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Summary: Interesting Story,
Review: The Body of David Hayes was an interesting story that had me swiftly turning the pages. I like this series.
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Summary: Another page-turner by Ridley Pearson
Review: The Body of David Hayes, by Ridley Pearson
Conflict grips the reader from the first page of Ridley Pearson's latest novel, The Body of David Hayes. Lou Boldt is called to the scene of an attack on an old friend of his, a cop with whom he and his wife Liz were close friends at one time. No longer, though, and this particular cop, known for his unorthodox approach to law enforcement, becomes a key player in Pearson's tense thriller.
On one level, this novel examines the pain of betrayal in a marriage that has already had its share of trials. Several years ago, during her recovery from a body-wracking treatment for cancer, Liz Boldt had an affair with David Hayes, a bright young computer technician at the bank where she holds a high position. Not long after, Hayes went to prison for embezzling $17 million. Though six years have passed, Liz and Lou are still recovering from the guilt and damage.
One day, out of the blue, Hayes calls Liz and asks for a meeting. Ashamed and afraid, she finds herself emotionally blackmailed into helping him retrieve the missing money. It turns out that he stole the money from the Russian mafia, and they have already tortured him for information. Consequently, the head of the Russian mafia knows about the affair that Liz and Boldt have struggled to keep a secret, and he doesn't hesitate to use Liz's position and expertise at the bank to gain access to the institution's mainframe computer. Liz has to tell Boldt the whole story, which tears open the still-painful wounds in their relationship. Boldt struggles to stand by her, and the tension builds as he finds a way to play his own colleagues, the mafia, the bank honchos, and the original thief off one another in his attempt to protect his wife and children.
I was riveted by this relentless page turner and complex police procedural well past my bedtime, anxious to discover how the respectable and charismatic Lou Boldt could untangle the web of deception around his wife. Ridley Pearson has written another captivating thriller.
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: The fast-paced and engrossing THE BODY OF DAVID HAYNES is the ninth outing for Lou Boldt. Boldt is somewhat of a legend in the SPD. He has the highest case clearance per average in the history in the Seattle Police Department. The book opens when he is called to a scene where friend and fellow officer is drugged and beaten on a stakeout of a trailer. Missing from the scene is David Hayes, the subject of the stakeout. Six years earlier David Hayes worked as technical computer support in the same bank where Lou's wife, Liz was an officer. During a dark time in the Boldt marriage, Liz had an affair with David Hayes and it almost destroyed the Boldt marriage. After the affair was over Hayes embezzled seventeen million dollars from the bank. He was caught, but the money was never recovered. Several parties are interested in retrieving the money now that Hayes is released from jail including the bank, police, and the original owners of the money, the Russian mob. David is on the run and he contacts Liz to help him get the money, which has been in limbo since his arrest. He is afraid for his life if he does not get the money back to the mob he stole it from. Liz is only one of few that has access to the codes to transfer the money. Events escalate until both the Boldt's marriage and their children are threatened. Boldt is put into the position of having to protect his family over the interests of the police department.From the very first page, the reader is drawn into this story. It is an extremely well plotted thriller that has the suspense building throughout the whole story until the very end. As good as the story is there is more at play here than just another good thriller which many books can claim to be. Where Pearson excels is at the finely tuned drawing of his characters as human beings, their frailties and their proclivity for secrets that come back to haunt them. The scenes between the Boldts are fraught with anger, hurt, tension and love as they try to get past wounds that could unravel their marriage. This is one of the best books I have read in a long time.
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Summary: disappointing and predictable
Review: This a disappointing effort by Pearson. It is hard to care for his characters and after a while the whining self-absorbed narrative wears thin. It seems that Boldt and Pearson have grown tired.
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Summary: CAN'T BE A LEGIT PART OF THE BOLDT/LAMOIA /MATTHEWS SERIES
Review: This book came from an alternate universe, where an alternate Ridley wrote an alternate Boldt/LaMOia/Matthews series--this book being the ninth book. This doesn't conform to the rest of the series at all. In this book, Liz is younger than she is in Art of Deception, and so are the Boldt children (based on the information that John and Daphne have worked together 9 years in Art of Deception according to John in ch 29 of Art of Deception) And Undercurrents is the first Boldt?LaMoia/Matthews series.
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Summary: The Body of David Hayes
Review: This was an excellent book! The story was fast paced and realistic. The officer was in a virtually no win situation and managed to pull out a believable and gripping ending. This was the first book I have read by this author, but it definitely won't be the last. Although this is not the first in this story line, it can be read as a stand alone. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: Bye Bye Boldt
Review: This will be the last Lou Boldt book I buy. It might also be the last Ridley Pearson book I buy. Tea-drinking, jazz-playing, sensitive but competent Lou has finally become an utter bore. This time out, the story never quite takes off, and it never really pays off. (If you don't count the revelation the Boldt's son, Miles - MILES! - is actually a child prodigy, a little Mozart.) Mainly we trudge along, knee-deep in Lou and Liz's struggle with her past infidelity. Boldt doesn't actually DO anything but wrestle with his emotions. Even LaMoia fails to light things up, seemingly just along for the ride. I almost didn't read the last 20 pages! Reader beware....
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Summary: ONE MORE SPELLBINDER FROM RIDLEY PEARSON
Review: White collar - crime. Almost sounds like a contradiction in terms, does it not? Yet stats show that between 1997 and 1999 there were over 5.8 million incidents of white collar crime, which is defined as financial, economic or corporate crime. Think of the latest case involving one of the best known names in America, think of the Enron scandal. Such incidents rivet our attention, and so will the latest crime thriller from Ridley Pearson. As always Pearson's scenario is cutting edge as suspense and sexual tension propel this complex tale that threatens to tear apart forever the marriage of Lou and Elizabeth Boldt. Readers remember Lou well, and so does a deputy sheriff who "acted like a teenager in front of a rock star, trying to impress while fawning at the same time." Lou has "the highest case clearance per average in the history of the Seattle Police Department," but here is one that challenges him professionally and may wreck him emotionally. Liz is doing well professionally - she's been promoted to executive vice president of Information Technology at a major bank. The couple have two young children, and both are now facing a challenge neither could have imagined. Some time ago Liz had an affair with young David Hayes, a computer geek at the bank. Office romances often don't last long, and this one didn't either. But once she got back together with Lou, David brilliantly executed the impossible - he embezzled millions from the bank. The money has never been found. Now, the time is the present and David has been released from prison only to be squeezed by those who will take his life without a second's hesitation if he doesn't come up with the money. He contacts Liz, pleading with her to help by letting him get to the bank's computer system. Liz wants the past to be dead and buried but she also wants to protect herself, her family, and the bank. All of this leaves Boldt smack in the middle - he's an honest detective who wants to locate the bank's money, and he's an irate, jealous husband when he discovers that Liz has once again seen David. Then suddenly David disappears - no body is found. There's simply no David. Ridley Pearson presents us with one more spellbinder that taxes the heart and mind of Lou Boldt. A gripping tale from start to finish. - Gail Cooke
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