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In Jon Loomis’s winning follow-up to High Season—named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post—homicide detective Frank Coffin must investigate the murder of one of Cape Cod’s most “popular” women…
“Loomis’s prose is crisp and smart, his characterizations ring true …Reminiscent of Robert B. Parker at his best.”
—Booklist (starred review)
Coffin came back to his hometown of Provincetown, Massachusetts, hoping to put his days of grisly big-city crime-fighting behind. But so far, the quirky beach town has been none too peaceful. Case in point: Beautiful local Kenji Sole—heir to a tremendous fortune—has been found stabbed to death on the floor of her bedroom. In a negligee. And everybody in town has an opinion about who did it…
“A SEXY AND MALICIOUS PIECE OF WORK…The Cape, as Loomis depicts it, may be both the most beautiful and most wacky spot on the Eastern seaboard.”—Toronto Star
Someone very close to the victim is probably responsible. But this was a woman with an active love life. Very active. Since she never cared much about her lovers’ marital status, Frank and his partner Officer Lola Winters have their work cut out for them interviewing all of her lovers—not to mention their jealous wives—to find out who killed the much-sought-after Ms. Sole.
Det. Frank Coffin and his partner, Sgt. Lola Winters, look into the stabbing death of notoriously promiscuous dominatrix Kenji Sole, who had a gift for bringing out a man's "inner jerk," in Loomis's riotous second mystery to feature the Provincetown, Mass., cop (after 2007's High Season). The investigators rattle nearly every skeleton in the official closets of the ultraliberal community as well as a few cages in the state attorney general's office. Between panic attacks and feeling increasingly tuckered out by fervid attempts to get his much younger yoga-instructor lover pregnant, Coffin confronts a number of life's real tragedies-in particular, the wish of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother to die. Such serious concerns lend depth to a black comedy full of raunchy vocabulary and kinky sexuality. Loomis appears to enjoy shock effects too much for their own sake, but he's definitely a writer to watch given his knack for illuminating human nature. (May)
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Constance Heide
reviewed Mating Season (Frank Coffin Series #2) on August 07, 2017
Mating Season (Frank Coffin Series #2)
I really enjoyed this quick, light read. I wasn't expecting a "To Kill a Mockingbird" type of experience. On the positive side, without going over the plot (see others), I think it was fairly realistic. Perhaps a bit exaggerated on the number of partners the victim was running. I grew to like poor Frank Coffin, a cop who can't catch a break and seems to do everything the hard way. There were a lot of quirky elements that made it amusing, like the Chinatown visit and the monkey poo. So the pace was nimble and kept my interest as a vacation read.
On the down side, the journey was better than the destination. My biggest complaint was that it seemed the ending was rushed and Loomis missed a fine opportunity for some quality chapters toward the end. Also, would have liked more depth and time spent on developing Duckworth, he was interesting and could have been so much more. The same with Rudy and a few others. It makes me wonder if there was a page limit for the author.
I'm probably being more critical than I mean to be. Overall, the positive very much outweighs the negative and I would recommend it to a friend, if they are reading for pure fun.
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