JONATHON KING
A KILLING NIGHT
Dutton
Pub. Date: March 28, 2005
ISBN: 0-525-94865-1

Female bartenders in South Florida are disappearing left and right. Police detective Sherry Richards has a suspect: Colin O’Shea. But no one in the department will back her crusade. No bodies, no evidence…no crime, they tell her. Enter Max Freeman, a P.I. who lives in an Everglades shack and works for a lawyer with a bad stutter. Sherry recruits her onetime beau because he has a link to O’Shea. They were once fellow cops in Philadelphia. But Freeman has another connection to the freewheeling O’Shea—the guy saved Freeman from getting pumped full of lead one night. What’s a private dick to do? Get to the truth. And that’s just what Freeman does—with a side trip to the life he left behind in the City of Brotherly Love, where his ex-wife is now a lieutenant in the Internal Affairs Department. Torn between loyalty to his friend and his old lover, and between the past and present, Freeman has to navigate waters more dangerous than an Everglades swamp.

Jonathon King’s A KILLING NIGHT, the fourth Max Freeman novel, is a thoughtful, engrossing mystery. The story is rich in detail and keeps your pulse pounding as it alternates between Freeman’s first person narration and the third person chronicles of the killer at large. Recommended for any fan of P.I. literature.