Blood Brother: J. A Kerley (aka, Jack Kerley)
Posted 30th July 2008 at 02:53 PM by Ezteq
This is the fifth in the series and due to some screwey ordering at the library i didnt ever actually get to read No. 4 as the 5th was ordered in first!
I foudn this series of books by accedent and I'm bloody glad I did, they feature a duo of Alabama detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus...and Ryders brother jeremy...who happens to be a serial killer incarcerated in a local asylum for the seriously squirrelly.
Ryder and Nautilus work in a department called PSIT (or pissit as the coworkers like to call it) where they track down the psychopaths and sickos operating in the area, the PSIT unit only gets called upon occasionally but when it goes in to action is when another book appears. In order to apprehend these psychos Ryder likes to enlist Jeremy to give some insights in to who they might be or why they do such things, Jeremy (I like to think of him as a cross between jim carrey and hannibal lecter) is an entertaining briliant genius who like the darker side of life and (yaaay!) he features more in this book than in any of the previous that I have read.
A case takes Ryder up to new york where a series of women have been horribly murdered (it really is too yummy for words) and it seems that brother dearest is at large!
How did Jeremy get there? what is his big plan? can ryder stop him and still keep his true identity (as the brother to a serial killer) a secret? and will he get in to those oh so frosty pants of the sexy ice queen lieutenant
you'll have to read it cos i aint tellin :P
however, i would strongly recommend you read them in order:
the hundreth man
death collectors
broken souls
little girl lost
blood brother
more please Mr Kerley, I love the style of writing, the books are not comedies but the detectives (and jeremy) have a beautifully dark sense of humour. It is often the case with books about serial killers that they become too dark and murkey and far from enjoying a good blood and guts read you end up feeling depressed and a bit bored but these books manage to stay light while still providing the highly desired eergh factor.
I foudn this series of books by accedent and I'm bloody glad I did, they feature a duo of Alabama detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus...and Ryders brother jeremy...who happens to be a serial killer incarcerated in a local asylum for the seriously squirrelly.
Ryder and Nautilus work in a department called PSIT (or pissit as the coworkers like to call it) where they track down the psychopaths and sickos operating in the area, the PSIT unit only gets called upon occasionally but when it goes in to action is when another book appears. In order to apprehend these psychos Ryder likes to enlist Jeremy to give some insights in to who they might be or why they do such things, Jeremy (I like to think of him as a cross between jim carrey and hannibal lecter) is an entertaining briliant genius who like the darker side of life and (yaaay!) he features more in this book than in any of the previous that I have read.
A case takes Ryder up to new york where a series of women have been horribly murdered (it really is too yummy for words) and it seems that brother dearest is at large!
How did Jeremy get there? what is his big plan? can ryder stop him and still keep his true identity (as the brother to a serial killer) a secret? and will he get in to those oh so frosty pants of the sexy ice queen lieutenant
you'll have to read it cos i aint tellin :P
however, i would strongly recommend you read them in order:
the hundreth man
death collectors
broken souls
little girl lost
blood brother
more please Mr Kerley, I love the style of writing, the books are not comedies but the detectives (and jeremy) have a beautifully dark sense of humour. It is often the case with books about serial killers that they become too dark and murkey and far from enjoying a good blood and guts read you end up feeling depressed and a bit bored but these books manage to stay light while still providing the highly desired eergh factor.
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