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Title: No mystery here
Review: First let me say that I think cat lovers and librarians should be banned from reviewing Miss Zukas books. Show them a cat or a catalog and they lose all objectivity. "Out of Circulation" is a hugely flawed book not worth wasting your time on. For one thing, it is supposedly a mystery, but Miss Zukas DOES NOT solve a mystery in this book! She is stuck in a cabin with a bunch of likely suspects, no clues are revealed for her or the reader to chew on, and in the last 20 pages the baddie picks up a gun and declares herself. Nobody solves anything! Other problems: The names of people are ridiculously contrived. A suspect builds a snow cave, apparently in a few minutes in freshly fallen snow. This is an impossibility. I half expected the know-it-all Miss Zukas to say "Wait a minute, you can't build a snow cave in fresh snow" but that bit of reality doesn't intrude on the plot. I was shocked when I saw the other reviews of this book as I expected at least some bad ones.
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