Double Take: FBI Thriller
by Catherine Coulter
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Author: Catherine CoulterEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2007-06-12
ISBN: 051514469X
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Putnam's Sons
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Book Review: Good beach book
Summary: 3 Stars
Probably the main thing with Catherine Coulter is she understands Vica's `keep moving' rule. This basically says that you can get away with a lot of crap as long as you keep the action coming and keep the plot moving. Catherine Coulter gets away with a lot of crap.
This book is set in San Francisco (where I live -- I read and review detective/noir/crime novels set in San Francisco) and Coulter lives just North across the Golden Gate Bridge in Mill Valley, but the descriptions of San Francisco seem oddly stilted, like they were done based on reading a guide book instead of on actually spending time in the city. For example: two rich Pacific Heights swells are going to meet for dinner on Pier 39, in the heart of tourist kitsch? I just can't see it.
Despite a serious WTF element to the book (one of the law enforcement people begins to manifest psychic abilities but Coulter does absolutely nothing with this, so why bother to put it in the plot?), Coulter keeps things moving briskly and ties up all the plot lines at the end, though it takes some ridiculous coincidences to do so. That is much more than most movies seem to be able to do these days and there's something to be said for being kept in suspense by a complex, if implausible, plot rather than figuring out a routine murder plot in the first five minutes. So you have to give Catherine props and this style has served her well. Call it summer reading.
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