Unsafe Keeping
A Maxey Burnell Mystery
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Reporter Maxey Burnell is co-owner - along with her attractive, infuriatingly irresponsible ex-husband, Reece - of an alternative weekly newspaper in Boulder, Colorado. Driving home late one night Maxey is nearly sideswiped by a runaway van - victim of a teenager's prank, according to the police. But soon after, her landlady, Mrs. Waterford, is killed in a similar accident, and distraught Timothy Waterford asks Maxey to look into his grandmother's death. As Maxey investigates, murder and mayhem get a little too close for comfort. The van incident was only the beginning, and before she's through, the complaints will include arson and attempted murder.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The hectic life of a Boulder, Colo., weekly newspaper owner is skillfully rendered in Cail's second Maxie Burnell story, following Private Lies. After almost being hit by a runaway van, Maxie agrees to write a story about a neighborhood group trying to stop a developer's plan to raze a historic bordello and replace it with condos. Maxie and her co-owner, also her ex-husband, hire her landlady's grandson, a part-time college student who wants to be a journalist. On her way to see the bordello, Maxie encounters a fire investigator at an arson site. The divergent threads of the plot begin to connect when her landlady is killed by a runaway vehicle and Maxie discovers the old woman was the owner of the historic house of ill repute. After the bordello is targeted by an arsonist, the plucky, insatiably curious Maxie jeopardizes her life to find out who is responsible.
