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somber and serious than his others, A depressing love triangle adds confusion, not the nuance I think the author may have wanted, Typical bad guys shooting people, This time the main character is a cop, Hes killed someone in the line of duty and the victims brother kidnaps the cops brother for revenge.
You know who the true bad guy is all along just not how the pieces connect and you cheer at the end.
This was a book club pick and first time Id read anything by David Rosenfelt, Two thumbs up! Although is started a bit slow, once the kidnapping happened, the ticking time clock was established, and the tension increased tenfold.


Basic premise if to refresh my memory, if anything Judge who is days away from being confirmed onto the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is murdered.
The local detectives, along with the FBI are investigating, When an anonymous call comes into the local PD, it sets off a chain of events that will include more murder and a coverup.
A drug addict, Steven Gallagher, is implicated in the murder, but his brother Chris, knows Steven is many things but a killer is not one of them.
To ensure Steven is proven innocent, Chris takes his own form of justice and the lives of the Somers brothers and the Gallagher brothers become intertwined.
Oh yea, theres political intrigue, Its this political greed that lit the fuse that finally designates the bomb, Oh my. so good.

The short chapters, the multiple points of views, and the puzzle of where everyone and everything fit had me on the edge of my seat.
Theres a death towards the end that really surprised me and then I had to keep reading as I hadnt expected the story to take this particular twist.


Yep, it was good!

,but I will round up because the story was alright,

This is my second David Rosenfelt book, and I guess I'm not a fan, I struggled through this book and through the last one as well, I did the audio on this, I didn't like the reader so that may have contributed to the dislike, but I can't pin it all on him.


His stories are clean and not graphic, so that is something I appreciate, I guess my biggest complaints are dialog, character development and predictability, There are no surprises in any of those three things, Nothing new. Everyone is always on their best behavior and always tries to say the right thing, It was like a job interview, New Jersey police officer Luke Somers kills Steven Gallagher onduty, Gallagher was believed to have stabbed to death a Judge, And when Somers hunts down and approaches Gallagher, Gallagher raises a gun and Somers shoots him, Boom! Somers is a hero, A hero to everyone but Stevens brother Chris, Chris kidnaps Lukes bother and tells Luke that his brother will die unless Luke finds the real killer of the Judge.
Luke is pretty sure he did find the real killer: Steven, but what can he do As he goes through the motions to satisfy Chris,

Luke soon finds himself involved in something dark and much larger than any of them.
Another nailbiter plot that keeps one reading/listening, I didn't like this as well as his Andy Carpenter books for a couple of reasons, The first was the reader, sitelinkJeff Steitzer isn't sitelinkGrover Gardner, the guy that read the entire AC series, They have a very similar, pleasant voice for most, but Steitzer tends to emphasize words that I wouldn't, so it's discordant for me.
Worse, Rosenfelt tends to be somewhat repetitious about certain points, so Steitzer's emphasis makes the repetitions stand out even more.
Not good. Worst of all, his other voices suck bad or tough guys all have a bass whisper, women squeak.
Ugh. Still, it wasn't that bad overall, just in comparison to the wonderful job that Gardner does,

I only gave thisfor the story, too, Rosenfelt doesn't do real tough guys very well, although they're fine as secondary characters such as Marcus in the Andy Carpenter series.
In this case, the hero is a State Trooper amp the other main player is a Recon Marine amp Rosenfelt never made them feel real amp that didn't do the main plot twist any good.
This was quite a twisty tale with a lot of mystery amp drama, plus more murders than then entire Andy Carpenter series combined, I think.
They almost became redundant amp lost their horror, Overall, the twists were great as were the motivations,

Another ding was the computer stuff, I do this for a living so several points were just ridiculous, but I'll only list two.

If the computer had opened ONLY to an email client, it would have been a stronger story.
Allowing web access to email leaves lots of holes, especially on the OS side, Explaining them away would have taken far too long, been too convoluted, amp still not covered everything.
Not explaining them was even worse for me, though, At least the tech should have written up some things to try, but she never did,
Manually comparing printed lists was ridiculous, Today, I print them to a text or CSV file, dump them into a spread sheet, sort, amp compare with a VBA macro I wrote over a decade ago amp adjust to the data.
Or I dump them into an MS Access database amp run a query, depending on what else I want.
It was also one of the first programs I learned to write in several programming languages back in the early's.
I ran them in DOS then, but the method is spelled out in sitelinkThe C Programming Language by Kernighan amp Ritchie written back in the's, before DOS.
IOW, it's a typical issue that computer people deal with often,

So, overall I wasn't thrilled, Some of this was a let down, but it just wasn't a great story, Still, it wasn't a waste of time, It had its moments amp was interesting, even engaging at times, I love mysteries and really good writers and I especially love really good writers who write mysteries.
Airtight was the first of David Rosenfelt's books that I've read, and it was so well done that I can't imagine any sort of slippage in his other books, which means I've got a whole lot of fun ahead of me.


Airtight is smart and inevitable without being showoffy or obvious,
And real people are witty and ironic and sarcastic and tender in just the way that Rosenfelt writes them.


That is all, Luke is a police officer in New Jersey, When a judge is murdered, an anonymous tip leads Luke to Steven Gallagher's, When Luke goes to investigate, Steven pulls a gun on Luke and Luke defends himself and shoots Luke.
Evidence is found in Steven's apartment confirming that he did indeed murder the judge,

When Chris, Steven's military brother finds out that his brother had been suspected of killing the judge, he doesn't believe it.
And he's not too happy to find out that a police officer had killed his brother, Chris kidnaps Bryan, Luke's brother, and imprisons him in a room that only has enough air for seven days.
He then tells Luke that he has seven days to find the real killer of the judge of his brother will die.


Luke feels bad about shooting Steven but feels justified in doing it and believes Steven was guilty.
In order to free his brother, he has to come up with a couple other possibilities, . . and as he does so, he comes to believe that Steven didn't kill the judge after all.
Then it becomes a race of time to find out who did so he brother will live.


I've read many books by this author, mostly his Andy Carpenter series which I enjoy, and this is a stand alone.
I like the writing style and it is written in first person perspective in Luke's voice and third person perspective when the focus is on others.
I liked this story and there was any number of people who could have been the real killer.


Blog review post: sitelink teenaintoronto. com Even with the dogs and the witty banter of Andy Carpenter, David Rosenfelt still writes an entertaining book.
The new character is a caring but somewhat emotionally crippled officer Luke Somers, He may not be good at showing his emotions but he has a passion for justice and a troubled relationship with his brother and his sister in law that he needs to resolve in order to move on with his life.
The plot revolves around another no nonsense man who is also seeking justice for the brother he loves.
Steven Gallagher is a soldier with a murky special ops past, When Luke confronts Steven's brother, who has been accused of murdering a local judge, he is forced to shoot him in self defense.
Steven then kidnaps Luke's brother in order to force him to investigate the murder and clear his brother's name.
Like other Rosenfelt books, the truth unwinds with several red herrings and a cast of characters which include a loyal and quirky side kick.
David Rosenfelt novels are always a good bet and I look forward to additional procedurals featuring officer Gallagher in the future.
The only thing that could make him more appealing would be a dog, . . This was bare bones to the point where it almost felt like an outline someone would go back and fill in.
I liked the fact that it moved quickly, and the plot was very topical and timely, in a rippedfromtheheadlines sort of way, but there wasn't a whole lot there to make me give a shit about what happened to any of these characters.
Note that I don't read a lot of these kinds of books, and I've yet to find very many of them I really like.
The last crime novel I read was Richard Price's the Whites, which I kinda liked, and before that, Don Winslow's Power of the Dog, which I absolutely loved.
The terrific start pulled this from a two to a three star, The characters were flat. I didn't like the dialogue, The sub plots were poor, I didn't even like the reader, His emphasis was over kill, A judge about to rule on an important environmental case is murdered in his driveway and tips and clues all lead police to the home of downandout drug addict Stephen Gallagher.
Not really believing Stephen is guilty, but feeling he may know something police pay him a visit and are greeted by the suspect pointing a gun.
Detective Luke Somers wastes not time recognizing the fact that an unstable individual is pointing a gun at him threatening to shoot and pulls his trigger first.
While the rest of the world considers it a justified reaction to the situation, exblack ops Chris Gallagher, Stephens brother has a different opinion.
Living by his an eye for an eye credo he subsequently kidnaps Lukes brother to force Luke to reopen the investigation in order to prove his brother innocent.
Keeping Lukes brother in an AIRTIGHT room with a sevenday supply of oxygen keeps the investigation on track and this story moving along at a satisfactory clip.


Its a mystery/thriller so as usual the reader must suspend reality for a little bit, but overall Mr.
Rosenfelt keeps the action within reasonable bounds, The substory is about fracking and its impact on the environment the case the judge was going to rule on so I learned a little bit about a term I had heard but did not know much about.
Overall it was a good read,
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