Gerry Mackay, the author of the Katie Maguire series, just wrote a nice review for Eliminating the Middleman.
Forman has done what few other authors have accomplished: kept me up all night reading his book. I may have lost some sleep, but once I picked up Eliminating The Middleman, I had to sit riveted to my favorite chair until I was finished.
As in the first book of this series, Dead Men Don't Jog, the engaging Maria Hart is recruited by her "sometimes" employer, Northeastern Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, to investigate another suspicious insurance claim. With an apparent serial killer on the loose, Maria enthusiastically takes the case, while at the same time helping the police to track down a murderer. The victims are all television infomercial stars, and Maria must travel from Chicago to New York to Milwaukee, viewing crime scenes and interviewing multiple suspects. With the intuitive Maria Hart relentlessly pursuing them, the bad guys always seem to get a little nervous. As a result, her own life is placed in imminent danger on more than one occasion, only this time we see the housewife-turned-sleuth emerge as something of an action/adventure hero. With the agility of a teenage gymnast, Maria maintains her cool, calm demeanor as she outmaneuvers a knife-wielding schizophrenic in Chicago, only to find herself facing the business end of a gun a week later in Syracuse. How does she get out of that one? Is this the end of the road for the resourceful and loveable Maria Hart?
Read the book and find out. And if you're like me, by the time you finish this book, you'll develop an insatiable craving for a lettuce and tomato sandwich.
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