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Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman

1 rating: 4.0

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Tags: Books, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Fiction, Murder Mystery Thriller, John March

Author: Peter Spiegelman

Genre: Mystery

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: February 12, 2008

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A Little Slow but Good Nonetheless!

Mar 6, 2009

by MichaelN

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I didn't give this story quite five stars because of the slow and uneventful pace of most of the book (a lot of the described action is mostly what transpires between John March and his live-in girlfriend). Don't get me wrong, it is still a decent whodunnit book.

March is asked by his brother David to find all he can about Wren, a woman he met on the Internet, had a subsequent affair with and is now being hounded by her (like the woman in Fatal Attraction). When John starts investigating, Wren turns up dead. John must then step-up his almost impossible search before David is tied to Wren by the police. John and David's lawyer (Mike) reason that David will be the likely suspect and the police will just focus on him.

The more John investigates we find that Wren may not have really been a "fatal attraction" type personality at all and her motives were for a different reason. There are a slew of possible suspects, including two of Wren's boyfriends, some of her artistic "subjects" and possibly even David or David's wife.

What makes this book interesting is the difficulty and the time constraint that John is working under (especially because David is mostly uncooperative and obnoxious)and that the author gives virtually nothing away until John finds things.

The writing style is very good, though I wish it had a little more action.

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