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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Author Liza Klaussmann, descendent of Herman Melville, has written the brilliant novel "Tigers in Red Weather", a story of family strife and secrets. Now the novel has been made into 9 unabridged CD's for readers' listening pleasure. And a pleasure it is, as the upper-class world of cousins Nick and Helena is captured as the years after World War II pass. Nick and Helena have kept their family home, Tiger House, on Martha's Vineyard and that home is the novel's primary setting for its drama. Nick's family has done better financially than Helena's and the money/no money controversy continues as Helena marries charming Avery Lewis who purports to have Hollywood connections while Nick stays with lawyer Hughes Derringer whom she married before World War II began. Nick and Hughes' daughter Daisy and Helena's son Ed continue the family line, although Ed is obviously emotionally and mentally disturbed and Daisy almost attaches herself to Tyler who is one of her own mother's lovers. Helena meanwhile becomes drug and alcohol addicted while living out in California with Avery. Enough? No. A murdered and mutilated body is discovered by Ed and Daisy in a dilapidated shed near Tiger House. How will this horrific event foreshadow the family's future?
"Tigers in Red Weather" is well-captured by reader Katherine Kellgren although her voices of Nick and Helena need adjusting from upper-class British to that of wealthy, privileged New Englanders. The story's plot-line is carried well by Katherine Kellgren as she does a superb job of recounting through the eyes of Hughes and then, finally, Ed. That the story concludes as Daisy reads the poem that ends with "tigers in red weather" is perfect! These nine CD's will entertain and totally entrance all readers who want to listen to a story as well as read it.
