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Deadbeat

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This mystery has been described as a hard-boiled thriller in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. It begins with a woman named Lisa Jones hiring a private detective, Frank Taylor, to find her brother, Paul White, who Lisa says has been missing for two weeks. Lisa doesn't believe Paul has just gone off by himself without telling anyone, even though she says he's been known to do this kind of thing before. Lisa believes something has happened to her brother, and she wants Frank Taylor to help her find him. Frank's instinct tells him that Lisa's story may not be completely factual, but he does decide to look into the case and see where it leads him. Frank has been working for a credit company doing skip traces and fraud investigations. This does not necessarily prepare him for the twists and turns he runs into while investigating Lisa's case. And that is exactly what makes this mystery good reading. I enjoyed getting to know Frank Taylor through this story as much as I enjoyed trying to untagle the lies and deceit Frank plows through while trying to uncover the whereabouts of Paul White. If I had to make a comparison between Martin's writing and that of someone else's books, I would say that DEADBEAT resembles the kind of storytelling Gar Anthony Haywood does in his Aaron Gunner series. I hope Martin intends to continue with Frank Taylor in similar detective whodunits.