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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
"The Perfect Death", a highly well-written police procedural mystery, features Jacksonville, Florida, police detective John Stallings who investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl. For Stallings, separated from his wife and missing his two remaining children, this case reminds him of when his own daughter, Jeanie, went missing three years ago, and his own personal life begins to unravel. With his partner, Patty Levine, Stallings begins to follow the trail of a serial killer. Patty is involved romantically with another detective, Tony Mazzetti, who is following leads of his own into the construction world and ex-convicts. Patty worries about their relationship and her own secret addiction to pain-killing drugs and whether she will be blamed for drugs missing from stored police evidence. The actual killer continues his violent spree of romancing and then killing innocent victims, feeding his need to catch their gentle, final breath in one of his handblown vases before he breathes his last. Will Stallings and Patty catch this psychopath before he strangles another
pretty young woman. And was Stallings' daughter one of his victims?
Author James Andrus has created a fascinating police procedural series that will leave readers wanting more. His characters are well-created, flawed in human ways, and totally believable. "The Perfect Death"'s plot follows this way and that to its conclusion as all good crime novels should. That the author is a career law-enforcement officer who has been involved in real cases shows clearly in "The Perfect Death" because the story reveals real police officers who deal with real problems in their own lives as well as at work. The minor characters are not black and white bad guys, but believable persons, and the real "bad guy" is a truly disturbed personality that could only be created by a writer who knows crime cases and law enforcement inside and out. "The Perfect Death" is a must read for all mystery lovers!
