Trace

By Warren Murphy

Book Overview

Trace Series Book 1 Trace aka Devlin Tracy. He operates out of Las Vegas as a very private investigator. The giant insurance company that employs him is willing to overlook his drinking, his gambling and his womanizing for one reason: No matter how dirty and dangerous the job, he gets it done. Now his part-time hooker girlfriend is off on an out-of-town trick, his alimony bills are piling up, and his assignment is to find out if an idealistic doctor is dedicated to killing his patients rather than curing them. What he is about to discover is that ordinary people often have the most perverse secrets, that one unsolved death can mean open season for someone aspiring to become a career beneficiary, and that unless he comes up with some answers fast-someone might put a permanent end to him and his investigation in this dirty game of dollars and death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759290148
• ISBN13: 9780759290143
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: eReads.com
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.8" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Trace - What a likeable guy.

Trace, short for Devlin Tracey, is a drunk, and a womanizer. His girlfriend - or "roommate" - is a part-time hooker. Issues? You-sure-ya-betcha. Trace works irregularly for an insurance company to check out claims. The latest is a questionable death in a hospital where the deceased had only recently signed over his fortune in life-insurance to his doctor, and then just up and died. Assuming the doctor coerced and then killed his patient, Trace is called in. What follows is a prolonged excursion into an unimpressive mystery. The ending ties all plot-strings together, but with little substance in the body of the book, the end seems cheap. However, what lacks in mystery is more than made up for in Trace's character. Granted, he's not a savory character - but the blurbs when he tape records himself, and the snappy dialoge with other characters is what propels this book up to 4 stars. I would definitely take this book to the beach, but only if you buy it from a second-hand book dealer for less that $4. (The book itself was published in 1983 and sold for $2.95.)