Amy Bloom has written her first crime novel, Blunt Instrument. What a wild ride it is . We follow self-taught private investigator, Dell Chandler, as she takes on her first solo case. Dell was professor of English before she was fired from her position. The year her mother died she did everything she could do wrong in the job and ended up without a career. Her Uncle Lou, who she had worked for through her teenage years, helping him with his private investigator firm, Martinez and Associates, offered to take her on as a partner. She learned what she could from watching Law & Order. Then she went to the gun range and learned how to shoot for protection.
Now her uncle is gone and her father has given her name to the Cromwell College president, Elizabeth Curry, as someone who can find the killer of Professor Oliver Bullfinch. Killed in his office, Curry wants to find an answer quickly and the police have not been able to find the killer. Dell sets to work trying to smoke out the killer. She runs into many obstacles along the way. The police do not want to share information. She has angered a few people and they are trying to scare her away.
She might be falling in love and she is not really sure who she can trust. Someone who seems like a friend could be or they could be a suspect. As Dell negotiates her way through the suspect list and tries to keep herself, her father and her godfather, Theo Gurwitz, who was her mother’s closest friend, safe. At seventy five he was blind and supposed to be retired but was still teaching on class at Cromwell.
This novel takes the mystery plot a little deeper, building character development to round out the private investigator and the prime suspects personalities. Giving more depth to the relationships and motives. Clever dialog and descriptions make this a perfect read.
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