CRIMINAL MISCHIEF 19: Sunshine State (Jake Longly #3)

 

From Publishers Weekly: 

 

In Lyle’s ingenious third mystery featuring retired major league pitcher Jake Longly (after 2017’s A-List), Jake, who runs a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Ala., is again roped into working for his father Ray’s PI firm. An attorney has contacted Ray on behalf of Billy Wayne Baker, a convicted serial killer. Though Baker pleaded guilty to strangling seven women, he insists that he killed only five of them, and wants that assertion validated. When Jake meets Baker in prison, the murderer refuses to name the other killer, claiming that doing so would lead to accusations that Jake’s inquiries were biased. The investigator’s task is made even harder by Baker’s not even identifying which of the dead women were killed by someone 

else . (To his credit, Lyle makes this complicated scenario
credible.) Along with his girlfriend, Jake travels to Pine Key, 

Fla., the scene of three of the strangulations, where the couple
pretend to be researching a documentary examining the impact of
the killings on the small community. The clever plot twists will
surprise even genre veterans. This entry is the best in the
series so far. 

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