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Innocent Monster: a book

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A thriller by Reed Farrel Coleman

Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart and it's been six years since Moe's brushed the dust off his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, … see full wiki

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Interesting Mystery But Hard to Get Into If You Did Not Read the Prior Books

Jul 9, 2012

by MichaelN
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I ordered this book from Amazon Vine not realizing it is a series of books with Investigator Moe Prager. Had I known I would have started with one of the earlier books. Though Moe seems to be an interesting character there is a lot in the book that is difficult to appreciate without reading the first books.

Sashi Blumstone is a child prodigy that disappeared. Sashi's mother (Cindy) happens to be the best friend of Moe's daughter (Sara) so he is asked to investigate her disappearence after the police have found nothing in 3 weeks.

Moe had given up his investigative business but decides to take this one pro bono. Sashi had first become famous at the age a four for one of her paintings and her fame continued until her disappearence. As Moe investigates he is drawn into a world of sleazy art dealers and collecters, many whom both hated Sashi and still coveted her paintings.

Moe comes across a security guard (Jimmy Palumbo), an ex-football player and decides to hire him to be his muscle to maybe "shake" some information out of some of his suspects. One of the "shaken" suspects gives them a whole bunch of names to check out. Not too long after the mystery appears solved but the "solution" leaves Moe cold, kind of like the mystery of how bees can fly. Moe never lets this go until he eventulally finds all his answers.

I really tried to like this book but there were too many references to the prior tales, especially with Moe's first two wives that it I wanted a lot more info to get insight into Moe. There were also several "uncomfortable" moments in the book especially involving Cindy and the ending of the book left me shaking my head. Therefore, I couldn't give this book more than 3 stars.

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