Denis Brank

I'm a retired state policeman (30 yrs service) and getting into ebooks. Enjoy good well written cop stories, mysteries, and stuff with new angles and unusual plots. I can't write but appreciate a good book (so I'm not going to be listing my own book here any time in this lifetime! I enjoy reading book reviews when they're helpful but too many times they're bull. I like writing reviews about what I read and try to be honest but if a book stinks I won't write anything. I give any one who even tries to write a book credit and won't trash them.

• January Moon on Dec. 26, 2010
  
  I liked it. The dialogue was realistic and the cops & FBI believable. I thought it slowed down in the middle about the jihad-wannabees but overall it’s a pretty quick read. It held my attention and there were some unexpected surprises. I’m a retired state trooper and liked reading about a state cop working a murder investigation because it’s not just big citiy cops that fight crime. I liked Fred Wiley and every cop knows a jerk like Eggs. Del Carter’s the kind of smart cop good cops respect and the other cops were real too and I’d play it just like Del (go in and tell the feebs later) under the circumstances and yes there’d be hell to pay. Most cop story writers trash the FBI or make them look ridiculous because they know cops don’t like them and cops buy cop stories but Gill was fair and accurate about the feebs. They really do some stuff very good like big sweeping interstate computer fraud so she knew where to put the feebs and make them shine and the raid on the cult was realistic in the usual screw ups that always happen. The autopsy was excellent and a surprise as I never understood FGM before and without beating the reader over the head with it Gill made her points and it was fascinating. The fight with the dog and the freaky bitch was very good and I enjoyed the twists about Kenny and Wiley and the ending was clever and I would read other books by this author. My wife is enjoying it now.