Moon Music

by Faye Kellerman

In the desert of Las Vegas, the mutilated corpse of a young woman is found. Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe is leading up the investigation. What he finds however, links his closest childhood friend and her husband to the continuing deaths. In a story that takes the reader from glitzy Las Vegas to atomic bomb testing Nevada Test Site, Poe follows a trail that leads him to his past and the killer.

I don't think I've ever read anything by Faye Kellerman before. The reviews on Amazon say that her other books - which is apparently a series - are much better. I didn't think that was bad at all. I had some trouble keeping the characters straight at the beginning. Kellerman let us see inside the heads of most of the main characters and until I got into it and figured out who was who, it was a little confusing. In fact, I thought maybe this was a series book and I had missed the first couple that would have helped me keep everything straight. But if it is, I didn't see that anywhere.

What seemed to be a straight-forward murder mystery evolved to include a supernatural element that I quite liked. But that of course is my thing. (You don't read everything Stephen King has ever written and NOT enjoy supernatural elements.)

I would give Faye Kellerman another try. I read a book by her son Jesse that I also enjoyed and would give her books another shot just for that reason alone. Maybe I'll try that series a lot of folks on Amazon seemed to like.