{"id":868,"date":"1991-12-07T17:11:37","date_gmt":"1991-12-07T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-07-07T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:14:55","slug":"murder-is-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/murder-is-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Is Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1991Winter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 3, No 4, Winter 1991<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-869\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"murder is\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/murder-is.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of Murder Is Relative\" width=\"128\" height=\"199\" \/><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/21524729\">Murder Is Relative. By Karen Saum. Naiad Press, 1991.\u00a0Paper. $8.95. (ISBN 0-941483-70-3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Brigid Donovan mystery. Called by Claire Du\u00a0Lac to Quebec from her home in Greenville, Maine, Brigid\u00a0Donovan is offered the job of writing the history of\u00a0H.O.P.E. (Helping Others, the Poor Especially), an\u00a0organization whose aims are &#8220;to alleviate human suffering\u00a0in whatever form it appears.&#8221; This is a cover for Brigid&#8217;s\u00a0real assignment, the investigation of the death of Du Lac&#8217;s\u00a0son-in-law David Thorne. Is Thorne&#8217;s daughter,\u00a0Genevieve, in the cloister willingly or as a captive? The\u00a0Thorne family relationships are very complex as Brigid\u00a0soon learns. As she unravels them, she dashes about the\u00a0country at a sometimes frenetic and humorous pace.<\/p>\n<p>Thin as a mystery, but a good read as the story of\u00a0Brigid and those with whom she interacts. Brigid is a\u00a0recovering alcoholic and the detailing of her struggle with\u00a0recovery is well handled (although her frequent checking\u00a0of her &#8221;meeting book&#8221; is a bit tiring).<\/p>\n<p>Recommended for larger collections.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>David Streeter<\/strong><br \/>\nPomona Public Ubrary<br \/>\nPomona, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 3, No 4, Winter 1991. Murder Is Relative. By Karen Saum. Naiad Press, 1991.\u00a0Paper. $8.95. (ISBN 0-941483-70-3) A Brigid Donovan mystery. Called by Claire Du\u00a0Lac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}