Alex and Milo seem to tag team their way through this new Murder story by prolific American crime writer Jonathan Kellerman.
The story starts with the murder of Elise Freeman who is found in a bathtub full of dry ice. Very dead and rather dry. She has left a DVD detailing possible murder suspects and an account of a year and a half of abuse at the hands of staff at a prestigious private school. Milo enlists Dr. Delaware as he goes through an assortment of suspects from staff to students.
I guess Americans would find it interesting that a prestigious private school is at the centre of this mystery. I tended to get a little confused as to WHY Dr. Delaware was involved. I’m not sure I found the answer out. He didn’t seem that necessary to plot development.
There were the usual red herrings and I was a little annoyed that the dry ice itself was indeed an irrelevance and a large red herring fitting nicely into the “plot development” compartment.
Still Kellerman novels are a nice easy read. What do I like about them, well strangely I liked the food angle that always sees Milo eating somewhere, his ginormous appetite always a source of character development. I liked descriptions of some of the characters (i.e. the two prostitutes) and I liked the Marty Mendfoza character.
Not brilliant somewhat formulaic, but an easy reader though I feel that Kellerman is making the Milo character more believable than Alex
