Death on the River Walk

Feel badly just giving this book 3 stars. She's a good mystery author but first time I've read one of her books and not to my taste. I don't like wasted words describing every dish on a buffet the character encounters at a party or a description of most of the items on the shelves of a shop. I skip......more

New pet peeve: Mystery writers who fill pages with "PI reports" and "news clippings" instead of weaving information into the story. Like the songs in LOTR , all this noise is best skipped over... and what's left isn't all that compelling.......more

This reads like an episode of "Murder She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury as Henrie-O Collins. Hart provides rich detail of the antique art scene in San Antonio, and the mystery surrounding a stolen horde of gold from a Mexican museum is involving. There are a few too many players, however, which lessen......more

Picked this up because the story was set in San Antonio where my mother's family was from. Quick read. The story involves a family that owns an art gallery of sorts on the Riverwalk and it was probably just me, but there were a lot of family members in the story and I had a hard time remembering who......more