Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues

by Robert Fate

Number two in the popular Baby Shark series. Now 21, Baby Shark, Kristin Van Dur, has accepted Otis Millett’s invitation to join his firm and learn to be a PI. Busy rounding up a runaway teenage oil... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977627624
• ISBN13: 9780977627622
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Capital Crime Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Baby Shark Cooks Some Goose

This Baby Shark novel is at least as good as its predecessor. This time, Baby and Otis are hired to protect an heiress, but the job isn't as simple as it seems. The heiress is being held by gangsters, and when Baby makes her dramatic rescue, shotguns blast away, killing two, and leaving Baby Shark with a drugged out heiress and a fistful of the mob's loot. Otis and Baby Shark are in trouble. Seems everybody is looking for them, and bodies are turning up everywhere the bad guys look. Problem is; Who to trust? Robert Fate really knows how to tell a suspenseful story. He's got me hooked with this Baby Shark series, and I can't wait for the next one.

great series - wonderful characters!

Baby Shark is back, and she's as hot as ever! Baby Shark, aka Kristin Van Dijk, is a private investigator in Texas in the 1950's. She's moved on from tracking down her attackers who raped her, beat her, and killed her father. Now she's working cases with her partner, retired cop Otis Millet. Otis and Kristin are searching for a missing Texas heiress whom they've had to track down before, but they have no idea how different things are this time. Kristin manages to weasel her way into a situation to find the girl, but realizes that things are unusual as soon as she arrives at the farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. When she manages to escape with her life - barely - and the girl, she leaves a bloodbath behind her and one dangerous witness. Also by Robert Fate: Baby Shark Otis and Kristin have been hired by Sherry Beasley's lawyers to find her - again. Sherry has a history of taking off without notice to go on drug and alcohol benders, but when Kristin finds her coked up, naked, and under the thumb of a local gangster's nephew, Bobby Jack, she knows that things are going downhill fast. She manages to escape and get Sherry back to Otis, and they take her to detox while they look into why she had a huge wad of money, a purse, and no clothes when she was found. After an attempt or two on her life, Kristin realizes that a witness is looking for her and doesn't care if she's found dead or alive. To confuse matters, a local waitress, Virginia, has pressed Kristin into service - as a photographer. When the photo shoot goes awry and dead bodies are left behind, Otis begins to wonder if there are larger problems in play. As things unfurl, the PIs realize that their clients are hiding information regarding Vahaska, the local gangster that could get all of them killed. The Dallas police bring yet another distraction into Kristin's complex life: Detective Lee Pierson, by investigating the bodies found in the farmhouse's garden - especially when they find more bodies than originally expected. Beaumont Blues is an awesome, non-stop follow-up to Fate's first novel featuring Kristin and her extended, adopted family. The violence is there is every chapter, following the players like a dog, but we cheer them on simply because the situations are so unexpected. Kristin holds her own, taking the hits one after the other, and keeps on going. I was a little disappointed in the small inclusion of her pool-playing skills in the storyline this time, but the characters are still being developed. If you don't like blood and guts, don't read this. If you like a strong female character with a sense of humor and ability to defend herself and others, then this is the book for you.

Can the movie be far behind?

Robert Fate once again takes us on a fast-paced ride with terrific characters that are so well developed, you finish each chapter thinking you are watching the story unfold on a wide screen TV. Sometimes the action is so intense, when a gun goes off, you duck. Kristin and Otis make a terrific team. She's growing up; he's hard as nails. Beautiful pairing, especially since they respect each other. I always enjoy Fate's characters. They are so three-dimensional. And the atmosphere is sheer poetry. A fast read, mostly because the book is so darn interesting.

Long live Kristin

I came across this series by reading a review in Spinetingler. The premise of the first book in the series Baby Shark hooked me from the start. Kristin Van Dijk is left for dead after a gang rape by a biker gang in the 1950s. Out for revenge she trains herself in the killing arts. Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues picks up the series two years later. Kristin is 21 years old and a partner in a private eye firm. On the case to find a missing heiress, she and her partner Otis, get involved in a mob entanglement, a police investigation and a con job. The body count rises as they battle to solve the case before they get whacked by a mob boss out to even the score. I love the premise of the series, a woman as a hired gun who can outshoot, outfight and outknife the bad guys. The tension is constantly escalating with a wonderful ending that leaves me intrigued for the third book. Kristin seems to have met a love interest and I can't wait to see how this plays out. I'm hoping that the publishing world takes notice and we see more kick-arse heroines like Kristin taking centre stage. Baby Shark and Beaumont Blues are a bloody good read and Robert Fate AKA Bealmear (who is a member of Crimespace) is a bloody genius. Long live Kristin.

Better than Baby Shark

Kristin Van Dijk has been a PI and partner with Otis Millett for almost two years now. They are hired to return a runaway heiress as it is critical she reach her 18th birthday and be present at the reading of her father's will. They have rescued the heiress before, but this time it turns bad and Kristin ends up with two dead gangsters, the heiress, and the bag full of ransom money. And that's only the beginning as Kristin and Otis try to figure out what is really going on while keeping the heiress safe, although she disappears on them again, and themselves alive. For me, this was a much better book than the first. The story had more balance to it, even with a higher body count than the first. But here, they are working with the law--at least as much as it is possible for them to do. The partnership of Otis and Kristin is wonderfully done and it's interesting to see Kristin's character develop through the story. Seeing men be dismissive of Kristin and, therefore, underestimate her, is an interesting reflection of that time. There is a secondary story of Virginia which dimension to the story. The sense of place is effective and the dialogue even more so. There are scenes of palpable suspense but it is balanced within the story, and a wonderful ending. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am very glad I was persuaded to give it a chance.