Hunting for Hemingway (D.D. McGil Literati Mystery Series #2) Book

Although insurance investigator DD McGil has always had her choice of lovers, she’s been spectacularly unlucky in love. Now one of DD’s former flames, Hemingway expert David Barnes, claims to have recovered the legendary stories and poems that Hemingway’s first wife lost while on a train to Switzerland in 1922. Barnes plans to auction them off for millions, but controversy rages. Are they truly the lost Hemingway works or are they forgeries? Found? Or stolen? DD’s quest to prove the manuscripts genuine puts her on the trail of a killer. The hunter quickly becomes the hunted when someone tries to stop her—dead.

Publishers Weekly

A real-life literary loss--in December 1922, Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, left a valise at a Paris train station containing manuscripts of 22 stories, the beginning of a novel, and 20 poems--provides the enticing hook for Madsen's uneven second mystery featuring Chicago insurance investigator DD (Daphne December) McGil. DD is shocked to learn that an ex-boyfriend of hers, noted Hemingway expert David Barnes, has received the missing valise from an anonymous source. After the discovery's reported on the news, David's shot dead. DD, who recently visited David, becomes a suspect, and the Hemingway manuscripts (or are they forgeries?) vanish again. As DD works to clear her name, she gets lucky in the helpful hunk department with Mitch Sinclair, a computer expert assisting her on a case involving stolen software. Unfortunately, this second case lacks the interest of the search for the Hemingway treasure. A lackluster denouement doesn't do the premise justice. (Sept.)