The Triggerman's Dance

On a rainy day, Rebecca Harris is shot to death at long range in the parking lot of the southern California newspaper where she works as the assistant to a liberal columnist. It quickly becomes apparent that Harris was almost certainly not the intended target. Rather, it was the columnist herself wh......more

Freaking BORING!!!!......more

"The only living things proximate to the event that remained truly unrippled were the eucalyptus tree and the poppies in the planter near where Rebecca, heart-shot and staggering, then heart-shot again, fell and died in the pouring rain." A disappointment from one of my favorite crime authors: T. Jef......more

The beginning of the novel was quite good, raising tensions and starting an interesting storyline. A normal guy who has to train with an FBI agent and work together to catch the murderer of a woman they both loved. So far so good. But then the book became weirder and weirder. The protagonist complai......more

This was a very entertaining book with an addictive, compelling style that continues to reinforce my opinion of T. Jefferson Parker as an outstanding author. While the plot does stretch credulity more than I prefer at times, the nature of the writing, the plot, and the excellent interplay between th......more