Moon Music by Faye Kellerman
Moon Music by Faye Kellerman
In Moon Music Faye Kellerman turns her attention from the streets of Los
Angeles, where her previous novels were set, to the casinos of Las
Vegas. A mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert and
Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe sets out to determine who could have
committed the murder and the brutal desecration that followed. His team of
investigators include the tall and lusty Steve Jensen, novice Patricia
Deluca, and medical examiner Rukmani Kalil. The relations between the
four are complex and add depth to this tale of deadly dealings: Poe carries
a torch for Jensens mentally troubled wife and knows of his colleagues
philandering; Kalil and Poe are engaged in an off-again, on-again affair.
Although collectively they feel as though they are making progress in the
case, another similarly mutilated corpse is found within a matter of weeks,
turning the mystery from that of a peculiarly brutal murder in the singular
to the search for a serial killer. Its a tight, tense read. Kellerman engages
the reader with her carefully wrought characters and with her sense of
place. Las Vegas not only sets the stage for the story but is central to it.
The seeds of the crime were planted in its small town past as a nuclear
test sight and only reach their fruition in the gambling and selling of sex
and drugs in the present. Kellerman ties it all together beautifully, with
extraordinary hints of Native American mysticism and government
conspiracies. In anothers hands, such flights of fancy would verge on the
ridiculous, but Kellerman manages to keep her fantastic plots well under
control. For those with a strong stomach and an imaginative streak, Moon
Music is a captivating thriller. --K.A. Crouch
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