Between you and me, 'NYPD Red 3' is a very unimaginative title. Hell, it almost sounds as if the author gave it a working title as he was writing it and lateron forgot to change it. :-) But I guess it is better than giving a title that has no relation whatsoever with the plot. At least it gives the information that this is the 3rd installment in the NYPD Red series. I read the 2nd offering - the one containing the Hazmat killer - recently but I am yet to read the start of the series so I don't really know what's wrong with detective Kylie McDonald's husband.
So anyways, this one starts when the only son of one of New York's wealthiest - the group that NYPD Red was formed to serve - is kidnapped. The funny thing is that no one reports Hunter Alden junior aka Tripp as missing. The elite force is instead called upon to investigate why Tripp's driver Peter was beheaded. Detectives Zach and Kylie soon realize that all's not well in the paradise and there is more to this than meets the eye. But their efforts to get at the truth are frustrated because of Hunter Alden Senior's influence. The new mayor Muriel Sykes is of help to a limited extent but the detectives realize that if they have to solve the double crime, they need to step on more than a few toes.
Hmmm.....the killer's identity did come as a surprise, and a little bit of shock. But I must say that the killer went to a great length to get at the 100 million dollars. Surely, things would have been a lot easier if he had used just Project Gutenberg to blackmail Hunter rather than orchestrating the kidnapping of his son.
And in the subplot of Cheryl's taking off to help her ex-husband, in my humble opinion, Dr. Gerri got it all wrong as far as Zach is concerned. Zach gets full marks for behaving the way he did in my book. It was a natural reaction and Cheryl the woman, not Cheryl the psychologist, would have behaved much the same way if the shoe were on the other foot. Of course Kylie doesn't come out smelling like roses in this whole episode but then it takes all kinds to make this world, doesn't it?
I liked the novel and might read the original novel of the series just to find out 'where it all began' but if there is any 'NYPD Red 4', I don't think I am going to pick it up in a hurry. The whole plot of the detectives trying to solve the crimes related to rich folks as the paparazzi and politicians breath down their neck is getting too common. :-(
So anyways, this one starts when the only son of one of New York's wealthiest - the group that NYPD Red was formed to serve - is kidnapped. The funny thing is that no one reports Hunter Alden junior aka Tripp as missing. The elite force is instead called upon to investigate why Tripp's driver Peter was beheaded. Detectives Zach and Kylie soon realize that all's not well in the paradise and there is more to this than meets the eye. But their efforts to get at the truth are frustrated because of Hunter Alden Senior's influence. The new mayor Muriel Sykes is of help to a limited extent but the detectives realize that if they have to solve the double crime, they need to step on more than a few toes.
Hmmm.....the killer's identity did come as a surprise, and a little bit of shock. But I must say that the killer went to a great length to get at the 100 million dollars. Surely, things would have been a lot easier if he had used just Project Gutenberg to blackmail Hunter rather than orchestrating the kidnapping of his son.
And in the subplot of Cheryl's taking off to help her ex-husband, in my humble opinion, Dr. Gerri got it all wrong as far as Zach is concerned. Zach gets full marks for behaving the way he did in my book. It was a natural reaction and Cheryl the woman, not Cheryl the psychologist, would have behaved much the same way if the shoe were on the other foot. Of course Kylie doesn't come out smelling like roses in this whole episode but then it takes all kinds to make this world, doesn't it?
I liked the novel and might read the original novel of the series just to find out 'where it all began' but if there is any 'NYPD Red 4', I don't think I am going to pick it up in a hurry. The whole plot of the detectives trying to solve the crimes related to rich folks as the paparazzi and politicians breath down their neck is getting too common. :-(
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