Murder's No Match for a Mid-Life Woman -- Review of Laura Lippman's Murder Takes a Vacation
If there’s one type of person whom others should reconsider messing with, it’s a mid-life woman who has finally, at long last, come into her own... Take Mrs. Muriel Blossom. At 68, she’s already lived two-thirds of her life. She’s been a wife, a mother, and a working woman... and now, after nearly 40 years of marriage, she’s a retired widow. She’s also the recent—and very, very lucky—holder of a winning lottery ticket, which has vastly improved the prospect of her golden years. Finally, she’ll be able to see the world... something the homebody Mr. Blossom sadly never had any inkling to do. But, while Mrs. Blossom has never been one to attract a lot of attention— particularly not from the opposite sex! —she suddenly finds herself in a full-blown, real-life, torn-from-a-movie-script plotline. On a fancy cruise ship, traversing the Seine, with eligible men seemingly coming out of the woodwork [cue a deliriously-raucous...