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Date Posted: 02:40:20 08/17/02 Sat
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "Dead Crazy" by Nancy Pickard

Genre: Mystery
Published: 1988 by Pocket Books

This novel is set in small-town New England and features Jenny Cain, the woman in charge of the areas philanthropical foundation (very much like Indianapolis' Lilly Foundation) that makes investments and gives grants for the public good. The foundation is asked to buy a building so that it can be converted into a recreation/meeting hall for the mentally ill of the community - a place where they can get out of the cold and still be welcome. But, things quickly get complicated when people start dying in and around the building and a mentally ill man is the main suspect.

The characters are believable, the book is well-paced and the killer is a surprise (I thought I had it figured out for about half the book, but ... I was wrong). I give this book a "B+."

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