Niagara Fall: A Novel of Crime and Comedy

Stephen F. Wilcox. Mystery and Suspense Press, $18.95 (316pp) ISBN 978-0-595-22146-2

Everybody's after something: calculating Marla Graycastle wants her husband dead; bad boy Bona's looking for an in with the mob; ex-monk Decker has his eye on waitress Suzzy (not to mention an obsession with Niagara Falls); and Suzzy could use a break from her double life as an undercover customs agent. What looks like a straight-up hit on Marla's milquetoast mate escalates into mayhem as love blooms, good crime goes bad and people get what's coming to them in Stephen F. Wilcox's dryly witty, well-paced Niagara Fall: A Novel of Crime and Comedy.

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