Miss Kopp Investigates
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Booklist Review
The rug is pulled out from under the Kopp sisters in the seventh series entry, following Dear Miss Kopp (2021) after the unexpected death of their brother, Francis. Suddenly Constance's new job training female police officers, Norma's plans to travel Europe, and Fleurette's preparations to strike out on her own are seconded to the imperative of supporting Francis' widow, Bessie, and their children. Decisive Norma bulldozes them into order: they'll sell the Kopp farm, move in next door to Bessie, and get jobs to replace Francis' salary. While former deputy Constance swallows her pride and signs on as a department-store detective, Fleurette secretly begins a lucrative role in a law firm's ethically blurry service to help men secure divorces. But the Kopp women must face their plan's inadequacies when a host of overdue accounts reveal that Francis was keeping devastating secrets. Fleurette, the focus this time around, comes into her own as subterfuge and legal shenanigans move her to unmask a wily scam artist. Stewart, gifted at bringing women's issues to life, illustrates the complex legal and financial challenges facing women after WWI, and concludes with an exciting development in the Kopp women's future. Another strong entry for this historically fact-based series that's a sure bet for grown-up Nancy Drew fans.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Set in 1919, Stewart's fascinating seventh Kopp Sisters novel (after Dear Miss Kopp) finds the three sisters--Constance, Norma, and Fleurette--back home in Paterson, N.J., for the funeral of their brother, Francis, who died suddenly, leaving behind his pregnant wife, Bessie, and two children. Francis also left a mountain of debt. The sisters determine to help Bessie financially, but how many salaries would the women have to earn to match that of a man? The focus is on Fleurette, the youngest and prettiest of the sisters, who becomes a professional co-respondent, posing for decorous photographs with married men, which will be used as evidence in their divorce proceedings. She befriends a client and embarks on the road to becoming an investigator. Readers expecting to jump immediately into a mystery are advised to be patient. The book's main appeal is the edifying way Stewart makes clear the condition of women a century ago without getting maudlin. The ending points to an exciting new development in the Kopps' crime fighting careers. Series fans will eagerly await the next installment. Agent: Michelle Tessler, Tessler Literary. (Sept.)
Kirkus Book Review
Youngest sibling Fleurette takes up sleuthing on her own in the seventh Kopp Sisters adventure. It opens on a grim note: The sudden death of their brother, Francis, in January 1919 has left the sisters responsible for his pregnant widow, his two older children, and a mountain of debt they had no inkling of. Each of them makes painful sacrifices: Constance gives up her dream job with the FBI in Washington; Norma abandons her plan to live a freer life in Europe; and a bout with scarlet fever has damaged Fleurette's voice and her nascent stage career. She's delighted when a lawyer offers her a well-paying gig as a "professional co-respondent," helping couples who need to prove adultery to get divorced by posing for compromising photos with the husbands. Although nothing even close to adultery occurs, Fleurette knows her sisters would disapprove, and indeed Constance explodes when she finds out. But Fleurette is sick of being told what to do by Constance and storms off; her ignorance of the fact (which readers of previous novels already know) that she is actually Constance's illegitimate daughter makes their conflict in this volume particularly wrenching. However, the mysterious behavior of one of the lawyer's clients gets Fleurette involved in what proves to be a confidence scam targeting vulnerable women, and her attempts to bring the wrongdoer to justice land her in jail. Her sisters come to the rescue, each making her individual, forceful contribution to the satisfying resolution of multiple mysteries: Norma's overbearing nature is instrumental in unravelling Francis' catastrophic finances; Constance enlists her law enforcement know-how to smooth over Fleurette's legal troubles. (As usual, Stewart explains in endnotes what in this fact-based story actually happened and what she invented.) It's a pleasure to watch Fleurette, rather tiresomely vain and self-centered in earlier novels, mature into a strong, independent woman very much in the Kopp mold. As always, Stewart leaves us with the welcome promise of more Kopp sisters adventures to come. One of the strongest entries yet in this deservedly popular historical series. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Reviews
*Starred Review* The rug is pulled out from under the Kopp sisters in the seventh series entry, following Dear Miss Kopp (2021) after the unexpected death of their brother, Francis. Suddenly Constance's new job training female police officers, Norma's plans to travel Europe, and Fleurette's preparations to strike out on her own are seconded to the imperative of supporting Francis' widow, Bessie, and their children. Decisive Norma bulldozes them into order: they'll sell the Kopp farm, move in next door to Bessie, and get jobs to replace Francis' salary. While former deputy Constance swallows her pride and signs on as a department-store detective, Fleurette secretly begins a lucrative role in a law firm's ethically blurry service to help men secure divorces. But the Kopp women must face their plan's inadequacies when a host of overdue accounts reveal that Francis was keeping devastating secrets. Fleurette, the focus this time around, comes into her own as subterfuge and legal shenanigans move her to unmask a wily scam artist. Stewart, gifted at bringing women's issues to life, illustrates the complex legal and financial challenges facing women after WWI, and concludes with an exciting development in the Kopp women's future. Another strong entry for this historically fact-based series that's a sure bet for grown-up Nancy Drew fans. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews.
Library Journal Reviews
In Road of Bones, next in Barry/Macavity nominee Benn's World War II-set series, American Billy Boyle and the Soviet agent with whom he's partnered are aided by a group of tough young Soviet women pilots when investigating the murder of two intelligence agents, one American and one Soviet. In this wrap-up to Camilleri's best-selling "Inspector Montalbano" series, a man named Riccardino dials the wrong number, reaching the inspector, then later ends up murdered. From Hambly, it's the Scandal in Babylon! Movie star Kitty Flint is accused of murder in 1924 Hollywood, and assistant Emma Blackstone is determined to clear her name. From Barry Award finalist Kope, Echoes of the Dead brings back Magnus "Steps" Craig as part of the FBI's elite three-man Special Tracking Unit, using his "shine"—that is, his ability to intuit people's essence from what they have touched—to help track four missing men in the Sierra Nevada (35,000-copy first printing). Head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, Mayor's longtime hero Joe Gunther discovers that deceased philanthropist/millionaire Nathan Lyon was actually a Marked Man, rolling in dough from the Mafia, and didn't die a natural death; now family members are starting to meet his fate (35,000-copy first printing). In The House of Ashes, from Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner and multi-short-listed Neville, Sara Keane feels isolated after her husband moves them from England to his native Northern Ireland in the wake of her breakdown, then learns that the house they're living in has a bad and bloody history. In Perry's A Darker Reality, MI6-linked American photographer Elena Standish has returned from pre—World War II Europe to Washington, DC, for her parents' anniversary celebration, but when British spy Lila Worth is killed as she arrives at the event, Elena checks out Lila's caseload and begins suspecting her grandfather of nefarious secrets. In a futuristic New York, Robb's famous homicide detective Eve Dallas wants to make sure that two women—a murdered street dweller who sold paper flowers and chatted up the police and a beautifully dressed corpse that's decades old—are not Forgotten in Death (750,000-copy first printing). In Stewart's Miss Kopp Investigates, the Kopp sisters are back in America at the close of World War I, with Fleurette working what her family sees as the rather disreputable job of posing as "the other woman" in divorce cases when she stumbles upon a serious crime (25,000-copy hardcover and 3,000-copy paperback first printing).
Copyright 2021 Library Journal.Publishers Weekly Reviews
Set in 1919, Stewart's fascinating seventh Kopp Sisters novel (after Dear Miss Kopp) finds the three sisters—Constance, Norma, and Fleurette—back home in Paterson, N.J., for the funeral of their brother, Francis, who died suddenly, leaving behind his pregnant wife, Bessie, and two children. Francis also left a mountain of debt. The sisters determine to help Bessie financially, but how many salaries would the women have to earn to match that of a man? The focus is on Fleurette, the youngest and prettiest of the sisters, who becomes a professional co-respondent, posing for decorous photographs with married men, which will be used as evidence in their divorce proceedings. She befriends a client and embarks on the road to becoming an investigator. Readers expecting to jump immediately into a mystery are advised to be patient. The book's main appeal is the edifying way Stewart makes clear the condition of women a century ago without getting maudlin. The ending points to an exciting new development in the Kopps' crime fighting careers. Series fans will eagerly await the next installment. Agent: Michelle Tessler, Tessler Literary. (Sept.)
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Citations
Stewart, A., & Moore, C. (2021). Miss Kopp Investigates (Unabridged). Recorded Books, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy and Christina Moore. 2021. Miss Kopp Investigates. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy and Christina Moore. Miss Kopp Investigates Recorded Books, Inc, 2021.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Stewart, A. and Moore, C. (2021). Miss kopp investigates. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy, and Christina Moore. Miss Kopp Investigates Unabridged, Recorded Books, Inc., 2021.
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