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Ricochet (A Jack Stryker mystery) (Paperback)

by Paula Gosling (Author)
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  • Paperback: 186 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (7 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751534692
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751534696
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 620,653 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'As if Garrison Keillor was meeting Miss Marple for the first time.' Evening Standard

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When Professor Mayhew is murdered in her own home, Jack Stryker's team believe they are investigating a straightforward case of domestic homicide. Jack, however, has his doubts, though he isn't sure whether his uncertain frame of mind is due to the case or the fact that his relationship with Kate Trevorne is going through a rocky patch. Kate, meanwhile, has been receiving a series of unpleasant and anonymous phone calls at her department in the university. Too proud and stubborn to ask Jack for professional help, she decides to trace the caller herself. Then a student of the dead professor is murdered in an unsavoury part of town while he was working his shift as porter in the hospital's emergency department. It could have been a mugging which went too far, except that a few hours beforehand he had called the police station and spoken to Jack in some distress. What possible motive could link the two killings, and is Kate's refusal to tell Jack about the phone calls preventing him from knowing all the facts? Another blissfully serpentine mystery from the mistress of the genre.
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4.0 out of 5 stars MASTER CRAFTSWOMAN WEAVES YET ANOTHER INTRICATE STORY, 22 Jun 2002
By Frances M. Shaw (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ricochet (A Jack Stryker mystery) (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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