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Hollis Grant #3
Cut to the Chase
Danson Lafleur's been on a crusade to investigate deported criminals who return undetected to Canada, and now he's missing. Can he be the unidentified man in the morgue? Danson's desperate sister pleads with artist and amateur sleuth Hollis Grant to search for her brother, since the police don't appear to be taking his disappearance seriously. L...
288 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2009
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September 7, 2012
Artist Hollis Grant has a good heart and a case of artist’s block as she struggles with her current work in progress. So when her good friend and landlord, Candace confides that her brother Danson has been missing for several days and believes he might be in trouble, Hollis offers to help find him. The distraction is welcome and she’s doing a good deed, however the more Hollis learns the more mysterious and dangerous the situation becomes.
Cut to the Chase is an entertaining whodunnit that also drove me crazy, which was ironic because the same thing kept happening to Hollis as she tries to pry information from Danson’s mother, Poppy. Poppy knows things she won’t even share with her own daughter, let alone Hollis. Hollis knows things, which she won’t share with the police for misguided reasons. All this secret-keeping and info withholding places key characters in danger, including Candace’s three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and this was troubling.
On the other hand, withholding information is a key theme throughout the book on many levels, and although frustrating, the concept is intriguing. I waffled between understanding where Hollis was coming from but also silently screaming at her to share key bits of info with the police, who have already warned her about keeping info from them. There’s danger, excitement, risk, and baffling decisions that make for a page-turner that involved me emotionally. I like Hollis a lot. I just wish she had more common sense.
Cut to the Chase is an entertaining whodunnit that also drove me crazy, which was ironic because the same thing kept happening to Hollis as she tries to pry information from Danson’s mother, Poppy. Poppy knows things she won’t even share with her own daughter, let alone Hollis. Hollis knows things, which she won’t share with the police for misguided reasons. All this secret-keeping and info withholding places key characters in danger, including Candace’s three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and this was troubling.
On the other hand, withholding information is a key theme throughout the book on many levels, and although frustrating, the concept is intriguing. I waffled between understanding where Hollis was coming from but also silently screaming at her to share key bits of info with the police, who have already warned her about keeping info from them. There’s danger, excitement, risk, and baffling decisions that make for a page-turner that involved me emotionally. I like Hollis a lot. I just wish she had more common sense.
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