Arch Angels: A Joe Keough Mystery

This is a great book I wrote a review on it but I wrote it on another page. Why you may ask? Well because I purchased this book and many other Joe Keough mysteries and I absolutly love them but I did not realize that when I purchased this book that it was the same as another book I had already purchased. This book in it's softback form is called Blood of Angels. I read that one and I loved it! Just like all the other Randisi's that I have read but nothing I had researched on the series had prepared me to expect that the hardback and the softback would have two different names. This is just a heads up for anyone who may be preparing to purchase the whole Joe Keough mystery series. I would strongly recommend all of them. I love the character and all the things happen to him while he trying to find a serial killer.

Don't walk but run out and get this detective book. Rich character development and a new interesting twist to the serial murderer genre, I highly recommend Randisi's new book. Each member of my family, who I am certain have the "detective story gene sequence" in their DNA, loved Bob's book! A read you will not regret!

So far the victims are all between the ages of eight and ten. The three strangled in St. Louis were female: in Chicago three boys were murdered in the same manner. Every couple of days a killing occurs. The police in both cities remain baffled over whether there is one culprit, two in tandem, or an originator and a copy cat as the I-55 serial killings of these little angels leave law enforcement officials feeling helpless and distraught.Federal Service Killer Task Force Detective Joe Keough flies to St. Louis while his partner Harriet Connors travels to Chicago to help with the inquiries. The local cops are irate that these superstar outsider hired guns are perching in their territory, but that does not stop Joe and Harriet from taking over much of the investigations. Soon the DC based duo finds twin suspects, but are they the "divine" driven killers or is there something even more diabolical behind the serial murders of the angelic children?Though Joe and Harriet are an interesting duo whose teamwork makes this serial killer investigation work as the latest of what seems like the zillionth serial killer novel offers quite a stretch of a solution to the murders. The story line moves at a leisurely pace more suited to a cozy belying that a killing machine or two is preying on the preadolescent populace. The territoriality of the local police seems genuine though one would hope that they would welcome outside expertise. ARCH ANGELS is a solid tale, but the climax and the feel that they have all the time in the world to stop the culprit(s) takes away from the latest Keogh tale.Harriet Klausner