Playing and joking around at their regular game of poker,
the five LAPD detectives do not realize it will be their
last game together. The next morning, Detectives Mike Lomax
and Terry Biggs receive the call that their fellow
officer's wife is dead. It looks like a professional hit,
but they can't find any motive for the murder. The logical
suspect is the husband, but neither Mike nor Terry can
visualize their co-worker as the killer. When they delve
into Reggie and Jo Drabyak's life, they discover her
business of remodeling houses and then flipping them for a
profit. Jo was a partner with other cops' wives and a
mystery writer, who uses the flipped homes in her books.
Their leads stall; then another murder occurs. They now
have a serial killer who is targeting LAPD wives. Lomax and
Biggs receive pressure from the hierarchy to solve the case
quickly. Their humorous and quick-witted banter eases the
tension, but they just can't put their finger on the
elusive thread that connects the cases.
I have not had this much fun reading a murder mystery in
quite awhile. The back-and-forth bantering of the
wisecracking Lomax and Biggs vastly entertains, while Mr.
Karp delivers a first-rate plot with enough twist and turns
at a record fast pace that guarantees to surprise readers.
I enjoyed this book so much that I am going right out to
buy the two previous Lomax and Biggs mysteries.
Nora Bannister is a bestselling mystery novelist who buys
run-down houses in LA. While her business partners
turn the house into a showpiece, Nora makes it the scene
of a grisly murder in her House To Die For series.
As soon as the new book goes on sale, so does the house —
and the bidding frenzy begins. It seems a lot of people
are willing to pay a lot of money to live in a real house
where a fictional character has died a violent
death.
Just before Nora’s latest book hits the
market, one of her house-flipping partners is murdered.
LAPD Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are assigned
the case, but this one is a hot potato – the dead woman is
also the wife of one of their fellow cops. As Mike and
Terry dig into the victim’s private life, more bodies turn
up . . .
Is someone stalking the house flippers or
is the murderer after cops’ wives? Either way, Mike and
Terry have to track down the killer before he murders his
next logical target — Marilyn Biggs, Terry’s
wife.
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