Journalist turned author, David Handler, has a new book out
in a series that Kerry Hammond loves. She’s here to tell us what she thinks.
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss by David Handler was published on
August 14, in Hardcover by William Morrow. It’s the 10th in the Stewart
Hoag Mystery series. We also reviewed the 9th book in the series, The Girl With the Kaleidascope Eyes, here on Mystery Playground. I love this series and
was excited to see there was a new book out; I just had to get my hands on it.
Ghostwriter Stewart Hoag “Hoagy” and his basset hound, Lulu,
are back and up to their eyeballs in a new mystery. Hoagy is spending some time
in the country at a farmhouse belonging to his ex-wife, actress Merilee Nash.
Merilee is putting on a high priced charity event to save a local theater and
tensions are running high. When one of the actors is murdered, Hoagy is there
to help solve the crime.
Hoagy and Lulu are priceless. Hoagy is there with his flashy
fashion sense and dry sense of humor, and Lulu, well Lulu is scared of her own
shadow. But she manages to back up Hoagy when he needs her most, and she’s
always there to sniff out a clue. Hoagy is smooth without being arrogant, he is
dapper with a one-of-a-kind style, and he is the exact person you want around
in a crises. He is calm and analytical and he always manages to catch the
killer.
This is a wonderful series, I love Handler’s style of
writing and Hoagy is such a unique character. It’s refreshing to find a
protagonist who is outside the mold; there is nothing cookie cutter about him. The
small town theater storyline and the quaint Connecticut backdrop made for a
great mystery. This is a fun and satisfying series and I thoroughly enjoy it.
This book was provided to Mystery Playground by the
publisher. The review is fair and independent.
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