Posing in Paradise: 6 (Harry Reese Mysteries) Paperback – Import, 12 January 2017

Well, if you do, then this is for you! BUT IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER THEM, THEN THIS IS STILL FOR YOU! Harry is perpetually in the dark, bemused, in love with Emmy. She is inscrutably in love with him, and she is always waiting with the apparently unaware comeback, the one-step-ahead-of-him stinger, the ‘you haven’t figured this out yet’ smirk, and all so blinking-eye sweetly, modesty in service of saving his ego! And Harry is somehow aware that he is SO far behind her, but plodding onward courageously, and lo’ and behold, occasionally adding a bit of info to their sleuthing. What wonderful plotting, and what great, so-memorable characters! APPLAUSE! ENCORE! ENCORE!

Unlike all other prior volumes, here the Reeses seem to be brittle and their banter seems to have become close to caustic. Other characters seem simply irritating. The situation's convolutions acquire a diminishing ability to hold the attention of the reader in comparison to the vortex of gyrating plot twists going on in real life 2017.