- Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: St. Martin's Minotaur; Auflage: 1 (Oktober 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312283989
- ISBN-13: 978-0312283988
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,8 x 16 x 3,1 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.034.108 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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There's something very old-fashioned about Robert J. Randisi's East of the Arch. While its serial-killer plot certainly offers some gripping moments, the characters--from the edge-treading lead cop to its self-absorbed politicians--are straight out of the How to Write Police Procedurals manual. And its principal perpetrator bears not even a hint of a redeeming quality. That Randisi nonetheless manages to keep one reading attests to the time-oiled ease of his prose.
Joe Keough (introduced in 1995's Alone with the Dead) is a former New York City homicide detective, now living in St. Louis and doing mind-numbing security work for that city's mayor. But East of the Arch finds his expertise in solving serial slayings needed across the Mississippi, in the bad-rep Illinois burg of East St. Louis, where two women have been murdered during the forcible removal of their unborn children. Struggling to avoid myriad distractions, including a job offer in Washington, D.C., and rumors of abuse within the prospective foster family of a boy he helped more than a year before (see In the Shadow of the Arch), the instinct-driven Keough and an eager young local detective search for a sociopathic misogynist who is already nurturing his next victim--"his crowning achievement."
Though Randisi's history as an administrative assistant with the NYPD informs his storytelling, East of the Arch is too predictable, with a rapid summing-up that wastes the tension it had been progressively building. The 40-year-old Keough, an unsettled diabetic-in-denial, has all the makings of a thoroughbred series figure, but this novel doesn't give him the challenge he needs to show his strengths. --J. Kingston Pierce
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St. Louis detective Joe Keough is faced with what may be his grisliest case. The brutalized bodies of two pregnant women are discovered in East St. Louis, Illinois, with their unborn babies literally torn from their wombs. The mayor of St. Louis agrees to "loan" Joe to East St. Louis because of his special knowledge of serial killers. Joe is assigned a partner, neophyte detective Marc Jeter, who's eager to learn everything he can from the wily veteran. When the case stalls, the East St. Louis mayor, eager for good press, orders a suspect arrested. There's no hard evidence against the suspected killer so his attorney springs him, and the two detectives are made the scapegoats for failing to solve the case. Furious that things have gone badly, Joe is completely unprepared for the shocking climax that turns the case on its head. Another exceptionally entertaining and riveting mystery from genre stalwart Randisi. Emily Melton
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excellent police procedural
9. Oktober 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Detective Joe Keough is a St. Louis Detective who is the mayor's "top cop" which means he is little more than a bodyguard. He misses working in the field. Joe is actually thinking of leaving and moving on to someplace where he can do some actual police work when the mayor of East St. Louis in Illinois asks the mayor of St. Louis to loan him a police officer who has had experience in apprehending serial killers.
Joe is the logical choice and he jumps at the chance to find out who is killing pregnant women and ripping out their fetuses. When Joe sets up his new office there are two such killings and he knows it is only a matter of time before there is a third. He is paired off with police officer Marc Jeeter, an idealistic man who badly wants catch this maniac and put him and put him in a cage but that won't be an easy take because there are political forces at work with a different agenda.
Robert J. Randisi is an author who knows how to write an excellent police procedural. He shows a step-by-step investigation in progress and the reader gets so caught up in it that he can't put the book down until he learns how it all turns out. Part of the book is told by the viewpoint of the villain. This is exciting and horrifying at the same time. EAST OF THE ARCH is a fantastic installment in this long running series.
Harriet Klausner
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A FAST PACED , FIRST RATE MUST READ STORY!!!
26. Oktober 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
EAST OF THE ARCH is the third installment in the Joe Keough detective series from master story teller Robert J Randisi. Considering moving on in his career, Joe's mind is changed when he is loaned out by his boss, the mayor of St. Louis, to investigate a serial killing spree that is occuring there. Keough has assigned to him a "task force" consisting of a young Mark Twain quoting dective, Marc Jeter( who I would like to see teamed up with Keough again) and their "girl Friday" Jenny Sykes. The three begin the investigation of a serial killer who is killing pregnant women. Also showing up from Joe's past is Valerie Speck and the boy Brady who were involve in Keough's first case in St. Louis and the IA detectives Mason & Gail who are still out to get Keough any way they can. Add a seperate murder to the mix and once again Randisi weaves a first rate mystery. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND EAST OF THE ARCH and hope there are many more Randisi Joe Keough books coming out.
a very good read
12. Juni 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book by Randisi was a very good read. I enjoyed this book a lot and hope to read more by this author in the future. It was my first book by him and I enjoyed it.
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
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