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Driven to Murder (Hardcover)
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The gritty talent that flared in The Fire Watch (1980) and Getting
Away with Murder (1981) only flickers a little in Burke's third
suspense novel: a creaky whodunit that's textured - but not
convincingly - with homicidal mania, government corruption, and
suburban adultery. James Goodfellow, bland accountant, has been
shot dead in his driveway - apparently by wife Georgine, who
promptly (if vaguely) confesses. But Assistant D.A. Jack Meehan
can't quite believe that sincere, sexy Georgine (a childhood chum)
really killed her husband. Furthermore, Meehan becomes convinced
that the murder is somehow linked to two other homicides: the
mob-style killing of a local burglar; and the murder of an elderly
private-eye who was investigating a warranty scare at the town's
big VW dealership. Then. as the terrified Georgine begins to tell
Meehan some of the real story, his suspicions focus on the two
powers-that-be at the VW dealership - one of whom is Georgine's
demonic lover, a psycho-killer who's utterly cool and ruthless. And
there'll be several more deaths - and a melodramatic chase/siege
finale - before the supervillain is definitively, unsurprisingly,
unmasked. Assistant D.A. Meehan - lusting after Georgine but loving
his wife, refusing to go along with a tidy cover-up - is a
streetwise, semi-appealing hero. Many of the vignettes along the
way, from underworld hangouts to courthouse corridors, are tautly
atmospheric. But Burke's stark, tough style often becomes
self-consciously mannered here. (Especially annoying: dialogue
delivered in sentence fragments.) And the basic plot depends on an
unpersuasive psycho, a dubious sexual obsession, and - to keep the
killer's identity a Secret - too many feeble narrative tricks.
(Kirkus Reviews)
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