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Review by CathyCT -- An Imperfect Crime by Fred G. Baker
[Following is a volunteer review of "An Imperfect Crime" by Fred G. Baker.]
The main story line to the plot is not what you may think it is when you first start reading the book. A few chapters in and you realize your main character is only a small piece to the mystery puzzle. There are several twists and turns to the story combining several characters with different backgrounds in a nicely woven tale of serial murder.
An Imperfect Crime: A Detective Sanchez/Father Montero Mystery by Fred G. Baker walks you through the idea of the characters pretending to kill someone as publicity for book they had written. The introductory trio of characters decide to follow the plot in one of their novels, The Perfect Crime, to see how it would work. Two gentlemen and their female companion are sure they can pull it off and then – have the publishers dying to publish the book.
This is where the story gets exciting – readers may decide the trio did not really think this through. How far do they want to take this story before letting everyone know it was only a hoax? Cut to the wanna-be published author in jail for the murder of his partner and facing the death penalty. He was sure he would be let out after the trial – all the evidence was circumstantial and there was no body. He told his attorney about his book certainly that would get him off the hook for murder; or would it? He had been in contact with his friends through the trial they would show up and get him out of jail, right?
The staged crime scene, the evidence all pointing in the same direction, clues that were obvious and an alleged murderer who kept waiting for his friends to come and clear things up. Our detectives enter the case and the investigation after the trial because this just is too perfect for them. They do not believe he really did it. Readers are primed to know he is innocent so we want to know how the police will figure this out. Detectives Sanchez and Montero follow several leads for missing persons in California, murders in Phoenix, drugs and gun trades and trafficking in Mexico. Fred Baker pens a suspenseful tale of many seemingly unrelated crimes and unsolved cases through the history of our main character trio. Each one in our group has encountered someone who is part of a known drug cartel or someone who had been murdered or someone who suddenly just disappeared. The detectives must work the other evidence to discover how they are all related and clear up this mystery.
I gave An Imperfect Crime 4 out of 4 stars . The novel is well- written with no grammar or spelling errors. The pace is even with good flow throughout. The situations and story lines are real life and not totally unbelievable as some mystery novels are. Baker writes a novel that will keep you guessing until the end and even then, you want more. … maybe the next Sanchez / Montero case novel.
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An Imperfect Crime
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The main story line to the plot is not what you may think it is when you first start reading the book. A few chapters in and you realize your main character is only a small piece to the mystery puzzle. There are several twists and turns to the story combining several characters with different backgrounds in a nicely woven tale of serial murder.
An Imperfect Crime: A Detective Sanchez/Father Montero Mystery by Fred G. Baker walks you through the idea of the characters pretending to kill someone as publicity for book they had written. The introductory trio of characters decide to follow the plot in one of their novels, The Perfect Crime, to see how it would work. Two gentlemen and their female companion are sure they can pull it off and then – have the publishers dying to publish the book.
This is where the story gets exciting – readers may decide the trio did not really think this through. How far do they want to take this story before letting everyone know it was only a hoax? Cut to the wanna-be published author in jail for the murder of his partner and facing the death penalty. He was sure he would be let out after the trial – all the evidence was circumstantial and there was no body. He told his attorney about his book certainly that would get him off the hook for murder; or would it? He had been in contact with his friends through the trial they would show up and get him out of jail, right?
The staged crime scene, the evidence all pointing in the same direction, clues that were obvious and an alleged murderer who kept waiting for his friends to come and clear things up. Our detectives enter the case and the investigation after the trial because this just is too perfect for them. They do not believe he really did it. Readers are primed to know he is innocent so we want to know how the police will figure this out. Detectives Sanchez and Montero follow several leads for missing persons in California, murders in Phoenix, drugs and gun trades and trafficking in Mexico. Fred Baker pens a suspenseful tale of many seemingly unrelated crimes and unsolved cases through the history of our main character trio. Each one in our group has encountered someone who is part of a known drug cartel or someone who had been murdered or someone who suddenly just disappeared. The detectives must work the other evidence to discover how they are all related and clear up this mystery.
I gave An Imperfect Crime 4 out of 4 stars . The novel is well- written with no grammar or spelling errors. The pace is even with good flow throughout. The situations and story lines are real life and not totally unbelievable as some mystery novels are. Baker writes a novel that will keep you guessing until the end and even then, you want more. … maybe the next Sanchez / Montero case novel.
******
An Imperfect Crime
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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