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Detective
Mitch Gallagher is spending far too much time at Rayex Corporation. The chemical company is the site of the
murder at the center of his newest case.
He’s become obsessed with this latest case, the
murder of David Forjane,
to the detriment of everything else in his life, including his health. He’s depressed, obsessed with food and
coffee, and well on the way to an ulcer and a heart attack. Complicating his life is a recently hired
employee, Tess McConnell. She’s just as
determined to figure things out.
Tess
McConnell, newcomer to town and new to the company, is a mystery to
Mitch. And as a cop he hates mysteries,
especially a
feisty one determined to investigate things herself.
Tess, herself, isn’t sure exactly why she was
hired, where her officemates are, or anything else except that the
boss’s death
isn’t exactly mourned, as everyone would like the police to believe. Her instincts are screaming that this death
is far more than it seems and she sets out to find the answers herself.
Ms.
O’Connor’s novel is a classic police procedural novel with very little
romance. The romance is mostly
flirtations and has ill-timed overtures by Mitch. As
a reader of forensics and police
procedural non-fiction, I can state with certainty that No
Accident is very accurate in
those
parts. With its strangely quirky and
realistic characters, this novel is definitely a trip.
Read it for the mystery and the laughs, but
not the romance, as it’s a very romance-light book.
Reviewed
by Meribeth McCombs for The Road to Romance
June 14, 2004
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