Title: What did Patty Bigelow do? (2.5 *s)
Product review: The deathbed warning or "confession" by emergency room nurse Patty Bigelow to her college student daughter Tanya showed promise, but the book is ultimately unsatisfying.The character connections are too convenient, if not confusing: the drug-user neighbor of Patty who maybe fathered a deviant child with ex-porn star other neighbor with the child as a teen-ager having unseemly dealings with the son of the sister of the drug-user, the same drug-user found strangled shortly after Patty died - and so it goes.Apparently the author assumes that the characters are well known from previous books, because serious character development is totally absent. For example, it would have been nice for Alex Delaware's live-in girlfriend/wife Robin and detectives Petra Connor and Milo Sturgis to be other than sketches. The reader can decide if Patty's supposed involvement in a confessed action is actually established or handled well.
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