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Summary: A FINELY PACED READING
Review: Voice artist Lee Sellars gives a finely paced reading to the latest thriller from New York times best selling author Robert. K. Tannenbaum. In this, the fourteenth Karp family tale, the big city swelters in summer heat while the Karps are enjoying a leisurely respite at their Long Island farmhouse. Wife Marlene is training guard dogs, while Karp, New York Country's assistant district attorney, is asked to serve as special prosecutor in a West Virginia murder case. Actually, the victims were summer friends of the Karps: a coal mine union leader, his wife, and their daughter. Karp finds more than killing in the little coal mining town - corruption and black crimes abound. Marlene soon joins her spouse, adding fuel to the already glowing fire of imminent death. Daughter Lucy plays a larger than usual part in this story, while the ten-year-old twins provide mostly background. Fans of Tannenbaum will find much to their liking in "Absolute Rage," and, undoubtedly, eagerly await the next one from this prolific author. - Gail Cooke
Rating:
Summary: A FINELY PACED READING
Review: Voice artist Lee Sellars gives a finely paced reading to the latest thriller from New York times best selling author Robert. K. Tannenbaum. In this, the fourteenth Karp family tale, the big city swelters in summer heat while the Karps are enjoying a leisurely respite at their Long Island farmhouse. Wife Marlene is training guard dogs, while Karp, New York Country's assistant district attorney, is asked to serve as special prosecutor in a West Virginia murder case. Actually, the victims were summer friends of the Karps: a coal mine union leader, his wife, and their daughter. Karp finds more than killing in the little coal mining town - corruption and black crimes abound. Marlene soon joins her spouse, adding fuel to the already glowing fire of imminent death. Daughter Lucy plays a larger than usual part in this story, while the ten-year-old twins provide mostly background. Fans of Tannenbaum will find much to their liking in "Absolute Rage," and, undoubtedly, eagerly await the next one from this prolific author. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: Good read, but you don't know West Virginia, Mr. T!
Review: While a great fan of Butch and Marlene Karp and a dedicated reader of the entire series, I had to smile in amusement at Robert K. Tanenbaum's efforts to portray a West-Virginia mountain locale. Everything is stereotypical, from the dialect, to the reference to hillbillies having one leg longer than the other from walking on the hills, to the effort to capture "local color" by mentioning car tires painted white and used as planters. It is obvious that while Tanenbaum may have made a weekend trip to this area of the country in research for the book that he never set foot into an actual home or spent much time talking to the "yokels." He may like the catfish specials at the local café, but on the whole, he'd be better served by keeping his focus on the Big Apple. The Catholic Church is six blocks away? In a mountain town I doubt that they could count six blocks. They think more in terms of a quarter mile or half mile. Also, when did Bi-Lo start selling combat boots? It's a grocery store. A cardinal rule of writing is to write about what you know -- keep it at home, Mr. Tanenbaum. Don't try to write about the South.
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