Mother-Daughter Murder Night

A Novel

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Nina Simon: Mother-Daughter Murder Night (2023, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-331506-8
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3 stars (2 reviews)

3 editions

Readable mystery set in Monterey

3 stars

Ostensibly about a Filipino-jewish woman who lives in Monterey who has a high powered real-estate agent & Filipino American mother with cancer who joins her in solving a murder. I really do not like copaganda and sadly this book tries to include a Native American cop who does the "right thing" but still how is that not copaganda? Also there is almost nothing Filipino in the book about ostensibly 3 Filipino American protagonists.

The book is very readable though. My quest for mysteries without copaganda continues.

Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon

3 stars

I have seen some odd things in mystery novels. Usually, these odd things are creative ways of killing people or highly original motives. Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon, is the first time I’ve ever seen a murder investigation become a form of family therapy. The deaths of two men turned out to do more to bring the Rubicon women together than pregnancy, cancer, or coming of age ever did...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.