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A review by ctgt
Walking the Perfect Square by Reed Farrel Coleman
4.0
I read [b:Gun Church|13057061|Gun Church|Reed Farrel Coleman|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329199208s/13057061.jpg|18222203] a week ago and had to go out and pick up the first book in the Moe Prager series. I loved GC and I wasn't disappointed with WtPS.
Definitely not your typical PI book, I mean, he's not even a PI. Prager is an ex-cop now retired because of a knee injury. Prager gets a call from a hospice nurse saying that a patient wants to see him and only him even though Prager doesn't know the patient. The story then jumps back and forth in time to a period right after his injury when he became involved in a missing persons case. He starts out as a very reluctant participant and doesn't really consider himself a legitimate investigator because in the one case that made his name, he believes he just got lucky.
The case involves a college student who basically falls off the grid at a party and his family is still searching for him.
Moe is introduced to the father by a former colleague who just so happens to be bucking for a bump in rank. He instantly dislikes the father but is still drawn slowly into the case. He becomes more entangled after he meets the missing students older sister...and well, you need to read the rest yourself.
I'm very interested to see where the series goes from here. Many of these PI types are the rough and tumble type and can easily take of themselves. With his bum knee, it's not quite as easy for Prager.
I'm always looking for something a little different in the detective or PI genre, because let's face it, there are plenty of these stories out there and frankly many of them are mediocre.
Definitely not your typical PI book, I mean, he's not even a PI. Prager is an ex-cop now retired because of a knee injury. Prager gets a call from a hospice nurse saying that a patient wants to see him and only him even though Prager doesn't know the patient. The story then jumps back and forth in time to a period right after his injury when he became involved in a missing persons case. He starts out as a very reluctant participant and doesn't really consider himself a legitimate investigator because in the one case that made his name, he believes he just got lucky.
The case involves a college student who basically falls off the grid at a party and his family is still searching for him.
Moe is introduced to the father by a former colleague who just so happens to be bucking for a bump in rank. He instantly dislikes the father but is still drawn slowly into the case. He becomes more entangled after he meets the missing students older sister...and well, you need to read the rest yourself.
I'm very interested to see where the series goes from here. Many of these PI types are the rough and tumble type and can easily take of themselves. With his bum knee, it's not quite as easy for Prager.
I'm always looking for something a little different in the detective or PI genre, because let's face it, there are plenty of these stories out there and frankly many of them are mediocre.