[NOTE: I first posted this review at the end of 2001, shortly after the book was published. It somehow disappeared from Amazon, so I'm reposting it.]
Mary Alice Baker, whom we met in _Shooting Elvis_ as she was transformed into Nina Zero, is on parole now after five years in a California prison. She's certainly not the same person she was, even after her borderline personality began to slide downhill under the pressure of events in the earlier book, but she really is trying to get her life together -- at least at first. To get a grubstake, she has agreed to a "green card marriage" to an English photographer, but after meeting him in Las Vegas, she discovers she really cares about Gabe, a leading LA paparazzi. Nina, a talented photographer, gets into the business, too -- but then Gabe, whom she already has reasons not to trust, turns up dead. Nina takes it personally and the semi-psychopathic side of her, the result of a childhood with her abusive father, begins to take over her life. This is, in many ways, more of a straight whodunit than the first book, since we already know something about the lead character, but it's very, very well done. The plotting is excellent and the characterization, as before, is terrific. And Nina has definitely become a scary person. But I think it would be a mistake for Eversz to try to continue this into a series. I hope he knows when to quit.
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