Back Stab

by Elaine Viets | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0440224314 Global Overview for this book
Registered by 67cougargirl of Belvidere, Illinois USA on 3/20/2016
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Journal Entry 3 by wingTribefanwing at Lakemore, Ohio USA on Friday, April 15, 2016
Received in a large lot through Bookmooch! Thanks for sending!!

BACK STAB is a mystery about the newspaper business--which has always been murder. Now someone is killing off readers, and the St. Louis City Gazette can't afford to lose circulation.Gazette columnist Francesca Vierling takes these deaths personally--reliable sources are hard to find--and Francesca's search for the killer takes her into the strange side streets of St. Louis, including a visit to the Miss Gender Bender Pageant, a beauty contest for female impersonators. Along the way Francesca must determine if her own blood soaked past is clouding her view of the future.

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Journal Entry 5 by eicuthbertson at Burnaby, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Thank you, thank you, for this book.
Arrived in the mail this week - and was just what I needed after a frustrating day.
Good mystery, set in St. Louis, Missouri, USA; a very intriguing back story.

Will Francesca ever learn more? and/or come to terms with her own past?

Released 6 yrs ago (4/26/2017 UTC) at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada

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Journal Entry 7 by Strude at New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Monday, May 1, 2017
There were passages in this mystery which I really enjoyed, the descriptions of characters like the staff at Uncle Bob's and the drag queens taking part in the Gender Bender pageant. (If there isn't a pageant with that name there certainly should be.) I loved the detail of the bow on the back of Maria's dress to emphasize the "ass with class". There was a feeling of "here's someone I met while writing my columns and I just have to get him/her into the story" sometimes so that I wonder if the high number of characters was partly due to a desire to include favourite vignettes.
The gay relationships were very well drawn and the sadness resulting from broken partnerships created solid sympathy for the people involved, even when you fear that you're dealing with suspects. I would certainly look for any others MS Viets has written, especially since the St. Louis I have read about is much much older than hers and I enjoy journalism based characters, especially when you feel there might actually be some truth behind the writing.

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