During the summer vacation, Molly Martin has a business opportunity to return to her former home in Boulder, Colorado. All she has to do is agree to teach a seminar on writing greeting cards at a rustic mountain resort. With her spouse Jim away on business, Molly, owner of Friendly FAX, accepts. Her best friend Lauren agrees to watch her two kids as well as her own child.
When they arrive in nearby Evansville, they are stunned by the fact that their rooms are filthy dumps that look unfit for human usage. Molly hosts a greeting cards seminar attended by five angry women, who agree with her assessment. During the first exercise, one of the attendees anonymously slips a threatening note into the bowl that is used to collect creative thoughts by the women. The next morning, Molly's friend Allison is dead and the police believes Molly is the prime suspect. She begins to dig into the background of the participants by questioning each of them and other related individuals.
THE FAX OF LIFE is an entertaining, quite amusing cozy. Like the previous novel, The Cold Hard Fax, this amateur sleuth mystery centers on the humorous Molly. Readers will enjoy the interesting mystery, but what makes this novel and series special is the master humorist ability of Leslie O'Kane, who instills her mysteries with endearing characters.
Harriet Klausner
