Review: A new tough-minded investigator
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
Thomas Matthews offers up a new character called Bobby Jacobi, a fraud investigator for an insurance company in San Francisco. Jacobi puts me in mind of Keller, the rough-crusted hit man in the series by Lawrence Block. Jacobi wields a sharp tongue and a sharp hook where one hand used to be, and uses both to his advantage while figuring out if life insurance claims are bogus. In this story Jacobi follows the trail of a claimant who not only had terminal cancer but also managed to get himself on the wrong side of some seriously nasty loan sharks -- if one didn't kill him, surely the other must have. Or did they? If you're a mystery fan, I suggest you get yourself a copy and find out.