I just spent a wonderfully relaxing week in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. Naturally I hit the books while on the beach.
I picked up a copy of John Sandford's "Certain Prey" and
Robert Crais' L.A. Requiem.
L.A. Requiem I found to be very good and quite enjoyed
getting to know more about Joe Pike and why he is the way he
is. I was also heartened to see that Cole and Lucy are on the
outs. I tend to like it better when the hardboiled hero is
less domestically happy. I have always thought that Robert B.
Parker could give the Spenser series a shot in the arm if
Spenser didn't have Susan around to engage in psychological
reparte.
Certain Prey was a bit of an odd duck. I first got on to the
series with
"Winter Prey" and soon read most of the books but found a
"sameness" about them that I grew tired of. Certain Prey on
the other hand is a bit different. The hero, Lucas Davenport,
is lead to the killers more by luck and chance than good
police work. This of course makes the whole process quite
humorous. You can imagine the carefully hidden trail being
followed almost by accident and the killers wondering how the
police had followed them.
I would be interested in hearing others opinions about these
two books.
R.W. Gough
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