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Cheating at Solitaire (2008)

Jane Haddam
Reviewed by Adam B. Vary | Apr 11, 2008
Adam B. Vary
Adam B. Vary

Details Release Date: Apr 15, 2008; Writer: Jane Haddam; Genres: Fiction, Mystery; Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur

In Jane Haddam's Cheating at Solitaire a has-been tabloid starlet is the only suspect when gumshoe Gregor Demarkian arrives on the Massachusetts island where her nobody boyfriend was found shot in the head.

Movie Pitch
Law & Order: Martha's Vineyard meets TMZ.

Lowdown
The mystery is pretty obvious. But Haddam has pungent fun with proxies for Paris, Lindsay, and, er, Patrick Stewart. Her point is more than welcome: Empty fame is evil. B-

Originally posted Apr 14, 2008 Published in issue #987 Apr 18, 2008 Order article reprints

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