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Peg Lynch, Affaire de Coeur says:
* * * * FOUR STARS!
Marengo Manor, a huge, dilapidated turn of the century boarding house in Pasadena, has been boarded up and deboarded by several groups over the years. It is presently occupied by a group of artists, musicians, actors, and college students. Jason Keltner had been among the first of the new occupants and helped fix up some of the rooms for his friends.
Emotionally reeling from his almost final divorce, Jason is further hurt when a young woman he met and was attracted to is murdered during her show in the most bizarre manner -- the use of a MIDI laser set. Jason's fascination with the use of computers in his field of music was shared by the technologically sophisticated young woman -- not too many of them around.
The police question Jason about the extent of his knowledge in the field of Musical Instrument Digital Interface -- he has none. Curiosity and a desire to catch the killer start him investigating her death. His "real job," reading the water meters of a large city, allows him plenty of discretionary time.
The use of a water facility is the scene of the ultimate entrapment of the murderer in a brilliant and complicated plan. This reviewer is fairly computer illiterate and had difficulty relating to the more detailed technology. The lack of same does not in any way diminish this fast-paced, slightly offbeat murder mystery.
--Peg Lynch
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