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The Worm: Poached Parody
Playing protector to a runaway puppy-faced poodle, Kaiser Wrench trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and a sex-hungry female.
104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2020
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May 14, 2021
The eighth entry of P.C. Hatter’s Kaiser Wrench series opens with the first-person narrator tiger detective’s reunion with an old flame, after which he kills the thugs who hold her hostage. Kaiser also has a new District Attorney to answer to, a Philippine eagle named Edmund Flagg, not to mention a boxer inspector named Allen Tremaine. Playing a significant role in the story as well is a poodle named Lacie Davis, whose stepfather, Samson Barns, is in the primaries for Governor of New York, having his eye on the American presidency, as well, though luckily, the novella isn’t ideologically-sensitive at all.
Kaiser tries to get information on Barns and his murdered wife Mary Davis, whom an individual known as the Worm murdered. The tiger meets various incarcerated criminals in his search for the Worm, with the fate of a copperhead named Arnold Cummings, believed to be deceased, serving as a decent driving factor to read the book to the end. A fire incinerates the Barns family’s summer home, and Kaiser with the aforementioned returning old flame finds himself held hostage, although he does manage to escape captivity. The book ends with a drive upstate and revelation on who the Worm is.
All in all, this was an okay quick read with a decent mystery and good animal characters, although one can certainly find it difficult to keep track of the species of the various dramatis personae, and a list of the named luminaries in the novella preceding the primary text would have definitely been welcome. The names of the characters also don’t indicate their species, for instance with Leo Granger having possibly been a better name for a lion than a beaver. There are also more than a handful errors in spelling and punctuation that the book’s editor, if there were indeed one, overlooked, and while the novella could have been better, it definitely wasn’t a total waste of time.
Kaiser tries to get information on Barns and his murdered wife Mary Davis, whom an individual known as the Worm murdered. The tiger meets various incarcerated criminals in his search for the Worm, with the fate of a copperhead named Arnold Cummings, believed to be deceased, serving as a decent driving factor to read the book to the end. A fire incinerates the Barns family’s summer home, and Kaiser with the aforementioned returning old flame finds himself held hostage, although he does manage to escape captivity. The book ends with a drive upstate and revelation on who the Worm is.
All in all, this was an okay quick read with a decent mystery and good animal characters, although one can certainly find it difficult to keep track of the species of the various dramatis personae, and a list of the named luminaries in the novella preceding the primary text would have definitely been welcome. The names of the characters also don’t indicate their species, for instance with Leo Granger having possibly been a better name for a lion than a beaver. There are also more than a handful errors in spelling and punctuation that the book’s editor, if there were indeed one, overlooked, and while the novella could have been better, it definitely wasn’t a total waste of time.
April 8, 2022
The Female in the Water mystery had me glued to my seat it was a wild ride that started with a Lucius being hired to find a missing wife but ended up being much more intense. This mystery was so intriguing it involved murder, blackmail, adultery, corruption and secrets. The twist come just when you think you have the mystery figured out bam more clues come out of the woodwork making you rethink your hypothesis. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries that are intriguing with a twist. This is my honest unbiased review that I am voluntarily giving.
April 8, 2022
In the book The Worm everything is looking up for Kaiser Wrench a new badge, friendship renewed and best of all his beautiful lynx Velvet. The only problem is Kaiser always finds a way to be right smack in the middle of a murder or mystery or both and this time is no exception. Kaiser and Velvet are on the trail of a possible murder suspect when it turns out the murder mystery goes deeper than anyone suspects because there is a whole cast of bad guys that are involved in one way or another. This storyline took me on a ride that I will never forget every time I thought I had it figured out in pops a new suspect and clues but I loved every minute. This is my honest unbiased review that I am voluntarily leaving of my own volition.
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