But I Wouldn't Want to Die There (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 8) - Softcover

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After the brutal murder of her friend Carol Margolis, Jenny Cain travels to New York, where she takes charge of Carol's job and the murder investigation. Reprint.

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Jenny Cain, the author's energetic, emotionally vulnerable heroine (Generous Death, etc.), ex-director of a charitable foundation in Port Frederick, Massachusetts, has lost her New York friend Carol Margolis, killed by a street mugger. Carol worked for the Hart Foundation, and now her boss wants Jenny to take over Carol's projects--an idea not happily received by Jenny's policeman husband Geof. Arriving in New York, Jenny stays in Carol's apartment, in a building full of aging eccentrics, run by Jed Goodman, 19-year-old son of the loony landlady. She meets Carol's separated husband Steve, an unprosperous musician whose Brooklyn in-laws are certain he arranged Carol's demise. Steve wants Jenny to plead his innocence to them, but that's only the start of her problems. Carol had left behind a series of unresolved Foundation tangles--heavy donor Malcolm Lloyd, threatening to sue for return of his money; a theater group waiting penniless for their inexplicably overdue grant check; and an illiteracy program run by overwrought Frenchman Andrei Bolen in the dankest of slums. Jenny takes it all on--alternating between fear of the city and its weirdos and exhilaration at its vibrant pace and inexhaustible wonders--until Carol's murderer is unmasked and other matters are resolved, including her own future career. Robust, funny, touching, and engrossing all the way: Pickard peaks here. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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YA-In her eighth series entry, Pickard sets Jenny down smack on West End Avenue in New York City. She's been asked to be interim director for the charitable Hart Foundation, a vacancy caused by the brutal murder of her best friend, Carol Margolis. The police assume that Carol was just the unlucky victim of a routine mugging gone wrong, but Jenny recalls Carol's cryptic last phone message and suspects that her murder was connected to her job. As the young woman digs through her friend's files and meets some of the zany characters who seem to thrive and prosper in the Big Apple, she realizes that many people had the means and motive to kill Carol, including her supposedly grief-stricken, estranged husband. A great balance of laughs and tears, thrills and chills, and a delight from start to finish.
Susan R. Farber, Chappaqua Public Library, NY
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  • PublisherPocket
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0671723316
  • ISBN 13 9780671723316
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Number of pages243
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