Martha Livdahl

A Perfectly Natural Murder Martha Livdahl

A food mystery to whet your romantic and reading appetites, test your PUZZLE-SOLVING SKILLS, and make you laugh: In A PERFECTLY NATURAL MURDER, a raunchy ex-Marine wants to ignore a difficult colleague's death and head for the SINGLES BARS. But the WOMAN LAWYER he is falling for argues that the bitch's poisoning and death may have been a CLEVER MURDER linked to MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR INSURANCE FRAUDS. When someone pushes the ex-Marine down a set of stairs to his NEAR-DEATH, he begins to take it all seriously. This much-modernized "Hercule Poirot"-type sees that he and his near-virginal "Miss Marple" must discover not only WHODUNIT but HOW-THEY-DUNIT-and fast, or they'll be goners too. And sexually unsatisfied. This unlikely amateur team keeps running up blind alleys but finally CONCOCTS an ELABORATE TRAP for the killer. And the dead woman, watching, complaining and kibitzing from PURGATORY is as surprised as you will be by how everything turns out! "A jolly good read," a Star reviewer says, with and "a joy-ride of misdirection." Author (Woman of Angkor) and Washington Post writer John Burgess says the writing "crackles with fabulous Noir prose!"