Spiked: An Eddie Bourque Mystery (2003) - Plot & Excerpts
SPIKED – G+Mark Arsenault – 1st bookIn the fading manufacturing city of Lowell, Mass., Eddie Bourque, a political reporter for the shoddy Lowell Empire, looks into the brutal murder of his newspaper beat partner and rival, Danny Nowlin. Bourque suspects the killing is tied to a story Nowlin was working on undercover, but the newspaper’s owners, high up in Lowell’s power structure, discourage Bourque from pursuing his investigation. Although I found it a bit slow in the beginning, the story definitely picked up, the character of Eddie became much more interesting and I found myself involved.
Mark Arsenault writes AMAZING crime fiction, plain and simple. His experience as a journalist brings his similarly-employed protagonists to life, and while they may skim the border of "outright fearless action hero" at times, it's not to an intolerable degree. A wealth of characters and fantastic pacing keep you guessing at "whodunnit" till the end. Bonus points for setting it in Massachusetts. Kind of cool to be familiar enough with Lowell to imagine where all this is happening. The best part about Arsenaults books though-There are no romantic subplots, unnecessary or otherwise. God b l e s s.
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