Building a Mystery
The Dog Park Club
By Cynthia Robinson
7 Apr, 2022
Miscellaneous Reviews
The Dog Park Club is the first of Cynthia Robinson’s Max Bravo books. It is a comedic mystery.
Successful opera singer Max Bravo’s social life is as barren as his professional life is rich. Lovers, male and female, are all brief flings. The only two people he sees consistently are his aged grandmother, Baba, and Claudia Fiore, his long-time friend. When marital calamity upends Claudia’s life, Max steps in to care for her neglected dog, Asta. If nothing else, excursions with Asta will provide him with yet another means to avoid his Baba’s incessant efforts to find him a bride.
Max would be the first to proclaim that he is an utterly self-centered, judgmental snob, the last person who should take an interest in solving a murder. However, clipping the leash onto Asta is the first step towards amateur sleuthing.
Warning: spoilers abound.