Kathryn Miller Haines: The War against Miss Winter

THE WAR AGAINST MISS WINTER by Kathryn Miller Haines (2007) is the first of the Miss Winter mystery series.

In a nutshell:

Rosie Winter is a not so successful actress in New York, who works also in Jim McCain’s detective bureau. On New Year’s Eve 1942 she finds her boss dead in the bureau’s closet. The police is thinking of suicide – so Rosie starts to find out on her own what happened to him – and learns very soon, that not only Jim was searching for a mysterious theatrical play...

Rosie is a very quick at repartee – sometimes too quick. In the beginning I loved that but in the end I found her a bit nerve-racking – but I loved the minor parts!

There are Jayne, who is Rosie’s best friend and roommate, who is also an actress - with an hourglass figure and a voice like Betty Boop;



Tony a mobster, who is deeply in love with Jayne; Al, Tony’s “employee” who is build like an ox and a very sweet person – and a tom cat named Churchill - to whom Rosie has a kind of "cold war relationship". ;")

I will read the following Rosie Winter mysteries too – just because I want to read more about those fabulous minor characters!

It's a fun read - a bit like a classic 1940ies detective film only with a female detective.. ;")

Here is the German cover:

The German title is MISS WINTERS HANG ZUM RISIKO (= Miss Winter's liability to risk)

Doesn't this Miss Winter look like classic actress Gene Tierney?

Yes, I know, it's another hat - but still.. ;")

This book fits in two of my challenges:

• The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2011 - because it is settled in 1943 New York
  
  
• LGBT Book Challenge 2011 - because some mini characters are homosexual men.