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Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
5.0

Smart, witty, sarcastic and a little raunchy can all be used to describe this super entertaining multi layered mystery with the two best amateur detectives you will ever meet. First you have Andie Stern who gave up a very promising career as an FBI profiler to be a SAHM (after solving a serial murder case while still in college) and who is very pregnant with her fifth child. Second you have Kenneth Lee at the top of his game in journalism at 22 with a Pulitzer for the story that brought down a governor, who is now working for a small NJ weekly paper because of fabricating evidence in a story in his attempt to stay at the top of his game. When Andie inadvertently enters a murder scene at a local gas station so her youngest can pee something in her brain awakens and she becomes obsessed with the murder – especially since in the brief time she was at the scene she noticed elements of the crime scene that the two inexperienced first police on the scene didn’t even know to look for, and despite what the police say she knows it didn’t look like a robbery gone bad. She soon hooks up with Kenneth – so he can be her legs and go places and ask questions she can’t, and we are treated to a terrific mystery that features a decades old murder, corruption in town government offices, a current murder, discrimination against newly arrived Indian members of the community and Andie’s hysterical interactions with her 4 young children.