Review: Very Highly Recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2000
Lee Driver's The Good Die Twice is the start of an extraordinary new mystery series featuring Chase Dagger and his Native American partner Sara Morningsky. Combining Native American tradition with the guts and gore of a  solid murder mystery, The Good Die Twice is certainly at the top of my best  books list.  Five years ago wealthy Robert Tyler's wife disappeared and  is presumed dead. Her body was never found. Five years after Rachel Tyler's  disappearance, Sara Morningsky, a Native American 18-year-old with the gift  of the ability to shapeshift into either a hawk or a wolf, witnesses a  mysterious woman's murder in the present. When she attends a social event  with Chase Dagger, Sara recognizes the woman on the wall as the mysterious  woman she saw brutally murdered.  Sara could not report the murder to  the police since a shapeshifter could never be convincing. When she drags  Dagger to the crime scene, they find a black, possibly topaz, earring the  size of at least fifty carats. Little do they suspect the danger the have  let themselves in for, or the dangerous story behind the earring presumed  to belong to the murder victim.  With a creative ingenuity seldom  matched, Driver presents the reader with the sexy, mysterious,  thirty-year-old Dagger and his perfect counterpoint Sara. Combine them with  the rowdy Einstein, a scarlet macaw with an incredible memory. Add Dagger's  fiancée wanna-be, a woman with a talent for clothes and the inability to  accept that Dagger won't marry her. Complete the mix with Skizzy, the  paranoid schizophrenic with a talent for creating legal documents. The  results are a suspenseful blend that will leave readers clamoring for more.  Driver also writes as the extraordinary Sandra Tooley, the author of  When The Dead Speak and Nothing Else Matters. This author's fresh approach  to crime-fiction, with an overlay of the mystical that doesn't stifle but  enlivens is a rare blend of Native American tradition and crime-fiction  guaranteed to satisfy.Cindy Penn, Reviewer