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Feminist Mystery Reviews BLUE Reviewed by Harriet Klausner A side effect of a minor earthquake that recently rocked the San Diego area was to disarm the timer of a public food locker just outside the desert town of Borrego Springs. With the hundred plus degree temperatures pulsating on the faulty freezer, a body begins to thaw out. A widow, sixty-one-year old Muffin Crandall confesses that five years ago she killed, mutilated, and froze an intruder breaking into her home. Muffin's much younger brother, Dan, refuses to believe that his sibling killed the man. For a sizable fee, he hires social psychologist Dr. B. McCarron (better known as Blue among her friends and relatives) to see if she can somehow refute the confession by analyzing his sister. After meeting the raucous Muffin in prison, Blue is convinced the woman is too smart and experienced to have dispatched a body in the place that the victim was found. This leaves Blue wondering why an obviously intelligent and hard-woking woman like Muffin would confess to a crime she did not commit. Blue's investigation soon places her life in jeopardy as she tangles with a female conspiracy that forces her to dig deep into her gut in order to survive. BLUE is an interesting who-done-it, fully constructed around a viable, courageous, and gay heroine, who will steal the heart and soul of readers. The mystery is fun and exciting, but in the final analysis, the author of the exciting Bo Bradley series, Abigail Padgett, has imbued her new series with a feminist who will leave fans feeling blue if more works are not soon released.
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