?Sudoku Puzzle Murders? not as fun as it sounds
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“The Sukoku Puzzle Murders:
A Puzzle Lady Mystery,”
By Parnell Hall
St. Martin’s Minotaur
Hardback, $23.95
308 pages
I can stomach the occasional cozy/comedy mystery, but this ninth Puzzle Lady mystery was definitely not my cup of tea.
This series is about a merry divorcee named Cora Felton, who maintains a public persona as a composer and solver of the wordgames many of us find delightfully aggravating — or vice versa, whatever.
The McGuffin, though, is that Cora finds herself at a loss for words whenever confronted by a crossword. It’s her niece, Sherry, who solves and composes them, with Cora serving as the charmingly deceptive face of the operation.
