Jane Wheel #1
Minotaur Books
September 2002
On Sale: September 16, 2002
336 pages ISBN: 0312983700 EAN: 9780312983703 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
In this dynamite series debut, Sharon Fiffer has
introduced an engaging and enterprising heroine in Jane
Wheel. Recently laid off from her advertising job,
separated from her husband Charley, and colliding head-on
with a midlife crisis, Jane is trying to make ends meet as
an antique "picker" foraging for killer stuff at suburban
Chicago's estate sales and auctions, garage sales and flea
markets.
Before long she's addicted to the hunt,
spending her Friday nights with the classified ads and a
street map, outlining her weekend plan of attack. Jane
knows that finding the real treasures is all about being
in the right place at the right time.
But just as
she's settling in to her new routine, Jane finds herself
in just the wrong place and at quite the wrong time:
stumbling over her neighbor Sandy's dead body. Soon she's
the prime suspect. After all, everyone on the block seems
to have seen her kissing Sandy's husband at a recent
dinner party. Leaning on her best friend Tim, a flower
shop owner and fellow junk hound, as well as Evanston
police detective Bruce Oh, Jane has no choice but to hunt
for the truth. Hopefully her knack for uncovering
valuables in the least likely of places will extend to
discovering clues as well. Like the vintage postcards,
Bakelite buttons, and Fulper lamps that she dreams of
finding, to Jane the truth just might be
priceless.
Sharon Fiffer's mystery debut is a
fabulously entertaining read and an intriguing puzzle
featuring a heroine that's a dynamic mix of Miss Marple,
Kinsey Millhone, and Leigh and Leslie Keno.
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