Double Homicide

Don't waste your time or pennies on this book! Don't waste your time at the library checking it out. It is only the start of what could be 2 totally seperate great books. Instead, it leads you up and drops you on the ice. I have never been so angry or disappointed in a book. Don't really need to ever read a Kellerman of any variety again.

Best selling spouses Faye and Jonathan Kellerman got together and collaborated on this one. Well, not really - it is two separate stories in one volume, but it's fun. I'd seen copies that were flip style - one story on one side, flip it over and the other story starts on the other side, know what I mean? The copy I have isn't like that, though - it is just one after the other and I really don't know who wrote which story, although, I have my suspicions. They are both great stories.

The first one is called In The Land of Giants and takes place in Boston. Basketball is the name of the game in this one, as a flagrant foul on the court spills over to gun fire at a night club after the game and a brilliant young athlete ends up dead. Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain arrive at the scene after a frantic call from Dorothy's son, who is a ball player and was present at the club during the shooting. Dorothy is understandably quite shaken up - it could easily have been her boy laying dead and she is friends with the victim's mother. The investigation leads down some unexpected roads and even the ME gets actively involved in this one.

I really like the characters in this - especially Mickey - Detective McCain. He is just too amusing. Gosh, I shouldn't be amused at his misery, but I am. He laments the fact that he used to be God's gift to women and now he's kind of gone to seed. He's a great friend, though and I really like him.

The second one is called Still Life and takes place in Santa Fe. Detectives Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called out to investigate the murder of a prominent art dealer. The case is not an easy one because the victim was a real SOB and any number of people would have loved to see him dead - it's a matter of too many suspects. Slowly, but surely they start to uncover the shocking truth and the end of this one really was a bit of a shocker. One of those stories that made me go 'WHOA!' when I read the last page.

I really like the characters in this one too. Especially Katz - probably for the same reason I like Mickey - he's wallowing in misery since his wife left him. She's a real flake, but a captivating flake and she's actually the one who provides the info that cracks the case.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. And since I could read one story one night and the other the next, I didn't have to loose sleep trying to read the entire book in one night!

You lost my interest at "Army" Gunnery Sergeant.

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Jonathan and Faye Kellerman are terrific authors. I have read nearly all of their books and they are real page-turners.