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Dressed for a Kill Reviewed By Mary Lignor Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Mary Lignor
- Published March 4, 2010
- Crime & Mystery
Mary Lignor
Reviewer Mary Lignor: Mary is a retired librarian, originally from Connecticut but now living in New Mexico. All her life Mary has loved books and has passed this love on to her daughters. Mary started working in a library when her children were young as an Assistant Librarian and ended up as its Director. Her favorite books are suspense, political intrigue and anything involving the World War II era.
Author: Brian Bianco
ISBN:
978-1-4392-5888-0
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A debut novel with a very strong plot
and interesting characters. A good read with lots of action
throughout the entire book.
Miles Fischer, a reporter
for the Chicago Tribune is assigned to cover a trial in a small
town. The defendants were accused of perpetrating a horrendous
crime of rape and murder of two teenage girls. They were career
criminals who had been in jail most of their lives. One, an
orphan with no family, and the other the son of a very wealthy man
who ignored his son. The trial had gone on for three weeks and
finally was given to the jury, who deliberated four days. Their
lawyers were provided by the wealthy father and the men were found
not guilty due to a lack of evidence. The townspeople were up
in arms but were powerless to do anything about it. Very soon after,
the two men were drinking in a local bar and harrassing the help.
As they were leaving the bar they were both killed by the arrows from
a crossbow and left lying in the muddy parking lot. Later,
Miles becomes suspicious when he researches murders by crossbow and
discovers two more cases resembling this one. He believes that
this is not a coincidence and thinks that he has met the crossbow
killer in an unrelated incident involving an interview he is sent on
in Seattle. The FBI zeroes in on Miles and comes to him for
help which Miles refuses to give, wanting to keep the BIG story and
all the glory included for himself. He goes to Seattle to try
and intimidate people into telling him what he wants to know and runs
afoul of the FBI and a former policeman turned private investigator
to get the information he seeks. What he is not aware of is
that there are many things that he doesn't know and is in for a few
big surprises before this game is over.
As I said
before, the plot of this book is extremely well planned out.
The main character, Miles Fischer, is not a very likeable guy (this
is only my opinion). He is brash and intrusive and can turn you
away from him in an instant. His personal life is in a shambles
and he is becoming interested in a co-worker when his wife is in the
hospital having their first child. There are a handful of
newspaper reporters and editors who are forever throwing the first
amendment in everyone's face, some FBI agents who could help out if
only they could have done their work without chasing this reporter
forever and an ex cop who is hired by the wealthy father to find out
who killed his son.
The way that this book
is plotted, everyone has their job to do and does it well. The
ending is superb and will not happen until the very last pages.
(That, to me, really sells it.) If the author wanted his main
character to act like a reporter and give everyone a hard time being
a pushy, nosy all around meddlesome jerk, it really worked!!! I
really enjoyed reading this book and I have to say that the
presentation of the book is beautiful, the promotional items are
great and I wish the author much luck with it. I highly
recommend this book to all thriller/mystery readers.
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