'The Final Detail' By Harlan Coben

Not sure why I picked up another 'Bolitarian' novel in such quick succession to the previous two I just finished. They are better when spread out and interspersed amidst heavier pieces of literature.

The book opens to a scene set in the Caribbean on a nearly uninhabited island. Myron Bolitar has been avoiding his grief by throwing himself into a tryst with a sexy CNN anchor who equally needed a distraction. He is called back to real life when Win appears on a yacht and calmly explains that his return is necessary. His new partner Esperanza Diaz is being investigated as a suspect in the murder of one of his oldest clients, a newly signed and recently recovered drug addict Yankee pitcher.

As usual the plot winds and twists involving more and more characters and revealing years old cover-ups involving our protagonists. When the dust settles, Myron learns of the gravity of situations he helped others out of years ago and helps others as much as possible including getting is best friend cleared.

Too much Bolitar. I am now reading David Copperfield, thank goodness.

'One False Move' Harlan Coben

In this, a very typical Coben 'Bolitar' novel, our star athelete is WNBA equivalent star Debra Slaughter. Her father is found murdered and she is a suspect. As the plot thickens we meet the powerful Polititian who seems to have been involved in some undiscernable way. Did he kill Debra's father? Did he kill Debra's mother who has been missing for nearly 20 years and who's absence, curiously, coincides closely with the death of his wife? Where does it all end?

The real difference in this novel is that Myron starts the novel with Jessica, his always present heartthrob but ends it breaking up with her as he has fallen in love with Debra.

When it's all said and done, everyone is dead including the highly unlikely murderer. Myron is at the end of his rope and is completely heart-broken at the culmination of all the drama.

Good enough read but I need something with more substance soon.

'Deal Breaker' by Harlan Coben

This was my 3rd of 4th venture into 'Bolitarism'. It was what I needed after reading 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atonement' and I went on a tear of 3 Myron Bolitar books. This was the first and, unless I'm mistaken, is the first of the series.

Whilst being introduced to all regular characters and getting a bit of back story we meet the first big client, Christian Steele. He finds himself in an investigation searching for the reason for his ex-fiance's disappearance. Myron, as per usual, investigates, gets too deep, ignores peoples' attempts at intimidation, nearly gets killed, solves the crime and drops dozens of one-liners regardless of the urgency inherent in the situation. This was fluffy but still gave me a good old fashioned 'whodoneit' to ease out of the serious dramas.

I get the impression that each Bolitar I read will have some different culprit and some more and more complicated plots.

Worth reading.