Reviews for Dead Body Language (Connor Westphal Series #1)

The average rating for Dead Body Language (Connor Westphal Series #1) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-23 00:00:00 Rob Clune Connor Westphal has moved from San Francisco to the town of Flat Skunk in California's gold country, where she is running the weekly paper she inherited from her grandparents. When Lacy Penzance comes in to place an ad to track down her long-lost sister, Connor readily agrees. Then Lacy takes back her ad. The next morning, Lacy is found dead. The sheriff doesn't think it is the suicide it was staged to look like. Under the guise of writing an article about Lacy, Connor begins to investigate. Will she find the killer? What I haven't mentioned so far is that Connor is deaf. I found this character trait to be an interesting addition to the mystery, and it really added suspense to the climax. Connor is an all-around strong character, and I enjoyed getting to meet her friends here as well. The plot is strong, although I have a couple niggles about who the killer turned out to be. Even so, I have to admire the strong plotting; I missed several major clues. I did find there to be a few more four-letter words than I was expecting, and I think there were timeline issues, although I might have added an extra day in there somewhere as I was reading. I originally read this book close to when it was originally released in 1997, but I never read the rest of the series. I'm looking forward to fixing that soon. Read my full review at Carstairs Considers.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-29 00:00:00 Luis Dodson Connor Westphal has traded her stressful life in San Francisco for a slower pace in Gold Rush country. A local doyenne approaches her to take out an add in the weekly newspaper, but is mysteriously killed before anything can happen. Despite being deaf, Connor pokes around. Her office neighbor goes missing, there's another death, and a handsome galoot shows up. A well constructed mystery. It's too bad Penny Warner doesn't seem to be writing much anymore.