Used to Kill

by Lillian O'Donnell

Book Overview

Convinced that the police are wrong about the guilt of her client, Emma Trent, accused of the deaths of both her husbands, private investigator Gwen Ramadge vows to unmask the real killer and set her client free. 15,000 first printing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399137823
• ISBN13: 9780399137822
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly well written

As a rule, I avoid women authors, particularly it when comes to mystery novels. Female authors, as a rule, have poorly developed characters, often being idealized (and sometimes idolized as well), spend an inordinate amount of verbiage describing non-essentials (such as what clothing was worn in excessive and minute detail), typically have poorly defined plots and make the clues to obvious -- meaning it's often an easy solution. Ms. O'Donnell does spend too much time describing what her heroine is wearing (and I still fail to see it's relevance in most instances) but at least she doesn't go into minute details, such as what kind of buttons were on the clothing. Ms. O'Donnell's clues were not too bad but she did set up the solution early on and it was a little too obvious and I think could have been finessed better to leave the reader in more doubt as to who the villain was. However, her handling of the final clue(s) was superb. Her plot was well thought out and her characters were real. I look forward to reading her later books to see how she develops as an author.