Damned good read. Spoiler Alert.
This one starts with Catherine Martin in the office of her grandmothers lawyer. Her grandmother at age ninety passed away and Catherine is in the lawyers office in reference to the will. There is a letter that's thirty years old waiting for Catherine to read. This is when she learns her true history.
Catherine's real name is Katerina Maltisi and one of her relatives was the maid to a Romanov empress and when that person, The Empress Maria died she gave Catherine's relative one of the famed Romanov Faberge eggs. This one is now hers. Some of the eggs have been found by collectors and others have been bought for fabulous prices when they came up for auction. All the eggs are beautiful and covered in jewels. They all have a surprise inside.
Gregory Kalma has been contacted and told that Martin has one of the eggs. He will now do what he needs to do to get that egg. Kalma is a man who has been collecting the eggs for decades.
Matt Kile is an ex-Detective who worked for the Long Beach Police Department. Kile is 6'3", one big guy. He and his partner had arrested a man for rape and murder. The murder victims were the woman he raped and her children.
Kile and his partner Fidge had an excellent case but the man walked on technicalities. The judge had no choice and was madder than hell about it.
Kile was also madder than hell and when he saw that animal punch the husband of the raped and murdered woman he emptied his gun into that son of a bitch right on the steps of the courthouse with news camera's rolling. He was arrested and convicted of murder.
Kile spent four years in jail until that husband, who was wealthy used that wealth and got petitions up and the Governor of California signed a pardon for Kile.
While in jail Kile became a writer and his roommate was Axel, a man who became his assistant once he himself got out of jail. While in jail Matt learned how it all works and what you had to do to get and keep friends inside and how to survive inside. Those lessons serve him well now.
Matt's books sold so once he was released with that full pardon he became a writer. Of course he's still a detective at heart so he got a license to become a PI. He doesn't use it much in fact his last case was over a year ago.
All that changes when Catherine Martin walks into his office and hires him to protect her so she can sell the egg. An egg that contains a seven carat red diamond the surprise inside that by itself is worth almost thirty million dollars. Kline decides he will take the case and what a case it turns out to be.
So begins one damned fine read.
This one has Matt, his associate and friend Axel, his old police partner Fidge, Catherine Martin, Clarice Talmage Matts sometime lover who lives in the same building that Kile does, Macki's bistro where many grifters hang out, grifters who are friends with Matt and Axel and aid him, Gregor Kalma, his two guards Lucas and Smith, Lucas and Smith who kidnap Kile and take him to a meeting with Kalma, a Matt who makes a deal with Kalma, a deal he has no intention of keeping, a bungalow that Martin hired before she met Matt and moved in with Clarice so Kile could keep her close, a huge man named Buddah who Kile asks to join his group to protect Catherine, a Buddah who is murdered, a Matt who figures it had to be one of Kalma's men, a Matt who learns it wasn't them, a Matt who then figures out who the killer is, a killer no one would have suspected, a Kalma with a secret, a secret that includes another working for him, Matt's ex wife Helen, his daughters Rose who is married and his other daughter who's in college, a Helen who demands Matt come to dinner once month so he can really talk with his girls, a Helen who also makes bed time with Matt on those visits, a Helen who tells Matt on his last visit that she's met someone, a Helen who is engaged to Matt's former Captain a man Matt loaths, a Matt who decides Helen deserves her own happiness, a Matt who takes his time and finally figures it all out, a Kalma who gets his egg but not the surprise inside which is that red diamond, a killer who wants Matt to join her and Matt Kline figuring it all out, taking out the bad guys, protecting his friends solving the puzzle and staying alive.
Five Stars and then some. Great read.
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