Death in Blue Folders

By Margaret Maron

Book Overview

THIRD IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps 'special' cases in blue folders that only he can access, but when Gladwell announces his impending retirement, someone decides that Blue Folder secrets aren't safe unless everyone connected to them is dead. From a long-dead movie star, the owner of a trendy art gallery, and an Algonquin Roundtable personality to a senile resident in a nursing home and a broken-down cleaning woman, Lt. Harald must figure out who hated or feared Gladwell enough to shoot him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385198086
• ISBN13: 9780385198080
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sigrid Harald, #3 of 8, well done!

...This follows the basic form of most of her titles -- a murder occurs fairly early in the tale, as here, often in chapter one, and we work the clues and the successor crimes with Sigrid and her police colleagues until she nabs her crook. Usually the character descriptions and set changes are what I've heretofore referred to as "minimalist", yet make no mistake that Maron is a fine writer who conveys anything she really wishes to with little difficulty.The plot provides an immediate abundance of suspects, as the blue folders in question are the "private" files set aside without even the knowledge of his staff by a killed-before-he-could-retire lawyer. It seems clear from the outset from a quick look at his bank account that he was blackmailing these special clients; while Maron chips away at first one then the other of the half dozen or more targets, she solves in an interesting way the mini-mysteries of why each person was being blackmailed. So we get some ongoing resolutions while working the main case to a conclusion, a very entertaining technique.The familiar cast members from previous and subsequent stories are just about all here, so this is a most representative member of the set. Highly recommend!