Coulter's FBI series are truly enjoyable.

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	• Double Take: FBI Thriller Catherine Coulter Putnam's Sons, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 55 reviews view larger image
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Too Much, Not Enough

Catherine Coulter's FBI series has been a mystery/romance fan's read, but something is lacking in the later books of the series. They don't have the tightness, the spark, or the suspense of the earlier books.
Savich snd Sherlock step in for cameo appearances, then solve the mystery, but the villain is a forgone conclusion and the romance is stilted, too much change too fast.
The psychics add to the muddle, not clear the air. The most interesting of the group is more prop than character in the story -- a plot line left danging.
This one lay in the pile for some months, it didn't mellow with age.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

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Catching up with old friends

Reading this book was like a visit from old friends: I got to catch up on their lives. Savich and Sherlock are called on to help, I got a glimpse of baby Sean, who isn't really a baby anymore. Sheriff Dixon Noble is back, along with Special Agent Ruth Warnecki. I also got to meet Judge and Mrs. Sherlock, Lacey's parents. (How many of you remember that Sherlock really does have a first name?)

It has all the things you'd expect from a thriller: a car chase, a shootout, bombs, fires, necks being sliced open. The typical murder & mayhem that I love so much.

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Coulter's FBI series are truly enjoyable.

I'm not much for romance novels, but when Coulter write her FBI series, I find I have to read each one. I'm not finished with this book, but I am finding I can't put it down! I want to know, "Who did it!" Coulter has managed to intertwine 2 story plots very effectively, and her story lines are very easy to follow. I don't have to stop to try to remember who the characters are and what has happened in their particular plot. Her twists and turns keep me interested and surprised. This is a great read!

Perfection.

It boggles the mind that those who trash this book are so clueless of the sheer artistry and perfection of writing skill that Catherine Coulter has achieved. The way this author creates a flow and unfolding of the story is incomparable and a master work for other authors to study and try to imitate. Chapter 31, where she unfolds the dynamics and life history of the psychopathic murderer Xavier Makepeace is so compactly and clearly written that it was like being inside the character's head reimagining it oneself. Catherine Coulter invites you into the story and there you stay until it is over. I loved the final chapter where Dillon Savich gets his heart's desire with his new wheels. What a scene. I found myself grinning like the characters in the final scene where this book ended. Overall, this book is packed with truly riveting, convoluted, intricate plots, interweaving two story lines and bringing them into a whole that truly satisfies the reader with all it's quirky characters of psychics, mediums, channelers and so on gave the book a sense of the mystical and esoteric practices of some gifted individuals who are truly masters of the mind. Just like Coulter is mistress of the pen. I loved this book best of all the FBI Series. It is the most complex of all she has written to date. Read it like you are tasting the finest wine, or a delectable chocolate or other favorite taste treat. This book gives you a convincing perspective of the "woo-woo world" like none I have ever read. There is never a time when you laugh at the way she has addressed those psychic practices claimed by the practitioners in the story. If she doesn't already have one, then this is Coulter's PhD in Creative Writing. You are the best!

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Coulter can do better

Having read everything by Coulter, I was a little dissappointed with this FBI thriller. She can and has done much better.

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It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy. Standing at the railing, she savors the sounds around her-tourists, seals on a barge-and for a moment enjoys the sheer normalcy of it all. And then it comes to an end. Out of nowhere she's approached by a respectable-looking man who distracts her with conversation before violently attacking her and throwing her the railing. If it hadn't been for Special Agent Cheney Stone, out to stretch his legs between courses at a local restaurant, Julia would have vanished into the bay's murky depths. Not only does he save her from a watery grave, but he senses a connection between her assault and her husband's death, and sets out to serve as her protector while reopening August Ransom's murder investigation. Meanwhile, in Maestro, Virginia, Sheriff Dixon Noble-last seen in Point Blank-still mourns his wife, Christie, who vanished hree years earlier. His life, too, is just getting back to normal when he learns of a San Francisco woman named Charlotte Pallack, whose shocking resemblance to Christie sends Dix across the country. Though he knows in his heart that she can't possibly be his wife, Dix is compelled to see her with his own eyes. Once in San Francisco, Dix and Cheney's paths inevitably cross. With the help of agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, whose San Francisco connections prove essential in unlocking the mystery behind Charlotte Pallack's identity as well as the forces behind Julia Ransom's attempted murder, Sheriff Noble and Agent Stone push deep into a complex world of psychics and poseurs. As the stakes and the body count rise, Savich, Sherlock, Dix, and Cheney fight for answers-and their lives.

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