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Title: Aphrodite by Russell Andrews ISBN: 0-89296-784-6 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: be prepared for some twists
Comment: Police detective Justin Westwood has a painful past he is trying to escape. He has come to East End Harbor to take a low-level position with the police department there. He is content writing parking tickets and his after hours drinking. A reporter for a local Long Island newspaper is murdered. Justin is sucked into the investigation of her murder. The reporter was well-liked and respected. The most controversial piece she had written recently was an obituary with seemingly wrong facts in it. There are several deaths that seem related and Justin works to solve the puzzle.
The protagonists in this book were very well developed and engaging. The plot is somewhat complicated, but very suspenseful. It made for a page-turning book after a few slow beginning chapters that set up the story. I liked that though there were a lot of characters and a more complicated plot than a standard whodunit, it was still easy to follow. The ending was a bit of a letdown so I can only give APHRODITE an qualified recommendation. It is still one of the better thrillers I have read lately.
Rating: 4
Summary: Impossible to Put Down
Comment: Justin (Jay) Westwood of Providence, Rhode Island, was a legendary crime-solver, until the Mafia murdered his daughter before turning their guns on him. Left for dead, Jay managed to kill the intruders, stopping the rape and murder of his wife. One year later, his wife committed suicide, bringing to an end the life Jay knew. Added to this mess is Jay's father, who blames Jay for the loss of his granddaughter.
Six years later, Westwood is a cop in the resort town of East End Harbor on Long Island, NY, where his days are spent writing traffic tickets and putting up with the scorn of two, twenty-something, summer cops. Westwood is mocked for being out of shape and spaced out, while he drowns each day in booze and fogs his mind with old song lyrics. Crime is so rare in East End Harbor that police carry cell phones instead of guns. But everything changes when the dead body of a reporter is found.
At first glance, the reporter's death looks accidental, but Jay is nagged by something not quite right about the murder scene. Against his better judgment, Westwood investigate, and happens across a witness that saw the murder. Fortunately, the murderer is not aware of the witness, until bratty cop Brian gives a television interview, and he, too, turns up dead.
Jay takes the witness, Deena Harper, and her daughter Kendall on a race to outwit the killers, determined to keep them alive while unraveling the puzzle of more unlikely murders that keep cropping up:
Cranky movie buff, Wallace P. Crabbe
The mistress of a prominent government official
Nursing home residents who coincidentally have the same niece or nephew, one of which is missing and the other dead after the FBI is called in.
If that's not enough, Westwood and Deena are then implicated in some of the murders and become fugitives, forcing them back to Jay's hometown of Providence for the help they desperately need.
Throw in some creepy identical twin males whose hobby is killing people, an FBI man torn by his conscience, a brilliant scientist, the FDA and some top-ranking political figures and Andrews has written a true, not-to-be-put-down thriller.
Rating: 3
Summary: First time reading this author
Comment: I was really enthused when I started reading this book - the plot and characters were terribly interesting and I could not put the book down. But the last couple chapters just kind of fell apart, and as other reviewers have stated, it 'wrapped up TOO neatly' with no plausability at all. Left me feeling like the author lost interest and was just anxious to finish the book. How disappointing. I will try his other books but will certainly be wary this time. I read 2-3 books a week minimum so am always looking for good authors.
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Title: The Kills by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0743223551 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Paranoia : A Novel by Joseph Finder ISBN: 0312319142 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Icarus by Russell Andrews ISBN: 0743451562 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gideon by Russell Andrews ISBN: 0345434781 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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