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Beat up a cookie

Denise Dietz

Mephisto

Category: Fiction / Mystery

256 pages, ISBN: 0373263.406000

Remember, when the night was the last original episode of M * A * S * H ​​aired? Ellie Bernstein ago. She did her overweight tuckus bash on a bar stool at Charley's Aaronson Dew Drop Inn, the hosts had a rough M * A * S * H, complete with drunk look-alikes and Klinger Hawkeyes offer their farewell TV show favorite drink with a happy (or five or ten).Ellie shook her husband's flagrant infidelity, the show uses as a balm and I tried to avoid another inevitable cheesecake binges. At that time, she believes that even the most miserable person in the room, but that title is now a woman as "Hot Lips" Houlihan dress, who died in the parking lot of the bar.

Cut to the present, and Ellie, fresh from the long-awaited launch Darts hobby Denise Deitz at a Cheesecake is eleven years older, 55 pounds lighter andless a husband. Beaten in a cookie, says consultant winner weight to other women looking to lose weight, while her current lover, detective Peter Miller, Ellie differs interest in his work (which has replaced his appetite for sweets) and refuses Information curious the suicide of a medical leave sellers who bring more than a passing resemblance to some M * A * S * H ​​surgeon. The name of the deceased? Frank Burns.

With great annoyance of Peter, is the curiosity of Elliewhen fed a second clone "Hot Lips" is found dead, and soon she is held by a coterie of die-hard M * A * S * Hers mixing (including womanizing architect Ken Trask, whose house in patriotic colors, and Fred Remming, frustrated looks like a soul complain that O'Reilly Radar Mel Gibson), which makes ritualize their viewing habits. With their cap fictional Sherlock, Ellie, quietly suggested that one of a serial killer, possibly with crimes dating back to that fateful night when a youngWoman in a bar parking lot was also called "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen". For Ellie, but the task is not easy: the only common denominator among the victims is their similarity to show signs, and they all seem suspicious motive and opportunity, that is, when you think of imagination Ellie and their paranoia when his overactive son of which, incidentally, that Ellie was for "Hot Lips" to vomit! For Ellie, it is important that the murderess before finding them, as M * A * S * H, is repealed.

Afun to read quickly, Beat Up A cookie is packed with the most important elements of a mystery with a grounded Detective (Ellie Bernstein is a breath of fresh air in a world of dolls format, which shows that more than 40 doesn 't mean over the hill), strong, witty dialogue and a lot more intricate than a street in San Francisco. You do not have a M * A * S * H ​​fans beat up a cookie, do not enjoy some of the people in this inspiring book, though.

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