Book Review: Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde by P. Hogan et al.

Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde written by Peter Hogan, artwork, colors, and letters by Steve Parkhouse

See my review of the first volume here.

Doctor Harry is back and on another case. Recovering from his leg wound in the last volume, a temporary replacement for the town doctor in Patience is hired by the mayor. This frees Harry up to investigate a seeming suicide. A young blonde woman checked into a hotel and was found dead from poisoning. The room had an open champagne bottle and a suicide note. A quick search for evidence throws doubt on the assumption of suicide and suspicion on the town mayor, who had visited the blonde the night of the death. Harry knows instinctively that the mayor is innocent and investigates on his own, taking him to the dead woman's college in Seattle.

The story is entertaining if more lurid than the last story. The mystery was interesting enough but it's really only appropriate older kids. Some of the side plots from the last story (like his Native American nurse who has figured out he's from outer space) get some attention but not enough to move that part of the story any further. Until the very end of the book.

Mildly recommended.