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Dark Side of the Morgue

av Raymond Benson

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Spike Berenger is back in another Rock 'n' Roll Hit! Musicians in progressive rock bands in Chicago are being murderedâ??one by one. The local police have no clues, but several of the musicians who fear they're next on the hit list claim that the killer is a ghost from the pastâ??a woman who was reported missing and presumed dead for over thirty years… (mer)

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I love finding new-to-me authors and books. Especially when the book turns out to be as good as this one did. A nice plus, Lee Child's blurb on the front, "Benson is a top-class thriller craftsman who know showbiz and music like the back of his hand. And unbeatable combination."
Well, hell, that line alone put the book to the top of the nightstand section of Mt Git'r'Read when it arrived in my order from High Crimes Mystery Bookshop. And I was lucky to have some quiet shifts during our last activity, so I took it in with me and finished it quickly. A very compelling, turn-the-page-faster, kind of book.
I love the name Spike, ever since James Marsters first showed up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as bad boy William the Bloody aka Spike, so I had a fairly immediate interest in the main character of the book, part owner of Rockin' Security, the go-to security peeps if you are a rock star and need some protection or private investigatin' done. Might be shallow, but there it is. The book stands up just fine in its own right without my little shallow added bonus.
There's no such thing as this progressive rock movement in Chicago, or Chicagoprog as it's called in the book, but the way Benson writes prog-rock family tree, you'd really think it existed.
The mystery is good, even though I figured out the whodunnit about halfway through. I didn't mind, though, the story was compelling and I wanted to make sure I was right, there were a couple of characters who had the motive and opportunity.
Five compelling rock'n'roll beans...... ( )
  Squeex | Jun 18, 2010 |
I quite enjoy a good who-dunnit, and found this to be just that! Spike Berenger is a little rough around the edges, and so is his investigative style, but isn't that to be expected in a good detective story? The story kept me guessing right to the end and I enjoy when a book can do that. There's nothing worse than figuring out the story before all is revealed! I would definitely pick up another of Raymond Benson's mysteries. ( )
  Neverwithoutabook | Dec 10, 2009 |
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Someone is killing off Chicagoprog (a style of music) band members, and all signs point to a woman who has been dead for nearly 40 years. Spike Berenger, a New York PI that specializes in the music business, is asked to come investigate. Can he figure out who the murderer is before all the band members are gone?

This book took awhile to get into. I had trouble keeping the characters straight since so many were introduced all at once. I'm glad I stuck with it because I got hooked.

I could have swore that I had this all figured out until the last 40 pages or so. Then the dramatic twist took me completely by surprise and I didn't quite get it until Spike himself did. I love books that can do that and still keep the story believable.

It looks like there are a couple more books involving Spike out there, and I plan to pick up another one and see how it goes.

3/5 (would have been 4 if the beginning was a little smoother) ( )
1 rösta jasmyn9 | Oct 13, 2009 |
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Spike Berenger is back in another Rock 'n' Roll Hit! Musicians in progressive rock bands in Chicago are being murderedâ??one by one. The local police have no clues, but several of the musicians who fear they're next on the hit list claim that the killer is a ghost from the pastâ??a woman who was reported missing and presumed dead for over thirty years

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