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Cargando... Twice Bitten: A Matt Davis Mystery (The Matt Davis Mystery Series)por Joe Perrone, Jr.
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While in prison, Ron Trentweiler, a petty thief, is befriended by an itinerant preacher and gets "religion." Upon his release, he founds a small, storefront Pentecostal-style church in his native, rural Alabama. Enter Winona Stepp, a visitor at one of his services who seems to know all about "Brother Ron," as he has taken to calling himself, yet insists upon keeping her own past to herself. Things go smoothly for the pair, that is until Winona suggests using venomous snakes in their "act" and all hell breaks loose. Eventually, they make their way north into Matt's "backyard" in the Catskills, where things take a murderous twist. What secrets are hiding in Winona's closet? Is Brother Ron exactly what he appears to be? Is he a religious convert or just a con man? These and other questions confront Chief of Police, Matt Davis, along with the usual cast of characters in the new Matt Davis Mystery, TWICE BITTEN, as he once more comes face to face with murder in the sleepy village of Roscoe, NY. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As you might expect from the cover and the title, snakes are involved, no less their venomous qualities. Don’t let these members of the cast put you off: even the most ophidiophobic of readers won’t get too spooked.
The story starts with the death of a Meth dealer: despite a list of obvious suspects for his murder, things aren’t quite adding up for Matt Davis, chief of police. Ron and Winona Trentweiler are a dysfunctional and somewhat itinerant couple who call themselves ‘preachers’, using the rather dubious practice of snake-handling and drinking strychnine in their ‘sermons’. All to demonstrate that the good Lord will protect those that believe in Him. All a load of tosh, of course, but people will blindly follow what they wish to believe, much to Ron and Winona’s financial advantage… But a string of deaths in their wake comes to the attention of Matt.
I will say that there was a little bit of predictability in this story: I did guess the identity of the murderer not long after the character was introduced, and I did guess the nature of the ending. Notwithstanding, I really enjoyed the book. I enjoyed being beside Matt Davis as he followed up his leads. I rather liked that he wasn’t a single and attractively rough-around-the-edges-from-the-job character. He was middle-aged, genial and caring, and still in love with his wife. A nice, normal man with a penchant for fly fishing. His wife’s brush with cancer was a poignant touch—even fictional characters have not-so-perfect lives.
The story is written in both first person and third person povs. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if it would work: but it did and it worked well. You do have to keep your wits about you just a tad, as the story jumps from time-frame to time-frame. It’s quite a pot-pourri of style ingredients, but this cake comes out of the oven perfectly baked!
Along with the author’s easy-going style, this is a very enjoyable whodunnit. (