Double Homicide

by Faye Kellerman

Other authorsJonathan Kellerman

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Where:MB

Publication

Warner

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: For the first time ever, bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellermen team up to deliver the launch book in a thrilling new series of short crime novels. This book�printed as a reversible volume with two different covers�contains two stories featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities. It's a reader's dream come true: a new series co-written by the royal couple of crime fiction�Jonathan and Faye Kellerman! Each book contains two novels jointly written by the duo, featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities. "In the Land of the Giants" has Boston homicide detectives Michael MacCain and Doris Sylvestor investigating the suspicious death of a college basketball star. And in "Still Life," the co-worker of a Santa Fe art gallery is murdered, forcing detectives Darryl Two Moons and Steve Katz to put aside holiday celebrations and set things right..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member relah

My boyfriend's sister gave him this book for his birthday and for lack of anything else to read one night, I picked it up. I learnt two important lessons from the Kellermans.
1. My boyfriend's sister must really, really hate him and,
2. even when you're expectations are extremely low, there is always

room for disappointment.
Wish I stabbed myself in the eyes instead.

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LibraryThing member amacmillen

Detectives solve a murder in Boston and Santa Fe. Straight forward whodunits. One involves a basketball player that dies in a shooting because of an aneurism.

In the other an art dealer is murdered and the husband of another painter does the deed.

LibraryThing member bobandladyjane

All her books leave me wanting more of her books. Excellent writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LibraryThing member jendoyle2000

I didn't love this book (or, books, I suppose I should say). I'm not a short story fan in general and, although I love both Kellermans as authors, I wanted more from each story. There wasn't anything wrong with the writing or the stories themselves, I just wanted more.

LibraryThing member Carol420

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz work nights in the Special Investigations unit. One freezing night they get a call that breaks the usual tedious pattern of domestic disturbances and abusive husbands. In this case it is a homicide, which took place in an art gallery. It looks like your

usual investigation, but things are a little more complicated than that, since one of the officers had an altercation with the victim a little while ago. In Boston, Dorothy is a single-mother policewoman who has two kids and is having trouble with her youngest one. One day when she was cleaning his room she found a gun in his backpack. But soon after she thinks she cannot handle any more, she gets the news about her oldest son being at the stage of a shooting in a club. The violence started after a confrontation between two basketball teams, and Dorothy's son plays in one of them. The victim is the start in her son's team, so Dorothy has to deal a lot of stuff. She has the help of Michael McCain, a policeman who has lost his charm and is not as appealing to women as he once was, is living in a dump and does not have much to look forward to.

Efforts of a husband and wife team are evident in this book. I love Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware books and Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker series, but this was just hard to follow and the different writing styles was difficult to get used to. The story line was good in spite of all this so I gave it three stars.

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LibraryThing member jamespurcell

Interesting but not compelling, sidebar for two very successful mystery writers

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