Pick Up Collecting Cooper (Theodore Tate, #2) Articulated By Paul Cleave Available In Paperbound

am now cancelling all of my vacation plans for Christchurch New Zealand, Author Paul Cleave paints a very bleak and scary as hell portrait of a city plagued by killers, crazies and some really crappy weather, This book is so full of serial killers it surely has to be something in the water, Now I am usually ato four star rater reserving those five for special books, Folks this is one heck of a special one, Very fast paced with lots of action and some real great characters this one comes highly recommended to fans of the mystery or thriller genre that like to read about some really bent individuals.
From the international bestselling author of Blood Men comes a gripping new thriller that paints a brutally vivid picture of a killer's mind,

People are disappearing in Christchurch, Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesnt make it to work one day, Emma Green, one of his students, doesnt make it home, When excop Theodore Tate is released from a fourmonth prison stint, hes asked by Greens father to help find Emma, After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him, Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs, Now he has acquired the ultimate collectors iteman actual killer,

Meanwhile, clues keep pulling Tate back to Grover Hills, the mental institution that closed down three years ago, Very bad things happened there, Those who managed to survive would prefer keeping their memories buried, Tate has no choice but to unearth Grover Hills dark past if there is any chance of finding Emma Green and Cooper Riley alive,

For fans of Dennis Lehanes Shutter Island, Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs, and Jeff Lindsays Dexter series, Collecting Cooper is another “relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted, and shot through with a vein of humor thats as dark as hell” Mark Billingham novel by this glimmering new talent in the crime thriller genre.
Gritty but I really like his style of writing, and the only author I read whose setting is in New Zealand, Christchurch in particular, No sorprende, pero entretiene. This was my first read of Paul Cleave amp definitely read more Collecting Cooper is a fast paced thriller which keeps you turning the pages i thought the concept of the story was well done amp the ending was really good dont know why its taken me so long to read this Author.


Highly recommended I have a request, If any resident of Christchurch, New Zealand, ever reads this review, please send me a private message, I'd like to know what residents of that city think of Paul Cleave and his books,

Christchurch is a serial killer's Peyton Place, There are so many killers in Cleave's books and they all mingle here and there, Joe the janitor had a cameo appearance in Cemetery Lake, Melissa from The Cleaner doesn't appear in this book, but we learn a lot more about her, Eddie Hunter, from Blood Men, plays a very small role in this book, And then there's more killers in this book, Because of this, I strongly recommend these books be read in order,

I'm still loving Theodore Tate, He's now excop, exPI, and excon, He's a fantastic investigator. He does what he thinks is right and he's determined to solve any case, His relationship with Detective Carl Schroder is improving in this book, and I like that,

Cleave has two talents, His characters are very well developed and he makes you like them in spite of their actions, In this book, we have Adrian, He's been damaged through no fault of his own, He's a child in a man's body at times, but he also seems kind of smart, I just wanted to hug him, and then I wanted to shake him, We also have Cooper, a professor of psychology and criminology, who is sort of slimy and conniving, After reading books about serial killers, Adrian thinks Cooper is one, And we have Emma Green, She was the driver who Theo hit while he was driving drunk in Cemetery Lake, She's in the background for most of this book, but she's very important, I expect a huge role for her in a future book, but that remains to

be seen,

Cleave's other talent is story development, His stories grab me and pull me right in, His books are not unputdownable, but when you pick one back up, it still grabs and pulls you in, At aboutin with this book, the story becomes a bit preposterous and borders on ridiculous, but you know what I don't care! I'm loving how the story unfolds and all the action and the resolution, all the way to the epilogue.
There's always some sadness mixed in with the happiness,

I can't wait to see what Cleave has up his sleeve for the next book, so it's on to The Laughterhouse, a place I first met in Blood Men.
Entretenido.
Da un giro interesante a mitad del libro, pero por lo demás, bastante previsible, El libro me entretuvo, pero tiene escaso valor literario, La trama se enreda innecesariamente de una manera que no crea tensión y hay detalles que son poco creíbles, Hay comoasesinos en serie, demasiada concentración de población demente para un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Zelanda, El otro error que comete el autor es que cuenta la historia desde dos puntos de vista el del asesino y el del detective y lo hace de manera redundante.
No nos sorprenden ninguno de los descubrimientos del policía porque ya conocemos la información por otra fuente, Supongo que el error no está en la estrategia sino en la ejecución, Seguro que un escritor hábil habría sabido sacarle más jugo a la doble perspectiva, pero en este caso el resultado es redundante, La novela da para pasar en rato en la piscina pero no sorprende, My original sitelinkCollecting Cooper audiobook review and many others can be found at sitelinkAudiobook er,
So I rated sitelinkCemetery Lake, the first Theodore Tate book,stars, Collecting Cooper was even better I need astar rating!
Paul Cleaves black humor is back in the second installment of the Theodore Tate series and I love it.
This one starts with Tates release from prison several months after the events of Cemetery Lake, Tates lawyer Donovan Green is asking him for help to find his daughter Emma who has disappeared, Yeah, this is the girl Tate nearly killed in Cemetery Lake, so her father thinks Tate owes him a favor, At the same time, Detective Schroder asks Tate to take a look at the Melissa X file, Thats the rather sadistic girl who featured in sitelinkThe Cleaner,
So while all of Cleaves books can be read as standalones, the same characters keep turning up in different books, The more of his books I read, the more I appreciate how clever the entire Christchurch Noir Crime series is, But you are definitely left with the feeling that Christchurch is the worlds serial killer city and pretty bleak,
There are several story lines to follow that are skillfully connected and lead to a very satisfying end, There was one major continuity issue though where Tate actually mentioned the name of the person they were after before he could have possibly known it,
Written from multiple perspectives, the listener/reader spends a lot of time inside the mind of a young man with mental health issues, Cleave never preaches but very cleverly raises awareness of a mental health system with serious faults that leaves former patients with a lack of suitable support, Cleave is brilliant at creating characters that are impossible to typify as purely evil, totally innocent orgood, They all have little layers of everything in them and you end up feeling sorry for them one minute and then hating them the next,

Collecting Cooper is a fantastic, fastpaced psychological thriller that is dark and in parts shocking, Cat lovers beware, theres some unpleasant stuff I wish I could have avoided listening to,

The narration by Paul Ansdell was very good again, He was excellent at portraying Adrian, a young man of simple mind, and his normal narration voice is very pleasant to listen to as well, A great fit for Tates first person perspective, There were no issues with the quality of the production,

Im looking forward to the next in the series when it becomes available on audio and hope well see more of Emma as she could turn into quite a kickass heroine.


Highly recommended for fans of witty and dark psychological thrillers!
Audiobook provided for review by the sitelinkaudiobookreviewer, com Fast paced and entertaining, A few nice gory details but not enough for my taste, which may be considered excessive at times,
Book lacks a bit of depth that you otherwise would get from a psychological thriller such as Hannibal,
Overall good fun read, Would recommend to someone into psychological thrillers but doesn't want to think to hard about what they are reading, Once I start one of Paul Cleave's books, you can just write me off for however long it takes me to finish it, This was no exception.

There is something intrinsically creepy about abandoned psychiatric hospitals, where a good part of the action in this book takes place,

Expoliceman Theodore Tate has just been released from prison after serving a short sentence for drink driving causing injury, On his release he is contacted by Schroder, still a cop, and the father of the girl he injured, both requesting his help with different matters,

Schroder is seeking Tate's insight into a case he is working and Green wants him to find his daughter, Emma, after recovering from her injuries, has gone missing seemingly abducted from the parking lot of the café where she is employed, And Green figures that Tate still owes him, for if Tate had not injured her, Emma's life may have taken a whole different direction and she never would have been where she was to be abducted.
So, in a nutshell, it is Tate's fault that she is missing, Unable to fault that logic, Tate reluctantly agrees,

Following up Emma's disappearance, Tate discovers that one of Emma's professors is also missing, Has he been abducted by the same person Or has he abducted Emma and disappeared with her Or is it just random coincidence,

Another couldn't put it down read from Paul Cleave,

Warning: this isin the Theodore Tate series, I strongly recommend you read sitelinkCemetery Lake before Collecting Cooper,

I'm off now to get sitelinkThe Laughterhouse,in the series, I am hooked.

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