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Summary: A skillful blend of plot, characters, fantasy, and humor.
Review: Odd but very, very good. Lee Driver skillfully blends a complicated plot with unique characters, supernatural fantasy and humor. The Tyler family are a rich upperclass people who lost a family member, young wife Rachel Tyle, five years ago. One night Robert Tyler, Rachel's husband, receives a phone call from a familiar voice. Can it be Rachel? Chase Dagger, a private detective with a life that you would not believe, finds himself with this bizarre case. Cases with unusual elements require unusual talents and Chase has them at his disposal. He has a scarlet macaw named Einstein who just so happens to have a photographic memory. Sarah, his assistant, has abilities that allow her to go places and hear things in a way no other human can experience. This is an amazing read and totally new to my experience. Yummy!Leann Arndt, Reviewer
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Summary: A slick hit
Review: Recently I read Lee Driver's, The Good Die Twice. This is a terrific mystery whether you enjoy reading mysteries or not. An excellent author is Lee Driver keeping me into the story throughout. The story revolves around Sara Morningsky, a charming Native American girl with divine shape-shifting powers, and Chase Dagger, a very hard-nosed detective. They investigate the murder of supermodel Rachel Tyler. Sara, as a shapeshifted Hawk, witnesses a murder of a young woman. However, by the time she goes and gets Dagger from her apartment, all evidence has disappeared. Later, they are invited to a party at the Tyler house. At the house, Sara sees a picture of Rachel and recognizes her as the one who had been murdered. However, evidence had shown that Rachel passed away five years before while on a family yacht one night. Sara and Dagger are left to investigate what really happened with some help from Skizzy, Padre, Nick Tyler, and Einstein, Dagger's annoying macaw. The author does an excellent job in tying the plot together in the end. Although I do not enjoy reading, this was one of the first books in which I understood what was happening and actually enjoyed the story. Despite the 300 pages, I loved this book and how Lee Driver writes.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: Recently I read Lee Driver's, The Good Die Twice. This is a terrific mystery whether you enjoy reading mysteries or not. An excellent author is Lee Driver keeping me into the story throughout. The story revolves around Sara Morningsky, a charming Native American girl with divine shape-shifting powers, and Chase Dagger, a very hard-nosed detective. They investigate the murder of supermodel Rachel Tyler. Sara, as a shapeshifted Hawk, witnesses a murder of a young woman. However, by the time she goes and gets Dagger from her apartment, all evidence has disappeared. Later, they are invited to a party at the Tyler house. At the house, Sara sees a picture of Rachel and recognizes her as the one who had been murdered. However, evidence had shown that Rachel passed away five years before while on a family yacht one night. Sara and Dagger are left to investigate what really happened with some help from Skizzy, Padre, Nick Tyler, and Einstein, Dagger's annoying macaw. The author does an excellent job in tying the plot together in the end. Although I do not enjoy reading, this was one of the first books in which I understood what was happening and actually enjoyed the story. Despite the 300 pages, I loved this book and how Lee Driver writes.
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Summary: excellent supernatural mystery
Review: Supermodel and wife to a very wealthy individual, Rachel Tyler simply vanishes while on the family yacht. Five years later, a hawk observes two individuals struggling with a woman before they cold bloodedly kill the lady. The hawk returns to the home of Sarah and her roommate Chase Dagger on the nearby reservation. Sarah tells Chase, a private investigator, what the hawk has seen, but by the time they reach the area, all evidence of foul play is gone. Dagger receives an invitation to the Tyler home. He drags a reluctant Sarah with him because he fears dealing with his former fiancee Sheila Tyler. At the house, Sarah notices a portrait of Rachel and recognizes her as the murder victim seen by the hawk. Dagger refuses to acknowledge that this could have happened, but soon evidence leads him to conclude that Rachel just recently died. Sarah and Dagger continue to dig into the Tyler family where murder is considered a good business practice. Chase Dagger is one of the more fascinating characters to grace a detective tale. He is an enigma wrapped inside a perplexing puzzle overlaid by a complex cipher. As Chase's counterpoint, Sarah has otherworldly powers that make her a unique, but brave heroine. The story line is a mystery inside a who-done-it that works because of the interrelationship of the main characters. Fans of Laurel K. Hamilton' wonderful works will adore this tale that will drive them to want more novels from Lee Driver. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Definitely fun to read
Review: The book opens with a hawk flying onto a balcony and then perching on the balcony railing to witness a murder. Guess what - the hawk is the "detective" in this imaginative story. Don't get the wrong idea - this is no animal detective story. Not by a long shot. Reminded me more of James Bond with a fantasy twist. I loved it.
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Summary: Maybe for Younger Readers
Review: The concept, the plot and the characters looked very good. Then I read it. Parts of it were quite good, but like an omelette a few really rotten eggs can ruin the whole thing. An example: a police officer is shot through the chest and thrown in the lake. He knows who did, but doesn't tell his fellow police officers who did it, why he was there or any useful information. Why? Presumably because his friend the private detective hasn't figured out all the details yet. The same set of killers, who were also witnessed at another killing, are spotted at a party. Are they confronted? Are the authorities called? Is backup help from friends called in? No, the heroine simply turns into a hawk so she can eavesdrop better. The same set of killers beat up and torture Chase Dagger. Sara, the shapeshifter, confronts them with a pistol. She shoots the rope off Chase's hands, tosses him the gun and effortlessly kicks the bad guys around. Suddenly they all escape because Chase 'suddenly bent over in pain'. Huh? In the same fight Chase has shot one of them through the shoulder. The wounded party is out digging graves later, commenting something to the effect that "Gee, flesh wounds hurt almost as much as if I were really shot." Eh? I can tolerate holes in the plot, poor characterization, and villains behaving umbelievably. I cannot tolerate the fight scenes. Innocent Sara follows the drunk rich guy into his private bedroom. When she tries to leave she is grabbed. Her response: elbow to stomach, 'high side kick' to chest followed by throwing him over her shoulder. Problems with this: elbow strikes can only be done when extremely close. High kicks, or side kicks, can only be done at far distance. Assuming the kick was possible, the assailant would be pushed back a few inches at least and moving away from Sara. To 'throw him over her shoulder' would require superhuman stength. The fight description reminded me more of a Tom and Jerry cartoon than anything realistic. Despite all this, the basic concept had real possibilities. Several rewrites under a brutal editor could have turned this into something quite good.
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Summary: Excellent concept, terrible execution
Review: The concept, the plot and the characters looked very good. Then I read it. Parts of it were quite good, but like an omelette a few really rotten eggs can ruin the whole thing. An example: a police officer is shot through the chest and thrown in the lake. He knows who did, but doesn't tell his fellow police officers who did it, why he was there or any useful information. Why? Presumably because his friend the private detective hasn't figured out all the details yet. The same set of killers, who were also witnessed at another killing, are spotted at a party. Are they confronted? Are the authorities called? Is backup help from friends called in? No, the heroine simply turns into a hawk so she can eavesdrop better. The same set of killers beat up and torture Chase Dagger. Sara, the shapeshifter, confronts them with a pistol. She shoots the rope off Chase's hands, tosses him the gun and effortlessly kicks the bad guys around. Suddenly they all escape because Chase 'suddenly bent over in pain'. Huh? In the same fight Chase has shot one of them through the shoulder. The wounded party is out digging graves later, commenting something to the effect that "Gee, flesh wounds hurt almost as much as if I were really shot." Eh? I can tolerate holes in the plot, poor characterization, and villains behaving umbelievably. I cannot tolerate the fight scenes. Innocent Sara follows the drunk rich guy into his private bedroom. When she tries to leave she is grabbed. Her response: elbow to stomach, 'high side kick' to chest followed by throwing him over her shoulder. Problems with this: elbow strikes can only be done when extremely close. High kicks, or side kicks, can only be done at far distance. Assuming the kick was possible, the assailant would be pushed back a few inches at least and moving away from Sara. To 'throw him over her shoulder' would require superhuman stength. The fight description reminded me more of a Tom and Jerry cartoon than anything realistic. Despite all this, the basic concept had real possibilities. Several rewrites under a brutal editor could have turned this into something quite good.
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Summary: A Winner
Review: The Good Die Twice is a winner, both in terms of fascinating characters and a rapid-fire, unguessable plot. Chase Dagger is a male PI who has recently taken on a young Native American woman as his associate, although his role with Sara is more that of protector and mentor than business associate. Sara, a shape-shifter who can turn into either a gray hawk or a gray wolf, observes the murder of a woman whose death had already been recorded five years earlier. Intrigued by the anomaly Dagger starts to investigate, and from that moment on, the action never stops. This is a great read for fans of mystery, fantasy, and the occult.
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Summary: WELL WORTH READING
Review: THE GOOD DIE TWICE is the first in a planned Chase Dagger series. Chase Dagger has sent his assistant Sara on a stakeout, and she witnesses a murder but by the time that she gets back with Chase there is no evidence of a murder. Chase knows Sara well enough to know that if she said she saw it, it really happened, so they look around and in the fireplace under a log they find a single earring. Chase is invited to a party the next evening and the party is given by the rich and powerful Robert Tyler, the father of Shelia Tyler, Chases former fiancé, who now refuses to take "no" for an answer and believes that Chase wants no part of her, but Chase decides to go anyway and take Sara as his date. Once there, Sara sees a picture of the blond that she saw murdered just forty-one hours before. When she and Chase start asking around they find out that the blond is Rachel Tyler and she went missing five years earlier when she was thought to have fell overboard. Robert Tyler hires Dagger Investigations to look into his wife's disappearance. Dagger and Sara decide not to tell Robert Tyler what Sara had witnessed the day before. This is a very well spun mystery that has more twists and turns than a roller coaster. Just when you think that you have it all figured out, boom! there goes another bomb off. There are so many great characters in this book. My favorite two are Einstein, a bright red Macaw who has some very colorful language, and he repeats what ever he hears. Einstein loves to sing at the mailman " Mr. Postman Please Mr. Postman ", and then there is Sara, a very special young lady who is Native American and was home schooled by her grand mother Ada Kills Bull. Sara has the talent to "shape-shift " and, according to Native Mythology, it means to shift between human and animal forms, Sara could change into a hawk or gray wolf, allowing Sara to be undercover, up close, and not be noticed. Be prepared for when you start reading this book. You will not be able to put it down. I couldn't.
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