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(More customer reviews)When her mother asked her to go back with her to Iowa, Charlie Green had wanted to refuse. Iowa and the family there meant nothing to Charlie--noting but the people who had made her mother's life miserable. Still, she couldn't abandon her mother to her ruthless relatives. Charlie goes to Iowa.
Myrtle, Iowa is something of a mystery itself. The town is supported largely by a home for the aged--where, curiously, people go to die but...
Author Marlys Millhiser delivers a quirky and thoughtful mystery. ...
THE RAMPANT REAPER includes knee-slapping humor, but is occasionally hard to follow and sometimes loses track of the mystery completely. As I was reading, I couldn't help wonder if Millhiser is having current problems with her own aging relatives. Perhaps so, because REAPER seemed unable to make up its mind whether it was intended to be a funny-quirky novel, or a thoughtful examination of the way America treats its aging, and saddles its women with these responsibilities.
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Charlie Greene confronts her wacky extended family and a series of nursing home murders with characteristic good humoriterary agent and amateur sleuth Charlie Greene accompanies her mother to her great-great-aunts funeral under great duress. After all, Charlie herself is adopted, and this part of her extended family has never made her feel that welcome. Whats worse, its in Myrtle, Iowa, about as far from Charlies life as a high-powered California literary agent as one could get. But she agrees anyway. How bad could it be?In this quirky, offbeat mystery, that urns out to be the worlds biggest rhetorical questionespecially since someone is offing the elderly in this midwestern towns only nursing home. Now its up to Charlie, the suspicious outsider, to put all the pieces together. All in all, The Rampant Reaper is another fabulous addition to this humorous series.
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