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The Opium Equation: A Cat Enright Mystery

Lisa Wysocky
Cool Titles (2011)
ISBN 9781935270065
Reviewed by Melissa Koltes for RebeccasReads (07/11)

Cat Enright is young and owns a horse stable.  She trains horses and riders for the circuit.  Her passion for horses is her life but she has a sad past.  That past ties her, unknowingly, to a bratty little boy that lives down the road. 

When one of her students is murdered and the boy disappears, Cat begins her own investigation into what happened and where is the missing boy. 

Throughout the story there are several characters that are rather pointless and somewhat annoying.  Other characters pop in with some new found information that they are excited about.  The problem is the information makes no sense to the reader…there is no explanation as to why this knowledge is important. 

Since the story is written in the first person the reader does not have all the facts to figure out the “who done it” and that is half the fun of a mystery novel…being able to sort out the clues. 

The voices/tones that some of the characters have is a bit too much, making them sound silly rather than genuine.

That all said, the author does a very nice job of tying up the loose ends and once she gets into her rhythm puts on a pretty good story with many exciting scenes that leave the reader glad they picked up the book.

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