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Red Cat (John March Mysteries)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780307263162
ISBN: 0307263169
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: February 06, 2007
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Studio: Knopf
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Editorial Review:Black Maps (“A stunner, a great debut roaring out of the gate”—Newsday) . . . Death’s Little Helpers (“Breaks new ground in detective fiction”—The Washington Post) . . . and now Red Cat, the third riveting installment in Peter Spiegelman’s thrilling series of novels featuring the brooding New York City private investigator John March.With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, March has always been the black sheep of his staid merchant-banking family. Which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother David.David is desperate and deeply scared, and with good reason: a woman he met on the Internet, and then for several torrid sexual encounters, is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren, but she seems to know everything about him—and she’s threatening to tell all to his wife and his colleagues. His marriage, his career, and his reputation at stake, David wants John to find this woman and warn her off. Reeling from these revelations, John begins the search for Wren, and what he discovers both alarms and fascinates him. Part actress, part playwright, part performance-artist and noir pornographer, Wren is a powerfully compelling mystery—though no more so, John discovers, than his own brother.But when a body surfaces in the East River, March suddenly finds he’s no longer searching for a stalker. Now he’s hunting a killer—and following a trail that leads ever closer to David’s door. . . .
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Family Affair
This is the third John March mystery after the debut, Black Maps, a very good book and Death's Little Helpers, which was not. Red Cat combines what worked in this author's first novel and somewhat minimizes what didn't in the second providing an entertaining but average read.
Our protagonist is all but estranged from his wealthy NY banking family working on his own as PI. So imagine his surprise when his brother comes calling with a very delicate adultery problem which turns into a ... Read More
Rating:  - Great book!
I'm from Brazil and I read this book a few months ago while I was in the USA. I loved it. I also read Black Maps and Death's Little Helpers. My boyfriend brought them to me. I had to have these books :). I do recommend it.
Rating: - Red Cat - Peter Spiegelman
PI John March gets an unexpected phone call from his brother, he sounds quite desperate asking for a secret meet, very unusual to hear from any of his siblings John agrees. David March lays it down straight or as straight as he believes he can be, prim in his every day life and very judgmental of others in public he suddenly drops the bomb shell, his been having sexual encounters with women arranged anonymously over the internet, but this time the contact has turned nasty she's got hold of all David's ... Read More
Rating: - a solid gum-shoe mystery
What makes Red Cat so enjoyable to read is that Spiegelman's plotting is just so well done. As you follow March, a private eye, and as he slowly uncovers depths of a mystery, you really get dragged into the story. Primarily, in my opinion, this is because the evidence uncovered by March comes forth through such great effort. I really enjoyed this aspect because in most books the clues fall into protagonists laps. Here however small bits of evidence are brutally carved from New Yorks city streets. This ... Read More
Rating: - Good plot, a bit tired of protagonist
I enjoyed the first John March book, Black Maps, very much. I don't think I finished the second. This one has a very good plot and good detective work by March, which kept me reading.
However, his "tics" are getting to be a drag. He doesn't drink, enjoy food, have interesting hobbies or have any close relationships. A woman, Clare, semi-lives with him in this book, but I can't imagine that anyone would put up with him even for world class sex, and I can't imagine how someone as depressed ... Read More
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