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The Owl Lady

Nov 27

"Dead Men Don't Swing is Karen Vaughan's bawdy, comedic take on amateur sleuthing." – Dead Men Don't Swing (Laura & Gerry Mystery #4) by Karen Vaughan

Laura and Gerry are at it again. Death finds them close to home when a tenant is found in the dumpster behind their apartment building. Laura is thrust into the "who killed Denny?" mystery while she does battle with a tenant and dodges a school janitor. The life of a college student is never boring, but she wishes it would be!
Dead Men Don't Swing is a biting, funny, deliciously bawdy, and fast-paced murder mystery in which "death by sexual misadventure and a wayward poisonous snake" (among other things) make for pure entertainment gold."

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The "corpse magnet" is back!

Dead Men Don't Swing is Karen Vaughan's bawdy, comedic take on amateur sleuthing. It's book four in her Laura & Gerry Mystery series. Lots of detective lingo is delivered with wit and sarcasm by the protagonist, Laura. That's not surprising if you've read Vaughan's previous books in the series, and given the fact that the author has done a bit of stand-up comedy. In this book, Laura and her husband Gerry are back dealing with another murder investigation since, as Laura explains, she's a 'corpse magnet.' This time a dead body turns up in a dumpster at the apartment complex where Laura and Gerry are managers, having fallen to his death from the balcony above. Not likely an accident—the guy is wearing boxer shorts and sporting a tricked-out stiletto in his forehead. Oh yeah, he's missing some sensitive body parts—yikes! Things are not as they seem in this suburban Canadian apartment complex. It turns out there's a whole lot of hanky-panky going on in this mid-rise Peyton Place, some of it pretty kinky stuff, too. There's no shortage of pervs and perps on any floor, in addition to the ever-annoying, tenant-from-hell, Stella. As I type the name, I hear Marlon Brando screaming it at the top of his lungs in A Streetcar Named Desire. And, speaking of movies, the photographer played by Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window, would have been hard-pressed to know where to shoot first with all the action going on in this complex!