Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Par Four
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Elizabeth Gunn
Class/Genre: Mystery Police Procedural
Series: Jake Hines # 2
Walker, Jan 1999, $22.95, 300 pp.
After Jake Hines' incredible performance on his last case (see TRIPLE PLAY), he has been rewarded with a promotion to the Rutherford, Minnesota Chief of Detectives. He does not expect the job to be much of a headache, but discovers quite the opposite when he is forced to explain a previous case during a Critical Incident Debriefing. Jake is an action type guy and hates these touchy feely things that is expected of him by his superior and the staff psychiatrist.
His boss orders him to attend a meeting that becomes symbolic of overload and craziness caused by being the person ultimately responsible for the apprehension of criminals. Jake frets over how a heist of a small bar and grill turned into a double homicide and how the killings then link to a child abduction case. Many a law enforcement official would have an ulcer with this type of workload, but not Jake, who thrives on the adrenaline of a crisis like the one he confronted with right now.
Elizabeth Gunn is a definite talent who scribes a clever who-done-it filled with numerous off-shoots of a typical police procedural. Readers will simply be unable to put the novel down until after they finish the final page. Jake is a rare sleuth because he will receive accolades form both genders due to his sensitivity in his personal life and his no-holds barred professional attitude. PAR FOUR is misnamed because it is clearly a hole in one.
Harriet Klausner
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