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Zukowski, Sharon Leap of Faith
New York Dutton Adult 1994 0525938974 / 9780525938972 N Hardcover N
From Kirkus Reviews ``I've never had a client who was a month away from being born,'' says Blaine Stewart after the death of her original client- -widowed acquaintance Judith Marsden, whose in-vitro egg is currently growing inside surrogate mother Hannah Wyrick, who has taken off for parts unknown--leaves her working for the unborn heir to the Marsden millions. That's not all that's weird about this case. Judith's ``borrowed uterus,'' Hannah, has done some borrowing of her own; she and her sister Nikki, Blaine's housecleaner, are former teen runaways who've been hiding for years under assumed identities. When Blaine tries to bully the smugly unhelpful staff at the Metropolitan Fertility Clinic into telling her where Hannah's gone and who she really is, the clinic pushes back, and Blaine loses first the bread-and-butter clients she shares with her lawyer sister Eileen, then her household possessions to serious vandalism, and finally her cleaning lady, dead in her basement. But Blaine's tough enough to keep coming back, even when a rogue cop leaves her cuffed to a freezing pier. The sparks that fly from these different subplots never really kindle a steady flame, but don't worry about Blaine. As a priest she hammers for info tells her: ``You are a hard woman, Miss Stewart.'' Lots of good ideas for a mystery, all juiced up by the surrogate mother topicality, and if you read the first half in a doctor's office you'd be impressed. But Zukowski (Dancing in the Dark, 1992, etc.) is too busy showing that Blaine can both take it and dish it out to bother pulling the thousand dire threads of this fantastical tale together. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Zukowski, Sharon Prelude to Death
New York Dutton Adult 1996 0525940790 / 9780525940791 N Hardcover N
From Publishers Weekly Manhattan PI Blaine Stewart returns from Leap of Faith for her fourth caper. Shortly after her marriage to an FBI agent, Blaine gets a late-night call for help from her brother, Dick, in Key West. Dick, who last spoke to Blaine two years earlier, has been arrested for the murder of his lover, Corrye Edwards, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the widow of a Cuban expatriate artist. While investigating in Key West, however, Blaine runs into roadblocks, one in the person of Ray Meltzer, local policeman who seems to have had more than a passing interest in Corrye, and another in Dick's own attorney, wheelchair-bound Laska Brown, who rubs Blaine the wrong way. Coping with the heat, the tourists and the temptations of Margaritaville, recovering alcoholic Blaine wades into an intrigue that could have international repercussions. Zukowski's main plot is pleasantly sleek, but her characters, with the exception of Blaine, are sometimes flat, and coincidences abound as Blaine gets help from her sister, Eileen, an attorney, and from a &doublequote;Deep Throat&doublequote; confidant in Washington. Improbabilities aside, the colorful locale and fast pace lead to a nail-biting conclusion. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Recently married Manhattan private investigator Blaine Stewart plies her craft in Key West. It seems the local police have jailed her younger brother Dick for the rape and murder of his lover, prize-winning poet Corrye Edwards. What little information Blaine gathers appears to incriminate her brother, especially after he refuses her help and then skips bail. Blaine encounters belligerent police, suspicious government agents, and puzzling twists caused by deception from all sides. Descriptions of Key West accompany the nicely complicated plot, and Blaine's battles against alcoholism add depth to her character. For all collections. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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