The Feline Friendship: A Jack Caleb and John Thinnes Mystery

by Michael Allen Dymmoch

Book Overview

When a vicious rapist crosses the line into murder, Detective John Thinnes and his prickly new partner draft psychiatrist Jack Caleb to help them track the killer down. When a young woman is brutally... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312310161
• ISBN13: 9780312310165
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Riveting!

John Thinnes gets assigned a new partner, Don Franchi. And although he specializes in homicides, he gets assigned to the case of a serial rapist. He hates working on rape cases and he hates working with his new partner--a woman with a real bad in-your-face attitude. And the pressure mounts when the serial rapist becomes a killer. Thinnes turns to Jack Caleb once again, hoping for insight to find the killer before he kills again. This tightly written story will keep you reading and riveted to your seat. I liked the bristling relationship between Thinnes and Franchi, an interesting and complex new character. The denouement was unexpected, exciting, and satisfying. It's been too long of a wait for another book from Ms. Dymmoch but it was worth it! I can't wait to read the next book.Also recommended: Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski series, Karen Kijewski's Kat Colorado series, Barb D'Amato's Cat Marsala series

A compelling read

Chicago Detective Thinnes specializes in homicides until he's assigned a rape case & a new partner, who happens to be a female with an attitude. This allows for some splendid sexist sparring among fellow cops & some hoary old gender apartheid jokes being tossed around like grenades.THE FELINE FRIENDSHIP is more than just a good mystery, it is a handbook on what rape is, how it affects the victims, the men & women who must seek justice for the crime, as well as our familiesMichael Allen Dymmoch's style is short, simple & compelling, I could not put it down! A complex tale of power in the work place & why men rape.

Misleading Title but Wonderful Procedural.....

I'm not sure about the feline in this book, so the title is somewhat confusing. This is definitely NOT in the same category as those awful "The cat who...." books. This is a great story about friendship, trust, and incidentally, a serial rapist, and has some interesting psycological insights, too. Not too gory, and extremely well-written. Stayed up late to finish it!

solid police procedural

Chicago police department veteran Detective John Thinnes is unhappy when he is forced into a partnership with the beautiful rookie detective Dom Franchi. She isn't elated that her new partner is part of the good old boy network. Both realize they have to make the best of a bad situation and their immediate superior thinks that in time it will prove to be a good pairing.Their first case turns out to be a brutal rape in which the victim is so battered her own roommate doesn't recognize her. The rapist's next target dies but the police recognize the signature of the perpetrator and connect him to two other rape cases. A break sends Thinnes and Franchi to the northern suburb of Waukegan where a series of rapes years ago bear a startling resemblance to the crimes being committed in the present. Just when they think they have a lead in the case another woman is abducted and the bickering duo has to race against time before she is abused.Anyone who likes to read a solid police procedural is going to love THE FELINE FRIENDSHIP, in spite of the crime topic. The plot is an action thriller that doesn't neglect in depth characterizations. It is fascinating to watch the partnership of Franchi and Thinnes evolve from prickly co-existence to one of steady understanding and trust. Michael Allen Dymmoch is an expert at creating a believable investigation so that readers understand what police officers have to deal with on a daily basis. It will be interesting to see how the Thinnes-Franchi partnership holds up in future novels.Harriet Klausner