrenaline, alarm and edginess pours through the book's pages and into the reader nonstop. If you're looking for a sharp female protagonist combined with believable secondary characters, compelling dialogue and an interesting setting, The Woman Who Rode To The Moon delivers the mystery you've been craving. It serves up both satisfaction and scintillation while leaving you hungering for more. |
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