The Fourth Steven

by Margaret Moseley

When book rep Honey Huckleberry answers her phone, she's not surprised to hear that it's her friend Steven, one of them anyway. But when he confesses to murder, Honey's sure this Steven is no friend... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425164063
• ISBN13: 9780425164068
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

great fun

I picked this book up expecting another ho-hum female PI, and barely enough going on to hold my attention. Instead, I got a real pleasure that i carried around until i had finished it (same day I started). The characters are interesting and a little eccentric, and eccentric without being stupid. The plot is good, but really secondary to the interplay of the charcters. First thing this morning i logged on to order the rest of Ms. Moseley's books. I highly recommend this book

A "Honey" of a Character!

Margaret Moseley will capture you with this new series! It is dark and suspenseful as well as delightful. How can you go wrong with a character named Honey Huckleberry? Honey lives alone in the house that her parents left to her after they died. She is left alone to make her own tight schedules and run her business. The close friends that she has all happen to be named Steven. One evening she answers her phone to hear that it is Steven, or is it? When Steven confesses to murder, Honey must find out what is happening in her world of "Stevens". Honey is an off-beat character who is full of intrigue. Thank you Miss Moseley for this wonderful series!

The Fourth Steven will make a mystery fan of anyone!

Never having been particularly interested in mysteries, I began "The Fourth Steven" with few expectations. But Ms. Moseley's unique style and sense of humor soon had me enthralled. Her intricate and finely drawn characterization of Honey Huckleberry has given the mystery world a humorous and touching heroine. Her story is told in a compelling and unusual voice that instantly drew me in and kept me turning pages far into the night. Like peeling an onion, the author gives us ever deeper layers of Honey, leading us gently but inexorably to the heart of this fascinating character. I don't normally enjoy mystery series, but having met the characters in this venture, I must read the succesive books and revisit my new favorite heroine. I highly recommend this wonderful book to anyone, mystery fan or not.

Margaret Moseley has a WINNER

In this book, Margarte Moseley introduces a new sleuth, Honey Huckleberry (wasn't I worth a real name?). Our story starts when Honey gets a phone call from Steven with a quote from a favorite poem. Not being sure which Steven it is, she just responds with "Oh, Steven" and the caller rushes on to tell her that "the man is dead". Now she is sure it's no friend. Shocked, she says "This is Lydia, stop playing around" and hangs up. She makes a police report about the call and continues on with her life. She is a book publishers rep and is getting ready for her spring selling trip. Her first stop is at Pages, a mostly mystery bookshop, where she tells owner and friend, Janie, about her phone call. Janie gets caught up in her story and wants to investigate, to which Honey says OK,; she does so while Honey continues on her trip. 2 weeks later, en route home, Honey gets a call from "Steven", using her real name and when she realizes he knows her name and her itinerary, she realizes he is in her home. Frantically, she rushes out of the hotel and toward home. When she gets there, she finds a friend on the floor of her living room dying. It is one of her Stevens. The other two are in danger. Honey turns reluctant sleuth. Either very wierd or endearingly eccentric, this is a hard role for Honey to take on. She has lived by herself since the death of her parents, one day apart, 10 years ago. Since she still lives in their house, she just kept "living by their rules". She has few friends, and nobody is allowed into her house. She si very structured, having her itinerary fixed on a daily basis, even the clothes for her trips are prepackaged and labeled and waiting for her to pick up from the closet for each trip. It is fun watching her bloom, develope friendships and even find a touch of romance. The characters are real--and you find yourself caring about them after the story has ended. wanting to know them more. Though written in off-beat humor, there is a mystery to be solved.( Yours truely missed the clues.) Hurry, Miss Moseley, MORE HONEY, please.

Steven by Steven it Comes Together

"The Fourth Steven" was well worth waiting for! Margaret Moseley's Honey Huckleberry was charming. Although hesitant to be an active detective, she still succeeds in collecting the bits of information necessary to uncover the killer, even after her accomplice in detecting has given up!The long awaited follow-up to "Bonita Faye" succeeds in the same way that Bonita did -- with humor, endearing characters, and intelligence. I'm looking forward to our next encounter with Honey Huckleberry!