Dave
Strickland - Private Investigator, Southern
California
 "Consuming
Fire"
 Here's
another ex-cop turned private P.I. living in southern California mystery
novel. But wait! This is not just any writer. Mr. Davis holds
a Ph.D in philosophy and he gives us a few things to think about while
taking us along on this page turner of an investigation.
In Consuming
Fire, Strickland is hired to figure out who is sending threatening
letters and making harassing phone calls to John Haven, author of a book
on suffering grief. John Haven's expertise for his book comes from
his own first hand experience from losing his son in a burning building
while saving three other children. Haven also leads a group of grieving
parents who have lost their children to an unsolved serial murderer. Strickland
turns out to be right for this job because he too has lost a wife and
child and can relate to the various stages of grief experienced by the
parents.
Now before
you start to think this sounds like a morbid book, think again, the subject
is tough but the mystery moves fast. Strickland is a very likable,
intelligent and sensitive guy who gets just as banged up as any other
P.I. The difference is that after the last page, we're still thinking
about the moral implications. (Reviewed
2-6-99)
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About the Author:
 Thomas
D. Davis has been an insurance claims investigator, a bar musician, and
a college professor. He holds a Ph.D in philosophy and is the author
of Philosophy: An Introduction Through Fiction, Discussion and Readings.
Suffer Little Children won a Shamus Award for
Best First P.I. novel.
Davis lives in Northern California.
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