Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: David Handler
Title: The Blood Red Indian Summer
Review: The umpteenth offering in the Mitry/Berger mystery series is probably the best yet. Set, as usual, in the bucolic Big Indian Island on the Connecticut/Long Island Sound shoreline, it finds our mismatched heroes (she a striking Conn. State Resident Trooper, he a former “Doughboy” Jewish New York film critic- as they pursue justice in what should be, by all counts, a panacea of mellow, but in reality, seems to be a magnet for very strange happenings. The characters are reaching prime development in this 9th installment of the series, and the dialog is crisp and often hilarious. I clearly have a soft touch affinity for these genres, and especially those that seek to emulate the magnificent John D. MacDonald/ Travis McGee epics…that is just fine with me.