Review: Fun and Twisty Plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
In RP Dahlke's "Red Dead Heart" her heroine, Lalla Bains, comes upon a homeless man as he lay dying. This isn't just any guy, tho, it's a guy who had the hots for her, wrote poetry and pasted a blizzard of paper snowflakes to her vintage candy-apple red Cadillac. Lalla is still bending over the bleeding man when the cops show up--and that's only the beginning of her troubles. In this zany romp of a mystery, RP Dahlke takes us on a wild ride--from a crop duster a thousand feet above the central valley in California to a dark alley behind a Chinese restaurant run by a local Vietnamese family. Who would kill an unarmed, harmless homeless man--but more importantly, why? Through various plot twists and turns we learn that some people will stop at nothing to seek revenge--and sometimes "the more there is, the less we see."