Maximum Insecurity
 P. J. Grady
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 1999 Avocet Press
  ISBN: 0966107241


A Matty Madrid Mystery where the Sante Fe PI enters the Texas State Prison at the pleading of her erstwhile inmate husband who has given his word to someone on the inside & needs Matty to follow through.

A prickly thriller full of eccentrically ordinary people touched in many ways by the penitentiary at the center of all their lives.

This is a mystery with attitude -- that of inmates with IQs lower than degrees Centigrade on a good day & a slew of cactus & sand-tough women with minds of their own, even if they're a bit dim when it comes to clues.

Nothing earth-shaking -- just a solid mystery, set in an unusual location with tough folks in tough situations doing the worst & best they can think of, blended in with a series of opportunities for redemption that frustratingly don't pan out -- for the characters that is! Just like life -- some things do not get finished, resolved or closed.

P. J. Grady has managed to get “Spanglish” down well -- with my funny English accent it all sounded a little crazy -- Mary Poppins meets up with Cheech & Chong at Family Day inside the slammer.

Read Maximum Insecurity -- you might like it -- then hunt up P. J. Grady's next Matty Madrid Mystery.
(01/27/02)

Rebecca