An FBI
procedural with a wacky cast of special special agents, aka the Patterns and
Recognition (PAR) unit. If you are familiar with Nick Herron’s Slow Horses
you will recognize the trope – an assortment of brilliant, but socially flawed
investigators who are shunned by the bureaucracy. As in any good who-done-it, the
protagonist, Gardner Camden, is embroiled in an odd but believable murder
investigation. A killer staged his death in a fire, fooling the agent, only to
be murdered years later in a different state. That would seem to be enough intrigue
to stitch together a thriller – wrong.
More murders ensue and the plot thickens to include more vigilante style
murders. Short chapters make the read
zoom, but the escalating complexity eliminates any sense of realism. I was
doubly confused as I was alternating this read with the TV series London
Kills, an equally convoluted procedural.
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