Soul Patch is the most troubling book in the Moe Prager series. Prager investigates the death of a cop important in his past. Meanwhile Prager’s marriage is on the rocks. I found the subplot of Moe and Katy’s relationship a big yawn. More troubling is the fact that we know what’s going to happen to Moe and Katy because Reed Farrel Coleman already told us in the first Moe Prager book, Walking the Perfect Square. So there’s no suspense there. And it takes not one, but two incredible coincidences for Prager to solve this obvious mystery.
Empty Ever After (aka, The Inconvenient Child) is the most outlandish and unbelievable Moe Prager case so far. Someone is harassing Prager and his wife, Katy, by desecrating the graves of Katy’s father and her brother. But the grave desecrations are just the beginning. Katy hears from her dead brother Patrick and freaks out. Prager doesn’t believe in ghosts so he does what he does best: investigates. What he finds is a crazy, contorted scheme of revenge along with outlaw bikers and a meth lab. If you decide to read the Moe Prager series, read them in order because Reed Farrel Coleman constantly throws in fistfuls of spoilers about the previous books. GRADE: C+ (for both books).
You are a reading machine, knocking this series off in a week. If I don’t like one book in a series, I seldom keep going. Well, never now– even if I do!
Well, Patti, I had all the Moe Prager books and that little thing called momentum. They are fast reads. Sorry about the Red Wings.
Patti, George never lets that stop him, even if it’s a series of 3 science fiction books 850 pages long each and he hates them!
What a guy.
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Jeff, you remembered me slogging through those deadly, dull George R. R. Martin tomes! I’m nothing if not dogged.
Yes, another black day in Detroit-weather included. But they say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or are we dead?
I was astonished to hear that the last time a visiting team won Game Seven in the Stanley Cup Finals was in 1971. Montreal did it.
I had a lukewarm reaction to WALKING THE PERFECT SQUARE so I didn’t buy any more of the books. At the time, it seemed my reaction was running counter to most reviews I’d read. Since then I’ve decided some of those reviewers liked the book because they liked the author. Now that I’ve read the reviews here, I’m glad I didn’t give the series any further book bucks.
Hockey? Pfui. How about those Lakers?
Once I start something, I like to finish it. I had all the Moe Prager books so once I got rolling on reading them, the pages turned quickly. I’m sure other readers like Maureen Corrigan loved the series a lot more than I did. Jeff Meyerson astutely picked the best book in the series: THE JAMES DEANS.