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Summary: Excellent quick read with several twists!!!
Review: I found this book quite by accident at a local book store. I thoroughly enjoyed the non-stop suspense & the characters came alive during the story telling. You feel as though you "are there." I am now in the process of reading his newest novel, "In the Shadow of the Arch," and anticipating the next in the series. I just hope Mr. Randisi will continue to write future novels of his character Detective Joe Keough. He definately made me a faithful reader of this series. I am a long time reader of mysteries, thrillers, and especially detective police novels.
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Summary: Randisi Mysteries Rate the Best
Review: I'm not much of a reviewer, but I've read all of Randisi's Joe Keough books. The hero, the villans and the mysteries are all first class reading enjoyment.
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Summary: Formula
Review: Maybe I'm getting tired of the Detective Mystery Thriller formula containing one dimensional characters - hero detective with unwavering integrity, inept face-saving looking-to-get-ahead police sergeants captains and commissioners, an available lovely single mom next door with adoring daughter. There's a deviant named "Kopykat" introduced in the book's prologue who is salivating over newspaper articles about gruesome murders - hmmm...wonder what this guy's all about? I actually like the characters in this book better than those in Randisi's "The Sixth Sense", but because the story isn't as good I rate it 2 instead of 3.
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Summary: Proficien t but unexceptional serial killer tale
Review: The book introduces a new character from the prolific Mr Randisi -a NY cop named Joseph Sean Keough ,downgraded for his robust attitude towards the rights of child molesters .The city is in thrall to a serial killer ,dubbed The Lover ,for his habit of leaving a rose on the nude body of his female victims.He has an imitator ,Kopycat ,whose idolises the Lover and seeks to emulate him .Keough suspects the truth -that there are two killers but the chief of the Task Force set up tp investigate the crimes chooses ,cynically to demand the new killings are treated as the work of the Lover ,despite clear differences in the age of victims and the type of roses left behind.Its head Lieutenant Slovecky is determined to gain rapid promption and the more crimes ascribed to the Lover ,the better for him when the killer is convicted.
Len Swann ,a task force member ,collaborates with Keough to expose the truth but is murdered and the case for the two killer theory is kept under wraps to the considerable annoyance of the Lover who is appalled at the new crimes.
The tale is one of overlapping hunts- the hunt for the killer of Swann,and that for the two serial murderers .
The actual resolution of the crimes is not due to any great detection and relies heavily on coincidence -something the writer covertly acknowledges towards the close of the book .What is of striking interest however is the portrait of a corrupt and venal NYPD ,riddled with blackmail and run with more of an eye for publicity and politics than in the interest of the general public.
The Department does not come out of the book at all well -at least in its upper echelons and the portrait makes uncomfortable reading in that regard.
Marked down for the perfunctoriness of its resolution of the crime which depends too heavily on being in the right place at the right time.
Worth reading if you like urban thrillers without too much bnlood snd gore
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Summary: Good concept,but what happened?
Review: This is an incredible for a book. You have one serial killer called "The Lover", who places a rose on his victims body. Someone reads about it in the local paper, and he wanted to "give hornors" to the "Lover", by being a Copycat killer. Just one problem, the Lover isn't flattered, he's mad. Sounds like a *great* idead for a book, right? Well somewhere alone the way, it falls apart. I guess the biggest problem I had was how the "Lover" was caught. There was very little cat and mouse play between Keough (the lead detective) and the Lover. Randisi has a decent wrtiing style that will probally keep the reader hooked, but I feel that so much more coulde have been done with this book. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad read, I just expected a bit more.
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Summary: Good concept,but what happened?
Review: This is an incredible for a book. You have one serial killer called "The Lover", who places a rose on his victims body. Someone reads about it in the local paper, and he wanted to "give hornors" to the "Lover", by being a Copycat killer. Just one problem, the Lover isn't flattered, he's mad. Sounds like a *great* idead for a book, right? Well somewhere alone the way, it falls apart. I guess the biggest problem I had was how the "Lover" was caught. There was very little cat and mouse play between Keough (the lead detective) and the Lover. Randisi has a decent wrtiing style that will probally keep the reader hooked, but I feel that so much more coulde have been done with this book. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad read, I just expected a bit more.
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