Review: Double Reading - Double Trouble, and twice as much fun!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
This is two full books in one. The first one I had read before, but how neat to have them both in the same "cover".In Too Good To Be Truman - Harry Truman, a down-and-out, unemployed, reporter/writer isn't doing so well since the newspaper fired him as their best reporter. His replacement can't even get a story straight, nor get it edited properly. What's a man with nose for news to do with out a job? The typewriter is haunting him because he just can't get it together to get a novel out, and the bills are all way past due. As Truman tries to make heads or tails out of his miserable days in the piles of bills comes a letter. It says he GAVE half a million dollars to the local homeless shelter-mission. Yeah right, if that were the case he wouldn't be living in the total disaster currently called "home" on the verge of loosing it all. Truman figures this is nothing but junk mail, or a joke from his nemesis, until the IRS shows up at his place. They want to know how he got the money and that he has to have an investigation now. Then the FBI appears and they want to know what crime(s) he committed to get that much money, and why his place looks like it does when the bank says he had so much cash travel through his account suddenly. And if that hadn't made his little corner of the world precarious enough some very mean thugs type guys want answers about the money and they want them fast!Well that is just a bit too much for Truman. He is involved whether he likes it or not and he must find out who did this and why before he winds up convicted of a crime he didn't commit, or killed trying to protect himself. It is looking 50/50 that it could go either way before he can get to the bottom of the matter. The bank says that is HIS signature, and sure enough, it matches! How on Earth did that happen? Where is that missing new singer? Young Darla has been kidnapped while her record sales are skyrocketing. Her producers are happy as can be as the money pours in from her hit sales, but the clues to find her are few and far between for the police. Truman has a few ideas of his own and what might be going on with the plot that has him framed and in deep trouble.Along the way Truman makes a few new friends and finds out some very inventive ways to turn the tables on people who have been less than kind to him. Some of that was quite funny! Truman gets his act together more and more as he works to solve his own case and clear his name.In Too Bad To Be Truman - our friend Harry is in a mess worse than ever. His novel is still totally stalled out, and he needs income. Before he knows which way is up, he is approached by a leading Mafia Boss. What could this man want with Harry? How about a full autobiography, and he isn't letting him give no for an answer. This Boss wants a tell ALL before he dies. In the middle of that, a man comes to Harry having seen him leave the Boss's meeting place. He wants to hire Harry to kill his wife! WHAT!?!? Harry is not a killer, but he can't resist a bit of "journalistic" digging now can he? After all, why does he want his wife dead? What did she do, or not do, and what is the connection with all the places that Harry has been tailing the guy and going to?I haven't finished my whole read with this book, but this sequel is even more fun in some ways than the first. It is a great compliment to the first novel. I am really looking forward to how this turns out, and having this in my phone to read as I go has only added to the adventure!