Double Homicide

Interesting but not compelling, sidebar for two very successful mystery writers

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz work nights in the Special Investigations unit. One freezing night they get a call that breaks the usual tedious pattern of domestic disturbances and abusive husbands. In this case it is a homicide, which took place in an art gallery. It looks like your usual investigation, but things are a little more complicated than that, since one of the officers had an altercation with the victim a little while ago. In Boston, Dorothy is a single-mother policewoman who has two kids and is having trouble with her youngest one. One day when she was cleaning his room she found a gun in his backpack. But soon after she thinks she cannot handle any more, she gets the news about her oldest son being at the stage of a shooting in a club. The violence started after a confrontation between two basketball teams, and Dorothy's son plays in one of them. The victim is the start in her son's team, so Dorothy has to deal a lot of stuff. She has the help of Michael McCain, a policeman who has lost his charm and is not as appealing to women as he once was, is living in a dump and does not have much to look forward to.

Efforts of a husband and wife team are evident in this book. I love Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware books and Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker series, but this was just hard to follow and the different writing styles was difficult to get used to. The story line was good in spite of all this so I gave it three stars.

I didn't love this book (or, books, I suppose I should say). I'm not a short story fan in general and, although I love both Kellermans as authors, I wanted more from each story. There wasn't anything wrong with the writing or the stories themselves, I just wanted more.

All her books leave me wanting more of her books. Excellent writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My boyfriend's sister gave him this book for his birthday and for lack of anything else to read one night, I picked it up. I learnt two important lessons from the Kellermans.
1. My boyfriend's sister must really, really hate him and,
2. even when you're expectations are extremely low, there is always room for disappointment.
Wish I stabbed myself in the eyes instead.

Detectives solve a murder in Boston and Santa Fe. Straight forward whodunits. One involves a basketball player that dies in a shooting because of an aneurism.

In the other an art dealer is murdered and the husband of another painter does the deed.