In Jerry Kennealy’s Jigsaw we meet San Francisco Bulletin entertainment critic Carroll Quint.
A killer calling himself Thanatos (the Greek God of death) has been sending him e-mails taunting him with clues from Alfred Hitchcock films.
Quint is the one person connected to all three victims, which makes him the prime suspect.
There is some lighthearted fun here along with the suspense.
True to the Hitchcock tradition, the mystery is harder to puzzle out than you first imagine it will be.
Quint’s one-time starlet and movie trivia buff mother tells him, “Thanatos is like one of the midgets in Casablanca, Carroll. He’s right there, you see him, but you don’t take any notice.”
There were midgets in Casablanca?
