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A Freddy Malone Mystery #2
Wretched Need
Freddy Malone is back. After a disastrous end to his last case and relationship, Agent Malone is on administrative leave from the FBI. Without work and without a relationship, Freddy tries to fill his time and his mind with something. This, unfortunately, means the gym. Along with his new work out regime, he continues his monthly visits to Good Food, the restaurant owned and operated by his longest friend, Kyoko, who has a romantic interest in her new employee, Paul. He is also still doing the emotional rope-a-dope with Rick, his straight friend and partner.
A spur of the moment visit to a friend from his last case leads him to a new and even more twisted killer, the likes of which he has never seen before. While he unofficially thinks about the case, the appearance of a Detroit Police Officer unsettles Freddy more than he expects. As he is trying to get back on his feet, everything seems to keep shaking him up. Can Freddy maneuver through his self-doubt and ample free time to help stop the bizarre killing spree?
A spur of the moment visit to a friend from his last case leads him to a new and even more twisted killer, the likes of which he has never seen before. While he unofficially thinks about the case, the appearance of a Detroit Police Officer unsettles Freddy more than he expects. As he is trying to get back on his feet, everything seems to keep shaking him up. Can Freddy maneuver through his self-doubt and ample free time to help stop the bizarre killing spree?
271 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 19, 2015
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July 3, 2017
Poor Freddy, he has the wretched luck of finding all the mass murderers.
Paul is a sweet talking chef with a penchant for fresh meat straight off the hoof who works at Freddy's best friend Kyoko's restaurant. How better to cover your crime than to feed bits of it to your boss and her friend? He's a cool customer and not above pulling some seriously icky stuff to get his meat. Ahem.
Freddy, for his part, gets drawn into a mystery involving several dead homeless people who are missing some of their inside bits. Stuck on paid leave from the FBI for killing another mass murder in the first book, he's been working out (not willingly), living with his FBI partner/friend Rick and his wife Em, and trying not to obsess about the breakup of his short lived relationship with Todd. Though there's little he can do from the outside, Freddy is still a lawman and knows there's something not right going on and works with a coroner named Dee and a police officer named Eddie to get down to the bottom of the problem.
a warning
I like the friendship of the characters in this story. It's obvious they care for each other without getting too sentimental or over the top. However, while I do get that friends can get away with insulting one another without compunction, I do warn that some of the slurs, which run the gamut from ethnic to homophobic to misogynistic and back again, can be a bit too much at times, even if the characters don't treat them as insults themselves. The discussion flows naturally and, at times, is too funny to be taken too seriously, though it can be a bit uncomfortable to read.
Paul is a sweet talking chef with a penchant for fresh meat straight off the hoof who works at Freddy's best friend Kyoko's restaurant. How better to cover your crime than to feed bits of it to your boss and her friend? He's a cool customer and not above pulling some seriously icky stuff to get his meat. Ahem.
Freddy, for his part, gets drawn into a mystery involving several dead homeless people who are missing some of their inside bits. Stuck on paid leave from the FBI for killing another mass murder in the first book, he's been working out (not willingly), living with his FBI partner/friend Rick and his wife Em, and trying not to obsess about the breakup of his short lived relationship with Todd. Though there's little he can do from the outside, Freddy is still a lawman and knows there's something not right going on and works with a coroner named Dee and a police officer named Eddie to get down to the bottom of the problem.
a warning
I like the friendship of the characters in this story. It's obvious they care for each other without getting too sentimental or over the top. However, while I do get that friends can get away with insulting one another without compunction, I do warn that some of the slurs, which run the gamut from ethnic to homophobic to misogynistic and back again, can be a bit too much at times, even if the characters don't treat them as insults themselves. The discussion flows naturally and, at times, is too funny to be taken too seriously, though it can be a bit uncomfortable to read.
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