Whisper Death - Hardcover

Reynolds, John Lawrence

3.92

13 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670836699 ISBN 13: 9780670836697

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1992

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Featured in a third intricate mystery, detective Joe McGuire and his bedridden companion, Ollie Schantz, search for a seemingly mild-mannered postal worker wanted by both the FBI and the rich, sexy Glynnis Vargas.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Joe McGuire returns to the Boston PD from a leave of absence, is matched up as partner with his ex-lover's new boyfriend, and is sent off to Palm Springs to escort a murderer home. Except that the case doesn't make sense: every time McGuire's ex-partner, the paralyzed Ollie, feeds the names into his super computer, he's refused access--national security. In Palm Springs, the murderer is then murdered; McGuire's partner is seriously wounded; and someone is whispering weird messages to him in his motel room. Plus: a gorgeous, stupendously wealthy widow seduces McGuire, sort of, while the feds tail him, snipe at him, and abduct him to a secret Nevada nuclear-testing ground, where they try to get him off their case. Meanwhile, the mysterious widow departs, the loony whisperer inveigles McGuire to his hideaway, and a nuclear bomb that nobody wants to admit was stolen is detonated. Eventually, McGuire patches together the whole story of who stole it--but not in time: the last coverup is in place, which means McGuire is on the run, maybe forever, because he Knows Too Much. The plot takes too long to unwind, the characters are cookie- cutter clich‚, and Canadian award-winner Reynolds (The Man Who Murdered God, And Leave Her Lay Dying) disappoints. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Finally bored with his unofficial sabbatical tending bar in the Bahamas, disaffected police detective Joe McGuire returns to Boston to retrieve his shield. He's quickly saddled with the job of extraditing Bunker Crawford, a post office employee who killed a postal inspector and fled to Palm Springs. Oddly, there's no file on Crawford and every question McGuire asks meets with federal disinformation. When his baby-faced temporary partner--the new lover of McGuire's old inamorata--is shot and Crawford assassinated, McGuire pushes all the harder, stirring up a hornet's nest of federal agents in the California desert. Reynolds ( The Man Who Murdered God ) is smack on the money with characters like Boston police captain Fat Eddy Vance, an oily buffoon, and McGuire's bedridden ex-partner, Ollie Schantz, a sharp mind in a broken body. But he obscures these bright sparks with a creaky government conspiracy plot and sophomoric dialogue between McGuire and a rich, flagrantly gorgeous widow, whose motives, meant to be mysterious, are obvious. Added to these false notes is a desert hermit spouting courtly prose who knows Crawford's secrets.
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