Book Review: Resolved

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Robert K. Tanenbaum
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Legal Setting   Police Procedural   Thriller
Series: Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi # 15
Atria, Sept 2003, $26.00 343 pp.

His mother and his brother were Satan worshipping pediophiles but Felix Tighe was just a run-of-the-mill psychopath who tortured his wife and tormented before killing a young woman and her child. He was arrested charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. While at New York’s Auburn prison a fight breaks out and he gets injured but not before killing a guard. Now he’s looking at the death penalty but the chief trustee at the infirmary known as the Arab manages to fake his death and sends him to his Arab brethren.

Rashid is using Felix to go where Arabs would be looked on in suspicion (following the events of Sept 11 in Manhattan) and to plant bombs on vehicles used by people who were responsible for sending The Arab to prison. The terrorists’ ultimate goal is to free the Arab using Felix as their mule. Both the Arab and Felix want to kill the entire Karp family because the Chief Assistant District Attorney was the prosecutor responsible for sending them both to prison.

This is the fifteenth episode in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s long running series and it is just as fresh and compelling as the first entry. The story is told from the viewpoint of Karp, his wife, their daughter and Felix so reader know what is going on at all times in the minds of the primary characters. RESOLVED is an exciting legal thriller that the audience will keep on reading until the final page is turned.

Harriet Klausner

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