Helpful Score: 2
This is a Claire Malloy mystery. Claire's daughter, Caron, and her sidekick, Inez, decide (like every teenage girl) that they're fat. What they need is a diet and exercise program -- preferably at the new gym in town. Unfortunately, all is not healthy at the gym and Claire ends up, yet again, investigating a murder. It's full of the trademark Hess wit and idiosyncratic characters. Moms of daughters will especially appreciate this series, with Caron's constantly changing passionate enthusiasms and Capital Letter Conversation.
Helpful Score: 2
Slow to get started but once it took off I had trouble putting it down.
Helpful Score: 1
Witty, well-plotted "cozy" mystery from the Claire Malloy series
