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    The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery
    The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery
    The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery

    Written by Susan Cox

    Narrated by Liz Pearce

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Former party girl Theophania Bogart is hiding in San Francisco to escape a family scandal, but her carefully-constructed new life is threatened when she sees Tim Callahan fall from a window. The police don't believe his death was an accident, and they seem to think Theo had sufficient motive to wish him dead. And when Theo's friend and business partner is also murdered mere days later, the police start digging even deeper into the secrets Theo's been running from. Theo soon realizes the only way to prove her innocence will be to find the real killer herself. Along the way, Theo has to navigate her best friend, who is one of her prime suspects; her young protege, who may or may not have a juvie record; her stern and unyielding grandfather, who exposes an unexpected soft center; and the man she found sitting on her washing machine one evening, who isn't quite what he appears, either. Sue Cox's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning novel is a charming debut with wacky, colorful characters and a delightfully twisted mystery. SUE COX has worked as a journalist, the marketing and public relations director for a safari park, a fundraiser for schools and non-profit associations, and the president of the Palm Beach County Attractions Association. She was born in England and now lives in San Francisco. Her first novel, The Man on the Washing Machine, won the 2014 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 15, 2015
    ISBN9781501904509
    The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery
    Author

    Susan Cox

    SUSAN COX is a former journalist. She has also been marketing and public relations director for a safari park, a fundraiser for non-profit organizations, and the president of the Palm Beach County (Fla.) Attractions Association. She considers herself transcontinental and transatlantic, equally at home in San Francisco and Florida and with a large and boisterous extended family in England. She frequently wears a Starfleet communicator pin, just in case. Her first novel, The Man on the Washing Machine, won the 2014 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition.

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      Another Bouchercon find, although I think I might have had this title on my "Maybe" list for awhile a few years back. If it was, it was because the title intrigued me, but I didn't get a strong enough vibe from the blurb to commit. Susan Cox was one of the participants in Bouchercon's Author Speed Dating event, and my interest was renewed. I liked it, and I'm interested in reading the next one, but my enjoyment wasn't without reservations. Either Cox's writing style and I were not in sync, or it was poorly edited before going to print. This is one of those situations where it could go either way: Cox's style is a bit loose and free form, so I often felt like the MC, Theo's, thoughts jumped around, or she made connections without a clear line of reasoning, or - and I'm blaming the editing for this one in particular - there would be an abrupt change of narrative topic or scene. Otherwise, it had great bones. Theo is hard to warm to, but she's in hiding, so maybe her need to stay detached extends to the reader too (the POV is first first past, or after-the-fact). But the San Francisco neighborhood, and most of the characters involved in the mystery, come alive. The story starts with a man pushed out of a window and before it's all solved, there are smugglers, compost-obsessed-gardeners, machetes, a suspiciously-acting possible love interest, and yes, a man on a washing machine. It all ties together in the end, sort of. Mostly. This is a first novel as well as a first in a series, and frankly, it shows. The narrative could have flowed better, the plot could have been tighter, more cohesive. But as I said, it has good bones, and there's a lot of potential in this odd but glorious neighbourhood Susan Cox has created. I definitely want to see where she takes it.