Cobalt (An Alyson Mystery) (original 1982; udgave 1998)

Ugh. Why did I bother? ( )

Valentine and Lovelace go on working holidays to Provincetown. Coming home from an all-night party, Clarisse finds a body on the beach, the body of a young man who the previous day had tried to persuade her to provide him with somewhere to stay in the resort.

Just as light and fluffy as its predecessor (though the less said about the fancy-dress party the better), but despite being something of a binge-reader of series I found two in a row too much. ( )

2nd in the Valentine and Lovelace mysteries. Valentine and Clarisse have moved to P-Town for the summer. Valentine is a bartender again and Clarisse is working in a kitschy gift shop. Like the previous one we have the murder right at the start of the book. This time it's a drug dealer whom Clarisse met on the fairy ride over. This was another with a number of twists and turns and cast of characters. We have a man who wants to be Valentine's lover but is rebuffed numerous times. A pair of lesbians who are in the same complex as Valentine and Clarisse for a week. Clarisse's Uncle who owns the complex and his partner. One of the lesbians meets an untimely end in the pool. Valentine hooks up with a guy who has an on again off again antagonistic relationship with his lover. And the whole thing comes to a smash up ending with a stage play. ( )