Cold Case is the latest from Faye Kellerman in her series with Peter Decker and I must confess that trying to work my way through this book gave me something of a headache.
In a nutshell - a music producer is found executed in the boot of his hijacked car. The case bears striking resemblance to a murder that occurred 15 years earlier which involved a local guidance counsellor.
The older case has remained unsolved and the news of the music producers death has prompted a local billionaire, who's life was shaped by the guidance counsellor, to offer a lot of money to reopen the cold case.
My problem with the story was that it seemed to make impossible leaps to try and keep the story hanging together.
- Murders that have crossed 15 years with similarities just takes it too far
- Links from lines in a rap song that serve as a clue
- All in all too many characters to keep track of with tentative links across the story
As an aside - the Chris Donatti character - who readers will know from previous books, could be an interesting one to continue with... but not if he is going to be used to randomly drop clues in when the story is looking for a new link.
Author: Faye Kellerman
Title: Cold Case
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-724325-9
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Rated the book a 3 out of 5.
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