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Chasing Smoke (2008)

by Bill Cameron(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1606480189 (ISBN13: 9781606480182)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bleak House Books

review 1: I connected more with this book than with Lost Dog because this protagonist, Detective Skin Kadash, is a guy I can go the distance with. He's complex, complicated, and conflicted. He's fighting cancer, trying to stay off cigarettes, and working unofficially to solve a string of murders dismissed as suicides. The descriptions of Portland were terrific, although at times I found myself hopping over some of them - probably because it's all familiar to me and I didn't feel the need to be grounded in the setting like an out-of-towner might. And I have to admit to getting a little frustrated with Skin's failure to take the kind of care of himself the way a man in his condition should. I became less-than-sympathetic about his stomach pain when he got so involved in the case he di... moredn't eat. But, hey, I can't go more than two hours without a snack - a reader less devoted to cheese crackers and cashews wouldn't be bothered by that.
review 2: I thoroughly enjoyed Cameron's first novel, Lost Dog, and looked forward to his second book, Chasing Smoke. I was not disappointed. For me the heart and soul of this book was not the murder plot, but the character of Skin Kadash, the detective being eaten away by cancer. In Chasing Smoke (a wonderful and appropriate title, by the way), we not only get to follow Skin's thought process as he untangles the deaths of a group of cancer patients, but his struggle, both emotional and physical, with his own illness. Well done! less

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