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5.0
Several retired detectives and a handful of their friends work with the permission of the police chief to solve cold cases. This being a Dean Wesley Smith work, they also play a lot of poker. Bayard Lott, Andor Williams, and Julia Rogers dive into a cold case that Lott and Williams first tackled 15 years earlier. The detectives had found 11 mummified bodies of women in a cave, all with black hair cut identically, wearing identical school uniforms, with identical portions of their anatomy removed. They never found any clues as to who might have done it. Now with the substantial resources of a “deep network of computer experts” at their beck and call, they discover that there may be a lot more bodies out there.
I love this book. It’s a nice, taut, complicated mystery. Only once did I feel someone leaped a little fortuitously to a conclusion, but it only would have required an additional step to make it perfect, so it isn’t a big deal. Some tough detective work, lucky breaks, and plenty of digging were required for this one. The complexity surprised me a bit; this definitely isn’t your run-of-the-mill serial killer tale. I really enjoyed this volume, and look forward to reading more of the Cold Poker Gang’s mysteries.
I love this book. It’s a nice, taut, complicated mystery. Only once did I feel someone leaped a little fortuitously to a conclusion, but it only would have required an additional step to make it perfect, so it isn’t a big deal. Some tough detective work, lucky breaks, and plenty of digging were required for this one. The complexity surprised me a bit; this definitely isn’t your run-of-the-mill serial killer tale. I really enjoyed this volume, and look forward to reading more of the Cold Poker Gang’s mysteries.
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