Reviews for Copp On Ice, A Joe Copp Thriller

The average rating for Copp On Ice, A Joe Copp Thriller based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-19 00:00:00 Dean Lettera Let me make one thing perfectly clear, the events in this book are totally unrealistic. The idea that any bureaucrat would take, much less get away with, the risk taken by the City Administrator in this novel. And even if such a bureaucrat was willing to take such a risk, I sincerely doubt that he would choose the protagonist of this series, habitually in trouble with the establishment, to be in charge of a modern police department with issues of police corruption. On the other hand, the tale is so fast-paced and the character so well-established in previous books of the series that I was just pulled into the story like flotsam into a whirlpool. I suppose it helped that I knew that the author was now living in West Covina and that I had once lived in a nearby city. The venue for the story was a fictionalized West Covina or Baldwin Park. I could visualize the "no man's land" described between those civic entities and I understood the resentment between municipal officers and the L.A. County Sheriff's Office. So, there were plenty of connections for me that might not be there for anyone else. The extra special bonus portion of the book for me was that it had a fascinating conspiracy with its attendant paranoid participants and investigators within the tendrils of its tricky little plot. This book cannot be recommended to mystery fans who need a hefty dose of realism in their plots. For some of us, though, the flimsy plot serves the same purpose as a diaphanous gown provides to a groom on a honeymoon. It may not be substantial, but it has a certain welcome aesthetic.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-16 00:00:00 Carl Sisler I liked it. These are nice books to listen to while doing something else. I think the way he explains everything at the end rather then me trying to figure out what it all meant after the bad guy/s are captured. He ties it all together. Copp is hired temporarily as Captain of the Police dept to find out why one of the cops were killed and if the whole dept is on the take. Meanwhile more bodies are piling up.