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One-time dancer Leslie Wetzon, now self-employed in a headhunting firm for brokerage houses, enlists the aid of an ambitious journalist friend to determine whether someone killed an acquaintance of hers (a little old rich lady with Alzheimer's) who apparently jumped to her death from a 20th-floor apartment. The author easily sketches in some unique New Yorkers, such as Wetzon's sharp friend Hazel and gay buddy Carlos, but she throws in too many extras, and her characters are inconsistent. Poetically effective but realistic descriptions of the wintry city periodically relieve descriptions of shopping and office routine but contribute to an idling and ultimately unfinished plot. For larger collections.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Tender Death (A Smith and Wetzon Mystery) FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
One-time dancer Leslie Wetzon, now self-employed in a headhunting firm for brokerage houses, enlists the aid of an ambitious journalist friend to determine whether someone killed an acquaintance of hers (a little old rich lady with Alzheimer's) who apparently jumped to her death from a 20th-floor apartment. The author easily sketches in some unique New Yorkers, such as Wetzon's sharp friend Hazel and gay buddy Carlos, but she throws in too many extras, and her characters are inconsistent. Poetically effective but realistic descriptions of the wintry city periodically relieve descriptions of shopping and office routine but contribute to an idling and ultimately unfinished plot. For larger collections.
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