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The Iron Girl: A Jane Lawless Mystery (Jane Lawless Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellen Hart
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 757203
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0312317506
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312317508
ASIN: 0312317506
Publication Date: June 13, 2006
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After years spent mourning the death of her partner, Christine Kane, Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless thinks she’s ready to move on. That is, until she finds a gun among Christine’s belongings. The night before Christine died of cancer, three members of the Simoneau family, Christine’s real estate clients, were murdered. The timing of their deaths appeared coincidental and Jane always assumed Christine knew nothing of the family’s secrets. But as she searches for clues to understand what really happened all those many years ago, the gun and a few other discoveries begin to convince Jane otherwise.
Where past and present collide, Ellen Hart’s latest mystery in this Lambda and Minnesota Book Award–winning series proves that she remains one of the genre’s best.
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 The Iron Girl isn't *just* a statue- it's symbolic of Jane Lawless' perseverance March 19, 2008
Jane Lawless has been through a lot. She lost her mother during her formative years. Then, the love of her life, Christine, dies of cancer in 1987. In 2004, when this story takes place, Jane still has all of Christine's belongings in storage. It's time for her to move on, as she has met someone new. Jane is also going to invest in a new restaurant; she meets young Greta, who is interested in this project. Jane hires Greta to photograph the demolition and construction. It helps that Greta looks a lot like Christine. Jane is thrilled with her new friend. Cordelia thinks otherwise. Yes, Greta is escaping a dead-end relationship from unstable Calvin. But, is that all there is to Greta's past? Or is there more? Read and find out.
Jane is also trying to bring closure to Christine's involvement in the Simoneau murder case. Christine was helping the Simoneaus sell their house just days before the murders, and then Christine's death. What is Christine's connection? Why the gun? Was her mysterious death just cancer spreading too quickly and too painfully? Or, was foul play involved? You'll find out in this wonderfully written mystery!
Finally, in 1987, Dexter Haynes, hired hand and law student, was found guilty of the Simoneau murders. Is he guilty? Or, the victim of a racist justice system?
You'll be introduced to a wonderful collection of colorful characters. Eccentric Cordelia is sometimes so unbelievable, but she's also very important to Jane's strength of character. The remaining Simoneaus are incredibly whacky!!! This book is both funny and touching, and will leave you wanting more Jane Lawless!!!
I'm a Lawless Virgin October 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The subject line refers, of course, to the fact that this is the first Ellen Hart book I've read and her main character is Jane Lawless, chef, dog-lover, and amateur sleuth. If IRON GIRL is any indication of the quality of Ellen Hart's books, I will be reading them all, in short order. THE IRON GIRL was a cleverly plotted mystery (kudos to Hart for making the central crime, which occurred years before and off-stage so fascinating), but it was also much more. Hart fills her mystery with twists and turns just like others in her genre, but she also fills her mystery with intensely likable, all-too-human characters, a generous dose of pathos, and lots of humor.
Danger AND Romance July 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've read all of Hart's novels and while they are all well written, compelling and interesting stories, The Iron Girl is really, really good. A combination of danger, humor and romance kept me reading until the startling and satisfying conclusion.
This latest episode in the "Jane Lawless" series is more emotional and dramatic than anything Hart has done before. Ellen Hart has mastered the intricacies of serving plot and character in equal portions. The emotions are so real you'll find yourself drawn in and living the story.
Suspense and Drama at its Best! February 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Restaurant owner, Jane Lawless is embroiled yet again, in another mystery to solve. This one hits close to home. Very, very close in fact.
Convinced by her longtime friend Cordelia Thorn to open a restaurant with a business associate, Jane meets Greta, a young woman who eerily resembles her deceased lover Christine. Greta claims to be interested in photographing the rennovations as a school project. Cordelia, however, is not convinced of Greta's true motives. Why? What about the young woman is rubbing Cordelia the wrong way?
It's been several years since Jane lost Christine. But Jane now feels she is finally ready to sort out Christine's things. While going through the boxes that had been packed away, she finds something that has her questioning just how well she knew her lover. What could Christine have been involved in? And why wouldn't she have told Jane? How could what Jane found impact the feelings she still carries for Christine?
Then there is Jane's relationship with her new lover Kenzie Mullroy, a woman she met just a short time ago. A relationship that is still growing and could be put into danger by Jane's feelings for Greta. How? Will Jane's feelings for her longlost love, surfacing again with Greta's appearance, overide her feelings for her new one? Will Kenzie even stick around to find out?
The Iron Girl is an excellent offering by an extremely talented author. Ellen Hart presents a book filled with tremendous suspense, drama and intrigue, and demanding to be read. Just when you think you have the mystery solved, the author throws in a twist that has you trying hard not to cheat and skip to the end of the book!
Tension, Suspense, Danger and a Dead Ringer December 27, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jane Lawless has struggled and grieved over her partner Christine's death back in 1987, a long time ago, but now she's happy with someone else and after coming back from a vacation with new partner Kenzie, she finally decides she's ready go through Christine's things. However, as she's going through Christine's briefcase, she finds a gun that shouldn't be there and now she has questions that need to be answered.
Christine was a realtor and the day before her death three members of one of her client's families had been murdered and Jane, investigator that she is, naturally wonders if there is a connection between those murders and the gun in Christine's briefcase. And as she looks into it she meets a young woman who is almost a dead ringer for Christine and now not only is her relationship with Kenzie on the line, but her life as well.
I like the way Ms. Hart weaves her tale, drawing you in page by page. I also liked Jane's somewhat eccentric, but very sharp sidekick Cordelia. She is just to die for, character wise that is. Ms. Hart has a unique talent of spicing up her clues with a few very good laughs amid the tension and she knows how to keep her readers turning the pages.
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