Title: Crosswords, yes, but NO Connection
Product review: Following on the heels of other mystery writers who run out of ideas before their publishers stop paying advances (Rita Mae Brown's Harry Haristeen series, for example), the husband and wife team of Nero Blanc have turned in a third episode in their series. The characters are okay, but most of the book is taken up with a nonsensical diversion that has nothing to do with the real murders and the actual solution comes out of left field, which to me is the cardinal sin of mysteries. If crosswords are your thing, I'd go for the first couple of books in the Puzzle Lady sequence by Parnell Hall, instead.
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