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Reel Estate Rip-Off (2011)

by Renee Pawlish(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1468016822 (ISBN13: 9781468016826)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Createspace

series

Reed Ferguson Mystery series

review 1: I'm currently reading "The Maltese Felon", taking Pawlish's Reed Ferguson series in order, which means that I read "This Doesn't Happen in the Movies" and enjoyed it enough to read "Reel Estate Rip-Off", which I enjoyed enough to... well, you get the idea. Pretty good. Reed Ferguson is not quite Kinsey Millhone, yet, but he's growing. The tone is generally light (well, as light as a murder mystery can be) but Pawlish doesn't overdo it. It's not laugh-out-loud funny, in the manner of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum stories, but then it's not meant to be... just some wit and charm in otherwise well-plotted and serious stories.I don't like to see Reed getting the crap beat out of him (being the empathetic sort that I am), but I appreciate that he stays wounded for a while a... morefter an accident or an assault. He doesn't bounce back like some TV superman detective with nary a hair out of place. He doesn't formulate a complex and convoluted solution in his head from a few scraps of evidence, like some modern Sherlock; rather he pokes around, asks questions, beats bushes, and generally does the grunt work of detecting, to get to a resolution. Any detective, private or police, needs some element of luck, but Pawlish never overdoes that. Reed earns his way to catching the bad guys. The plot does move right along and doesn't rely on grossly-contrived twists and 'deus ex machina' to get from point A to point B. Pawlish has been paying attention in her formal and informal studies. Good on her. I hope she writes more of this - I'll buy 'em.
review 2: We again are taken on another case with the amateur detective but not to be fooled. In this book he has certainly sharpened his skills which includes his witty banter and with the help of his interesting friends he manages to solve the mystery. Still with a touch of noir and ode to old Hollywood. I'm actually giving this one a 4.5 because I liked the first slightly more however this is still a really good mystery book. less

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