Legally Dead
A Novel
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Former U.S. Marshall and independently wealthy Mike Venturi creates new identities for people who need to disappear. Then someone finds out where the "legally dead" are and starts killing or threatening them. Helping the widowed Venturi stop the violence are his old Marine pal, Danny; Danny's wife, Luz; his mother-in-law; and a female obstetrician Mike romances. Mark Deakins reads as if he's telling the listener a story. If his tone is sometimes matter-of-fact, there's plenty of action to sustain interest. You always know which character is speaking even if, except for some accents, he doesn't differentiate them. Danny takes a shine to one of the "dead," and the romantic tension is audible. Even with all the activity, the listener might not be prepared for the explosive ending. J.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
June 16, 2008
In this explosive first in a new suspense series from Edgar-finalist Buchanan, Michael Venturi, a deputy U.S. marshal involved in running the Federal Witness Protection Program, realizes a mobster he's in charge of, Gino Salvi, has been sexually assaulting and killing young girls in Flemington, N.H., where Salvi is hiding out. Fired by the Feds after Salvi takes part in an armored car robbery, Venturi and an old dog he's adopted head for Florida, where he and some trusted allies set upa private agency for staging fake deaths and fashioning new identities. While some of Venturi's clients appear to need a good lawyer rather than a faked death and new identity, Buchanan constructs some ingeniously clever scenarios for rendering these people “legally dead.” An expert at ratcheting up suspense and creating believable, flawed characters, Buchanan (Love Kills
andeight other Britt Montero novels) gets thisnew series off to a powerhouse start.
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