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Todesakt: Thriller (2013)

by Robert Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Goldmann Verlag

series

Lena Gamble

review 1: The Murder Season, Robert Ellis' latest Lena Gamble novel is a suspenseful police detective story, with enough twists and turns to keep the jaded reader hustling to finish. Ellis is a master of the kind of old fashioned cop investigating a murder, and Gamble follows the evidence wherever it leads. As the tension escalates, the story hits high gear.Lena Gamble is called in the depths of the night to a double homicide at a big nightclub. One of the victims is Johnny Bosco, a club owner to the stars with connections to the District Attorney, but the other victim is Jacob Gant, recently acquitted of the sensational murder of Lily Hight because the DNA evidence linking him to the crime disappeared. The police immediately suspect Lily Hight's father of the crime and a traff... moreic cam video places him on a road minutes after the murder, but its a case that would be horrible for the LA police and district attorney because who will actually convict the father of killing the killer of his beautiful lily white daughter. The two assistant district attorneys, Bennett and Watson do not want to touch this case, and the police brass have it in for Gamble because of the actions in prior novels in this detective series.So Gamble and Vaughn, another prosecutor in the DA office are told to handle the case, which has all the hallmarks of a career destroyer.At the same time Cobb, the original detective on the case, who seems to have secrets, starts to follow Gamble around.Gamble soon starts to suspect that the original case against Gant was somehow wrongly prosecuted. Maybe Gant was not the killer that everyone thinks and the killer is still out there. She gets the murder book from Cobb, but finds holes in its story. She shares her findings with Vaughn and they ponder the fact that Gant was railroaded. But if Gant did not kill Lily Hight, how did Bennett, Watson and Cobb try him anyway and why, and who did kill Lily Hight.These are the questions that Gamble must answer and as she follows the evidence and strikes out on her own to solve the original case, she finds the original assumptions about the case all wrong. Lily Hight was not so lily white as she appeared, Bennett has an ugly past, the district attorney and his hired goon are snooping around, the murder book looks like it was doctored. The bodies start to pile up, and the evidence leads to a central figure in the original case, but is it really him? Or are we being played. A great read.
review 2: last of the series (so far...?). as good as the other two - great protagonist. female police detective in robbery & homicide who is really, really smart.this is definitely a police procedural, but we're also deeply in the prosecutors' office. two quibbles - and its with the series, not this book:- is EVERYONE who works in the district attorney's office dirty? - lena gamble is a woman surrounded by men. she's attractive, smart, accomplished and driven. and yet this is the first book she has sex in - and we only know that after its done. just a line saying 'yep, she had sex'. by this the third book, i couldn't help but wonder what the hell? is it the author being prudish? less

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