Cold Blooded [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert J. Randisi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2005

NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen has his hands full with a very bizarre case. A series of dead bodies have been found, all frozenkilled by various methods, but disposed of in the same manner. Just a coincidence, or is there a serial killer at work? Things heat up when McQueen is sent to investigate a body found in the rubble of a fire and meets FDNY Fire Marshal Mason Willis. Willis is investigating it as an arson, but the medical examiners report makes it obvious that this is a case for McQueen. McQueen and Willis have no choice but to work together. Will even the combined efforts of the NYPD and the FDNY be able to stop the killeror killers?

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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From Publishers Weekly

Last seen in Randisi's The Sixth Phase (1999), NYPD Det. Sgt. Dennis McQueen, a cynical veteran whose passion for detective work exceeds his mastery of departmental politics, gets a new partner who's as much a standard type as himself—Det. Bailey Summers, who labors to survive and advance in a sexist profession while continually fending off those who just want to sleep with her. When a frozen body is discovered off Coney Island by the local polar bears club, the duo connect the murder with insurance fraud and arson in the person of the dead man's sister, a femme fatale with designs on McQueen. After other frozen corpses turn up, it becomes clear a serial killer is on the loose. The serial murderer's thin motivation and the detective pair's identifying him early on undercut both the credibility and the suspense, but those looking for a quick, comfortable read will doubtless find this diverting.
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (November 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843955740
• ISBN-13: 978-0843955743
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,144,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Randisi killer is on the loose, June 4, 2007

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Blooded (Mass Market Paperback)

I got hooked on Robert J. Randisi's writing style when I reviewed the first of his Rat Pack series, Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime. So that meant that I needed to read everything he's written that's still in print. All but one of his titles at my local library were checked out, so I grabbed Cold Blooded before anyone else could snag it.

Cold Blooded features another Randisi-series protagonist, NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen. When the first stiff, dead AND frozen, washes up on a Brooklyn beach, McQueen and his new partner, Detective Bailey Sommers, think it's odd, but it's just another murder in the city that never sleeps. McQueen's Lieutenant ships the case out of McQueen's hands and tries to convince McQueen to focus on breaking in Sommers who is new to the district and homicide.

McQueen reluctantly lets the case go, but when another and another pop up with the same MO, McQueen is sure that there is a serial killer loose in the borough. With warm weather, the body count dwindles and then picks up again when winter strikes, and it's as cold outside as the bodies that float.

In the last third of Cold Blooded, Randisi adds Owen Feinstein's point and view and lets the reader in on the mind of a murderer. The scene illustrating Feinstein's cruelty (scalding a small child's arms) is horrifying.

While finding the killer is center stage, Cold Blooded also deals with office politics, sexual harassment, and the need to follow your gut.

It was an easy read, however I was appalled at the number of typos in the text. I guess Cold Blooded is a testimony that publisher's need to re-hire proof readers.

Armchair Interviews says: If you like Randisi's other writing, you'll also like this book.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I basically love anything by this author, November 4, 2005

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Tina "Tina" (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Blooded (Mass Market Paperback)

Randisi has done it again.

He has managed to write a police thriller that will keep you on your toes and make you feel as though the book should never end.

Although I thought that I had figured out the ending, it turns out that there are a few twists and turns in this one that I hadn't counted on.

Buy this book and enjoy an honest to goodness thriller. I have been really missing those lately.