Book Review- Suspect by Robert Crais

Suspect by Robert Crais

 

 



Robert Crais has created a new vision in crime drama fiction. In this book we meet Maggie, a beautiful 85 pound German Shepherd. She was a patrol dog with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan until a bomber and snipers kill her handler and leave her too badly wounded to continue as a Marine.

 

We also meet Scott, an LAPD officer scarred and suffering  post traumatic stress after he is shot and his partner are wounded in a bizarre ambush in a poor and run down part of Los Angeles.

 

Scott, attempting to return to active duty in the LAPD joins the K9 unit. There he falls under the spell of Maggie a dog who seems so destroyed by her experiences in Afghanistan that she will never work again.

 

Together they come to understand each other slowly, and Maggie proves that some of the best detectives never need say a word or carry a gun.

 

I read this book in one sitting, I could not put it down and loved every moment of the story.

 

Crais has put in a lot of work building great characters in the past, but for me Maggie is there in the best of Crais's characters beside Elvis Cole.

 

The pace is always tense, you worry enough about the characters individual well-being to make the book a great read. All is not tension though, there are lots of releases especially at the K9 training facility where the instructors try to instill a little dog into the recruits.

 

Crais has definitely put a good deal of time into looking for background into German Shepherd behavior, and it pays off with a good story.

 

You may buy Suspect from my Amazon.com Store here.