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The Player: A Mystery (2014)

by Brad Parks(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250044081 (ISBN13: 9781250044082)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Carter Ross Mystery

review 1: Residents in a Newark neighborhood are getting sick and dying,and reporter Carter Ross a investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle Examiner is asked by the granddaughter of a victim to check it out, and find out what's causing it.Although i like Detective and mystery novels, this latest Brad Parks is really good full of humor,action and good characters and a splash of Carter Ross's personal problems with his editor Tina Thompson and a really good finish makes this his best yet.
review 2: If you are a mystery reader and have not read the Carter Ross series, you must start. "The Player" is the 5th book in the series and they just keep getting better. That is saying something, since the fist book in the series "Faces of the Gone" won the Shamus Award for Best Fi... morerst Novel and the Nero Award for Best American Mystery. It was the first book to receive both awards. "The Player" continues the high quality of writing that Brad Parks started with "Faces of the Gone". Carter Ross is an investigative reporter for the Eagle Examiner, a newspaper in Newark NJ. The main character is smart, funny and self-deprecating. He is surrounded by a mix of other characters that add depth, breadth and more humor to each novel. Don't think the mystery or suspense are missing however, because they are not. I highly recommend this series as a whole to any mystery lover. If you can't commit to a series, then "The Player" is certainly a great one to pick up. less

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