Murder by Proxy is the second book in the Edna Davies mystery series. Edna travels to Denver to help out her son and expecting daughter-in-law. While there, she gets involved in an investigation of a friend of her son's. A private detective enlists her help, as her son has refused to speak to him.
I didn't really care for this story, not that it was awful, but it just seemed so unlikely on too many levels.
Her son's first wife is killed in a ski accident, and two months later he remarries. A friend of her son's, Anita, disappears, and because she had called 6 weeks earlier and said she needed some time to herself, he assumes she is okay, even though she has not contacted any of her friends since then. And he is angry if anyone asks about her, including his mother. Another friend of her son's family, Lia, is killed in a hit and run accident that appears to be deliberate, but nothing is said about the police doing an investigation.
A man comes up to Edna and says he's a private detective and asks her to find out things from her son about the missing girl, and even though he never shows her any proof he is who he says he is, she goes along with him. She asks for a phone number for him, and he doesn't give her one, but says he'll call her. He tells her he's looking for the missing girl because she is the heir to a small fortune, if she meets a relative before she passes away, or the money goes to someone else. And she believes him and meets with him to give him all the information she can.
I could have gone along with one or two of the points above, but there were just too many to let me actually enjoy reading the story.
This fulfills a requirement of the A to Z Reading Challenge
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