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Maxie McNabb, a 63-year-old widow, left her home in Alaska to drive a small (30-foot) Winnebago around the lower 48 states. She travels alone, except for her second husband's miniature dachshund, Stretch. In her first adventure, she found an old friend dead in Colorado. Now it is a year later and she is on her way to Taos, New Mexico, before the hot weather sets in. Taos is the home of many artisans, including some great weavers. There's a yarn shop that Maxie wants to visit. She has ordered yarn from them for years for her knitting projects, but she just wants to meet the owner and see the fabulous colors and textures in their own home. She and Pat Dozier, the owner of Weaving Southwest, hit it off immediately and go out to lunch together. While at lunch, the topic of Shirley Morgan, who is in the hospital after an apparent attempted suicide, comes up. Pat asks Maxie to drive her to see Shirley, and to Maxie's surprise, Pat comes out of the hospital with Shirley in tow. Shirley just wants to leave the hospital. Maxie asks Shirley to stay with her for a night or so until she can get on her feet, and Shirley gratefully accepts. Shirley tells of losing $100,000 to a con man. The next morning, Maxie goes out to breakfast leaving Shirley alone in the camper. When she returns, Shirley is gone, with no note or message of any sort. The next time Maxie sees Shirley, she is dead. And then the camper is broken into. What has Maxie let herself in for? Maxie and Stretch are fun characters. Maxie proves that older single women are not helpless individuals. However, THE TOOTH OF TIME reads more like a travelogue for the beautiful scenery of New Mexico and the artistry of the weavers of Taos than anything else. Oh yes, there's a mystery and it is solved and Maxie runs across a man she had met in Alaska. And since it is a book by Sue Henry, I'll probably read the next one, but I hope there is more to it than to this one. Or maybe I just prefer her musher Jessie Arnold (MURDER ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL) as a character.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, April 2006
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