Review: If you like Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware you're in for a treat...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2013
Stephen Carpenter's protagonist Jack Rhodes is a totally likable mystery writer.Killer is the first in the Jack Rhodes mystery series & I'm hoping there will be many more.Carpenter has many writing credits to his name, so it is not surprising that hewrites a page turner here.I'm set to read the second in the series with enthusiasm!I've long been a Jonathan Kellerman/Alex Delaware fan... so I pounced on Jack Rhodes because he reminds me of Alex Delaware: bright, funny, astute, observant...at times poetic. Unlike Delaware ...Rhodes comes into the first novel as a walking wounded protagonist so part of his journey is one of healing as he personally solves the mystery of his "lost weekend" with a clever maniacal serial killer who is looking for a spokesperson or as "Killer" puts it: his St Paul to make him famous.Don't start this book late at night unless you're an insomniac who plans to finish reading it before dawn's early light.