Title: What happened?
Product review: I thoroughly enjoyed Phyllis Richman's first novel 'The Butter Did It' and mistakenly thought that I'd be in for a similar ride with her second effort. Unfortunately, most of this book meanders aimlessly while the crimes that are alluded to happen far from the reader's eyes. Richman spends far too much time describing the social settings surrounding the story. The actual story that is waiting to be told is put somewhere on the back shelf. Murders happen, crimes are committed, and everything gets solved. Yet somehow, the reader has a feeling that he or she is always on the outside of the action. Storylines are interjected for what turns out to be no reason at all. (Whatever happened with the Jamaican suicide?)The book reads smoothly enough, but to quote an old TV icon, when you're finished, you'll be asking 'Where's the Beef?'
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