Crazy Fool Kills Five: A Fifi Cutter Mystery
by Gwen Freeman
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Author: Gwen FreemanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 0979996007
Number of pages: 250
Publisher: Capital Crime Press
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Book Review: Another Quirky Hit
Summary: 5 Stars
In the incident that inspires the title, an ex-employee of Skyblu Charter Jet Services stormed the cockpit of a plane, shooting the pilot and causing a crash that killed all five on board, not to mention a poor Winnebago owner who was smooshed by falling pieces of the plane while he was sitting on the couch having a beer. Hired by her friend and attorney Victoria Jane "VJ" Smith, who represents the widow of the couch victim, it's freelance insurance investigator Fifi Cutter's job to find evidence placing blame on both the airline for hiring the shooter in the first place as well as the makers of the plane for not placing a barrier between the passengers and the pilots. After a less-than-successful attempt to expose a workers' compensation claimant resulted in her getting thrown out of a gym, Fifi is desperate for a case that will keep her in her house, not to mention basic cable payments. Helped and hindered by her lazy and parasitic half brother Bosco, Fifi must prove that Skyblu, the airplane builder company Grund, and their insurance carriers are liable, and it's unfortunate that the one of Skyblu's attorney happens to be the eminently attractive Daniel Boatwright. When the defendants offer a settlement to the passengers' survivors, Fifi is immediately suspicious, and she soon discovers an elaborate scheme that leads to her own kidnapping and places both herself and her brother at risk.
With a quirky cartoon cover (drawn by the author), this follow-up to Murder... Suicide...Whatever... continues to entertain with its mix of outrageousness and realism (displayed in well-written court scenes). Despite the incestuous and often confusing interrelationships between insurance carriers, their clients, and the claimants, Freeman presents and entirely original and entertaining mystery with a very believable, if crabby, heroine. A bi-racial young woman, Fifi alternately attempts to nudge her white half-brother into growing up while resisting to do the same when lectured to by her oppressively rigid other half-brother, a black policeman. Fifi is no doormat, and her perseverance, humor, and wit make her a delight to read. This is an engaging, funny, and extremely unique mystery in a series that continues to entertain.
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Fifi Cutter, the accidental private investigator, is back in the mystery biz in this second in the series, helping attorney V.J. Smith try a wrongful death case where the wrongful deaths continue to pile up.Literature & Fiction Books
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