Review: the master of the clever twist
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2013
Triple Threat is a collection of three short stories by popular American author, Jeffrey Deaver, available on Kindle. Fast is a Katherine Dance story in which Dance shows, in a deadline situation, that she has more strings to her bow than kinesic analysis; Game is a story about a predatory pair who try to fleece an old woman out of her riches, not counting on her smarts, her loyal employees and a tenacious PI named Eddie Caruso; Paradice is a, Location Scout short story in which John Pellam finds that brake failure on a dangerous mountain road leads to murder, assault, kidnap and a trap; this little closed-room mystery has obviously been written some time ago, as the dated references to various technologies reveal. In each story Deaver is, as always, the master of the clever twist at the end.