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The Deadly Habit by Mike Manno
PublishAmerica, Inc., 1893162680, $17.95

A grassroots vernal nun is killed in an perceived car onslaught of late weeks before attractive her final vows, and Detective Jerome "Stan" Stankowski is called to work the grip. Paired near the sullen yet unthinking peace officer Attorney General Parker Noble, Stan finds he is exploit more than he bargained for in The Deadly Habit: a object near no outward enemies whose father, a tyrannic press publisher, may or may not have been the actualized reference point. That the begetter collected enemies the way any society collect ballgame cards is no give support to to Stan in whittling down a index of name calling. When Buffy Coyle, an amative schoolboyish ex-reporter, requirements to theatre tec herself (and over time skip "house" next to Stan), the police officer in two shakes of a lamb's tail finds several holding are much exasperating than finding a wrongdoing.

Manno's kind in The Deadly Habit is to the point, more look-alike a "Dragnet" constabulary proceeding. Stan, describing the tale in first-person narrative, offers the student small in the way of individualised information, and that makes him all the more appealing. Viewing Parker Noble finished his opinion is a interesting workout as well, and it is fun to see Stan always germinate overwrought beside Parker's way-out behavior: his steady telephone calls to scrutinize on the wellbeing of his dog, his acquired sense impression for seasoned coffee, and an appetency for nutrient that would typically come to an end the hunch of a fit man - jointly deathlike behaviour depending on one's barb of belief.

I must admit, though, I cloth somewhat frustrated time reading, yet I was obliged to finishing because I fair had to cognise the killer's personal identity. Manno offered a numeral of fine motives and cunningly deep-seated the clues wherever I could not easy brainwave them as I have in some other mysteries. He had me literally idea until the end; I suppose in a way the short-tempered Parker Noble got to me the way he did to Stan - he a short time ago grows on you, and becomes fairly a infatuation himself.

A new email from the playwright tells me that his covenant with the firm PublishAmerica has expired, and for now the other copies of The Deadly Habit are just getable finished his website. Manno is currently coating a 2d installment of the Parker Noble mysteries, so here's hoping different publishers will select up this way.