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Summary: BEAUFORD SLOAN, A PI WITH A HEART
Review: "DEAD AGAIN" IS A GOOD QUICK READ. GOOD PLOT AND THE ENDING WORTH WAITING FOR. HOPE THERE IS MORE TO COME OF SLOAN.
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Summary: Raymond Austin A WINNER WITH "DEAD AGAIN"
Review: I finished this book Dead Again at 4am this morning. I had to force myself to put this one down (just twice).There's lots of details, and well delineated characters
I found the premise very believable, the storyline believeable, and perhaps most of all, the characters were believeable. Why sould I be surprised, Austin always hooked me in as a director . . .So why not with a book? Read this book you'll like it if you like strong characters, I'm off to the bookstore to buy The Eagle Heist Austin's frist book.
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Summary: A WINNWE BY AUSTIN. "DEAD AGAIN"
Review: I meet this author Raymond Austin while he lectured on a recent cruise. I knew of his work as a television director and found his lecture very interesting and in lighting. I have now read both his books. "Dead again," is a wonderful book two in the Beauford Sloan series for those of us who love a good mystery and hate all the sex and violence that is put into the books for NO REASON. He had a little sex in number one "The eagle heist," but petite. "Dead again," like the first will have you on the edge of your seat and make you feel like you really know the characters. A great mystery, ideal for a stormy night. Why Austin never took to the pen before I know not.
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Summary: DEAD AGAIN A WINNER FOR AUSTIN
Review: I picked up Austin's first book The Eagle Heist this summer. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. It sounded a lot like a Spencer novel, and he's PI is not one of my favorite. I was very surprised when I finished the book in about three days. I've been waiting for Dead Again his next book every since,but I have only just picked it up. It petty much picks up right where the Eagle Heist and Beauford Sloan left off in the first novel.
I think the characters are what makes the books so good. Austin has created a very real bunch,Beauford is very real. Austin's writing is excellant and the pace of the books is good, it just flies. I was hooke in both books from the first page. It never drags like some do in the middle. All over all this is one good read!I'm already waiting for Austin's next, there has to be one?
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Summary: Beauford Sloan is on the case again in Merry Olde England
Review: I was going to say that the second Beauford Sloan mystery was too early to send our hero off to England to do the stranger in a strange land bit, but since author Raymond Austin is from that side of the Pond there is a sense in which he is on familiar turf. As was the case in "The Eagle Heist" the running conceit is that Sloan looks a lot like Wilford Brimley, although it is really the other way around because Sloan was born first. The author and the actor have known each other since they were stunt men in the good old days, so it has Brimley's blessing, and it is pretty cool that when you read these mysteries you can hear Brimley's familiar growl every time Sloan speaks.
"Dead Again" begins with Sloan stumbling upon a crime in progress, but that turns out not to be what this one is about. The Lester Hancock Insurance Company hires private investigate Beauford Sloan to England to check out a couple of deaths that have been ruled accidental by the local police. The first man who died was insured by the company for $20 million, while the second was an insurance investigator sent to investigate the first death. Sloan does not believe in coincidences and neither does the person who hires him to dig around and see what he can find.
This means that Beauford's regular allies, such as Detective Sergeant Bobby Hoy and his fellow P.I. Sally Peters, are back in Virginia. They get to help here and there, but mostly Beauford is relying on another old friend, Romo Gorrara, a well-connected stunt coordinator for the movies living in the U.K., and charming some of the women he meets into helping him with his investigations. These ladies prove to be more helpful than the inspector in charge of the investigation, who is not happy with the idea of some American ex-cop private investigator for a big insurance company coming around and double-guessing his work.
Like "The Eagle Heist" the more that Beauford pokes around the more people start dying. But our hero did not buy two deaths as a coincidence, so getting to a third and fourth body only get the hairs on the back of his neck to stand up again. This might be only the second book in the series, but there is a definite comfort level with Austin's character, thereby disproving the adage about the inherent relationship between familiarity and contempt. How many detectives are cute curmudgeons who censor their profanity when talking to ladies? Besides, it is not like you have to wondering about the casting if they ever film one of these stories.
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Summary: THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ.
Review: It's been quite some time since I've read a book as tight, exciting, and twisty as Dead Again. This novel has just about everything you need for a stay-up-all-night read and absolutely nothing you don't need. It's very well-paced, and I swear this is one of the hardest books to put down. Until I read his debut novel, The Eagle Heist, and was bowled over again by this new author. He just has a knack for getting you hooked right from the start and not weighing you down with a lot of character development until you're ready. And by this I mean he doesn't spend the first 50-100 pages introducing the main players and boring the socks off of you like a lot of authors do now. Austin gradually unveils each character over the course of the novel, so like in real life, you get to know them over a period of time. Austin two books are all about the character, and the action, plot, and narrative are secondary. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for character development, but I simply can't remember all there is to know about a person when 50 pages are devoted to them back to back. Just doesn't work, at least not for me.
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Summary: You won't want to put it down!,
Review: Look out Robert Parker...I have "met" your competition and he is good. Dead Again, Raymonds Austin's second novel, is another winner. With a great cast of characters, non-stop action and a surprise ending, no lover of mystery/thriller books will be disappointed! Beauford Sloan is back. Don't forget to get Austin's first novel The Eagle Heist. And don't plan on doing anything else once you get these books....you won't want to put them down!
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Summary: A VERY GOOD BOOK
Review: This book is a sleeper. I had never seen it, or been told about it. Why! I found it at a book sale in NY. It is one of the best reads I have had in detective stories for a long time. It is fast moving, good plot and a great ending. I got to like Beauford Sloan after a few pages with him. I still can't understand why more has not been said about this book and the author. I am out to get another book by him, which looks to be his first, The Eagle Heist. This Austin has been hiding behind a film camera until now. I recommend this book. I am a avid reader.
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Summary: A NEW WIRTER ON THE BLOCK
Review: This book is a thrill ride from beginning to end. The only things about it that kept me from giving it five stars are the four-letter words, (unfortunately, that's just how so many people talk.) I couldn't put Dead Again down! What a great, entertaining, story. There is never a dull moment in this one. My only complaint is that it ended too soon.
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Summary: AUSTIN HAS NEW WINNER IN DEAD AGAIN
Review: This book is best in the series. Although the first was good Austin is better with DEAD AGAIN. The crime keeps you guessing, but it is the characters that make this book great. Beauford and Sally go a little deeper in their relationship if you read between the lines. This is one book you cant stop reading just because you love the characters so much. You'll definately want to read this one and austin's first.
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