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Killer Triggers
by Joe Kenda
Joe Kenda is one of the most successful detectives in the country (with something like a 92% case solved success rate, if I remember right), but he also has to be one of the most amusing to listen to. I first got hooked on his style of storytelling from watching Investigation Discovery's Homicide Hunter, which ran for 9 seasons in which he recounted some of his worst and most puzzling cases. In that show, you very quickly will realize that this guy has one of the driest, wittiest senses of humor that you will ever encounter. At least once every episode, I found myself laughing, no matter how awful or confusing the case itself may have been.
(Touching on the show, though - if you are a fan, you'll likely know the outcome of most of the cases covered in this book. All of them that he goes over in this were cases he also featured on the show; I only realized this because I'm currently going through a rewatch of the show with my grandmother. Anyway, the book does go into more detail than the show does, purely because he's not being interrupted by the reenactment, other detectives, reporters, etc. So even if you've watched the show, this book is still worth picking up! Not only are the cases more detailed, but he's also far more uncensored in this book than he can be on a network television show.)
I know that most of this book was likely ghostwritten - his first one was as well, and in this one he acknowledges someone at the end who helped him tell his story, or something along those lines - but just based on how downright funny so much of this book is and how much insider information is included (like the fact that a lot of K9 unit commands are in German so that suspects can't easily call them off or confuse the dogs, and as someone with a German minor, this fascinates me and I want to know more), it definitely feels like he sat there with the person who wrote it all down just chatting and laughing about these old, puzzling cases and that a lot of it had to be verbatim to what he was saying aloud. Even if he didn't physically sit down and type out this book, it reads 100% in his voice.
Honestly, I'll read any books or anything that Kenda puts out. He's just such a true delight to listen to. I hope this second book isn't the last we get from him!
(Touching on the show, though - if you are a fan, you'll likely know the outcome of most of the cases covered in this book. All of them that he goes over in this were cases he also featured on the show; I only realized this because I'm currently going through a rewatch of the show with my grandmother. Anyway, the book does go into more detail than the show does, purely because he's not being interrupted by the reenactment, other detectives, reporters, etc. So even if you've watched the show, this book is still worth picking up! Not only are the cases more detailed, but he's also far more uncensored in this book than he can be on a network television show.)
I know that most of this book was likely ghostwritten - his first one was as well, and in this one he acknowledges someone at the end who helped him tell his story, or something along those lines - but just based on how downright funny so much of this book is and how much insider information is included (like the fact that a lot of K9 unit commands are in German so that suspects can't easily call them off or confuse the dogs, and as someone with a German minor, this fascinates me and I want to know more), it definitely feels like he sat there with the person who wrote it all down just chatting and laughing about these old, puzzling cases and that a lot of it had to be verbatim to what he was saying aloud. Even if he didn't physically sit down and type out this book, it reads 100% in his voice.
Honestly, I'll read any books or anything that Kenda puts out. He's just such a true delight to listen to. I hope this second book isn't the last we get from him!