Bluff by Jane Stanton Hitchcock – 5 Stars
Publisher: Poisoned Penn Press
ISBN: 9781464210693
One would expect this to be a book
about Poker. In a way it is, but without any games, not a real card dealt or nor
a chip played. Instead, this story is only constantly compared to the phases of
a Poker hand/game, to emphasize the need to use the Bluff in order to be the
unchallenged winner.
The shuffle and deal, not always
exciting but necessary, initiate the story through Chapter 38, but in Chapter
39 you discover the Cut abruptly changes things, plus funny dealing from the
bottom of the deck has also been happening without you knowing it. Much is like
a real poker game and the plot keeps its cards close to the chest. But, Don’t
Fold yet. All the information in these first 38 chapters is important to
produce a complete and necessary profile of each character -- maybe not
necessarily a correct one -- and to deliver a very exciting hand to play. Mad
Maud is one of the main characters and remains a central focus throughout.
Because of events in her past, she quickly, within the beginning pages, offs Sun
Sunderland, a billionaire, in public in front of many witnesses. She just
became the dealer and a most interesting player as well. The plot continues
with an elite group of friends and enemies wondering why she shot Sun when she
was even madder about dealings his lunch buddy Burt Sklar had with her mother.
Throughout the story, Maud distributes the aces from the bottom of the deck and
twists and nurtures a story into a giant Bluff. But, who bluffs and who blinks?
And, finally, who wins?
You don’t want to fold your hand
too early and will want to relish all the details re the Bluff. This is an
excellent mystery full of secrets and surprising twists.
Reviewer: Rich
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