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Title: I Will Survive: A Marti Hirsch Mystery by Miriam Ann Moore ISBN: 0-380-79120-X Publisher: Twilight Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Remember the 80's!
Comment: I Will Survive takes place during the holidays in 1981. This is the third in the Marti Hirsch Mystery series. It follows Last Dance and Stayin' Alive. In this series the protagonist, who refers to herself as a drug using, hard-core feminist, free-loving bisexual, Jewish-atheist, does her amateur sleuthing in the middle of New York's disco hot spots. Although she is a writer, Marti is the last of her breed that refuses to, as she puts it, sell out to the system as others have in order to be successful or rich and famous. In this mystery unwanted changes are coming and Marti will prove she is tough enough to survive.

At the beginning of I Will Survive Marti's friend and now famous artist, Jana, employs her. Whenever Jana needs something she tells Marti to "take care of it," and Marti does, even when she finds Jana dead in the basement. As the words echo in her head, Marti hits the frozen pavement of New York risking herself and her marriage to solve Jana's murder. She finds herself dealing with an angry cop from the past who would love to frame her, one too many close calls and what some would label moral decisions as she sleuths. As usual, Marti does it her way and victims are plentiful when it comes to her sharp wit and kickboxing attitude as she successfully hunts down the killer.

Like most authors, Ms. Moore pens her characters in a colorful, lively way hoping to get a reaction from the reader, and she did. Sometimes I cringed, sometimes I laughed and sometimes I wanted to reach in the book and slap Marti upside the head, especially on occasion when she jumped off the sleuthing track and spitefully boomeranged the chip on her shoulder at others. One example would be the scene with a relative who offers her support by being her lawyer. While reading I found Marti's personality and off-brand humor overwhelmed the mystery and although funny at times, it became distracting. I have to be honest and say Marti Hirsch isn't one of my favorite protagonists, but I think she will be one of the most memorable. In this mystery, the reader will find the usual line of suspects along with the usual twists and turns, plus a few titillating sex scenes.

Rating: 5
Summary: Offbeat mystery series best of show
Comment: Third time's the charm for author Miriam Moore in her amusing and experimental Marti Hirsch mystery series. Each book in the series--the first two also sported dancey disco titles (Last Dance, Stayin' Alive)-- leaps to a new decade and locale. This time Marti moves from Las Vegas to Manhattan and from the seventies to 1981. The continuing serial of Marti's life and the series' sense of the pop culture moment make it a little more artistic than your average mystery series and maybe a little more esoteric. Unlike many series, this one has grown with the characters, as Marti enters into the chic New York art world of her youthful friend (and nemesis) Jana Crowley. Marti just happens to be present when her friend is knocked off in the laundry room of their building.The plotting is excellent, but the ongoing development of Marti's marriage and career--narrated in her own quirky voice-- give the reader a less suspenseful but equally satisfying taste of reading pleasure.