ROMANCE

The Guise of Another

by Allen Eskens
Seventh Street: Prometheus. Oct. 2015. 272p. ISBN 9781633880764. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781633880771. MYS
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Alexander Rupert's life is a mess. Indicted by a grand jury and suspected of theft, the disgraced detective has been relegated to the basement fraud division. His wife is cheating on him, and it seems as if nothing will ever go his way. And then Alexander catches a stolen identity case in which a man killed in a car accident turns out to be an impostor. Alexander's instincts immediately tell him there's more to the case than meets the eye, and, before long, he is swept into an investigation involving murder, blackmail, and one of the world's most ruthless assassins.
VERDICT Readers will be hooked on the probe into the mysterious dead man from the opening chapter. The investigation and clues unfold quickly, and the story reads satisfyingly well. Unfortunately, Eskens (The Life We Bury) gets bogged down in backstory details about hit man Drago Basta, and the storytelling loses momentum. Fans of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch or Lisa Gardner's Detective D.D. Warren series will likely eat this one up.
Reviewed by Vicki Briner, Westminster, CO , Oct 02, 2015
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