- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (2 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316860662
- ISBN-13: 978-0316860666
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,021,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Professor Mayhew is murdered in her own home, Jack Stryker's team believe they are investigating a case of domestic homicide. Jack, however, has his doubts. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is receiving threatening calls at the university. Is her refusal to tell Jack depriving him of essential facts?
About the Author
Paula Gosling was born in Detroit but lives in England. Her 1st novel, A RUNNING DUCK, won the John Creasey Award & was filmed as FAIR GAME. A past Chairman of the CWA when not committing murder by typewriter is in her sewing studio creating abstrct embroideries & quilts.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
RICOCHET starts quietly, deceptively so, as good mysteries do. Characters are introduced and actions are played out - having nothing to do with one another. Or so we are cleverly led to believe. But then Ms. Gosling begins to interweave the story's elements, stretching and further developing them, while subtly fastening them together into a puzzling pattern. Partway through, the reader is engrossed but can make no sense of it. One hangs in there, though, as experience tells us it is worth the wait. The skeins of characters and their actions are woven tighter and tighter until, in the end, a delightful and satisfying creation emerges.
The settings are a university and a big city hospital in Michigan. Conflicts arise when the careerists from these institutions stress over waning budgets and driven egos. Instability ensues with disastrous results.
Back from previous books are Lt. Jack Stryker, dedicated homicide detective, and his love interest, Kate Trevorne, a university English professor, who happens to distrust the police. Watching these two independent-minded people once again attempt to keep their public lives separate from their private ones, adds joy to the intriguing plot twists. And strengthening the hues are some favorite old characters as well as interesting new ones whose combined humorous side-adventures are mainstays of a Gosling novel.
I highly recommend RICOCHET. Veteran Paula Gosling has not lost her nimble touch. (Now, if only I could buy her books this side of the Atlantic!)
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