From USA Today bestselling author Gin Jones comes the latest Helen Binney adventure about a feisty woman in a murderous situation…Determined to live her best life, Helen Binney heads to a patient conference to learn more about overcoming the challenges of lupus. But instead of medical answers, what she finds is a dead body! The murdered doctor was killed beneath a poster display promoting a … newly developed treatment-one that has both grateful patients and outspoken critics. Luckily Helen’s handsome ex-lawyer boyfriend, Tate, is along for the ride-and what was supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway after the conference ended. With romance on hold, and Helen under suspicion by the police, it’s up to her and Tate to ferret out a killer among a slew of likely suspects who had an axe to grind with the doctor, including an intrusive photographer, a rival doctor, and a lawyer who was working to get the victim’s medical license revoked. With everyone a suspect and no one safe, Helen is in danger of becoming part of another display of death!
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A Display of Death is another outstanding entry in the Helen Binney Mysteries series. The independent Helen constantly battles the debilitation that Lupus can wreak on the human body, insisting on being a vital part of the struggle to address all the health issues that limit her activities no matter how hard she fights. In an effort to learn as much as possible about the disease, Helen attends a Lupus conference to add to the knowledge she has acquired through her own research. Lupus affects individuals differently so it is difficult to learn enough about it to answer half of her questions. So far there is no cure only maintenance and no accepted protocol for addressing the multitude of side effects that can strike.
As if dealing with that great enemy is not enough, she finds herself compelled to resolve a murder when she once again discovers the body of a murder victim during the conference. Since Tate has traveled to Boston with her, he is on hand to back her up and to try to keep her out of trouble. Of course that was not the reason he accompanied her; romance was the plan.
“Display of Death” earns 5/5 Event Badges…Clever and Engaging!
I am a fan of Gin Jones’s Danger Cove Famers’ Market and Danger Cove Quilting Mystery books, so it wasn’t hard to convince me to try her Helen Binney Mystery series. Of course, there’s always a danger of losing a reader’s attention when starting well into a series, but there was enough background and character connection revisited to keep me engaged. Often cozy mystery books have characters dealing with some degree of tragic circumstances that spur them on or add a subplot, but Gin’s female lead Helen Binney has quite a unique challenge. She has lupus and her disease is given respectful attention by highlighting her challenges from walking to opening heavy doors and lifting heavy items. This adds interesting realism when the character is in the middle of a murder investigation. Having Helen attend a conference on lupus seems to be the perfect event to connect with doctors and other patients, ask questions, and get insights from experts to keep abreast of current trends and treatments, but murder was the last thing she thought she’d find on the schedule of events. The murder mystery was involved with several avenues of questioning, suspects, and motives. I personally narrowed my list down to two very good possibilities, so at the final reveal I was pleased I had followed the clues well. However, I prefer a first-person narrative, but the lack of an “I” perspective did not effect my enjoyment. Gin’s writing style and wonderful characters made this an entertaining page-turner.
A display of Death is the latest Helen Binney mystery from Gin Jones. This book is extremely well written mystery with many suspects. Who killed the doctor who claims to have a cure for lupus? The police suspect Helen for a while. Helen and Tate work to uncover the true culprit. I did not guess the murderer. I thoroughly enjoy the character of Helen Binney, the divorced, former first lady of Massachusetts, who suffers from lupus but does not give into the disease. I found it best to just keep reading as I could not put down the book!