title: Dead on: A Marcus Rydell, Kat Holley Pi Thriller (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
author: Robert W. Walker
description: At the start of this middling thriller, the first in a new series from Walker (<i>PSI: Blue</i>), Marcus Rydell, a disgraced ex-cop and failed PI on the verge of suicide, and Kat Holley, an attractive doctor bent on revenge, join forces to catch a psychopathic killer. Iden Cantu, four years earlier, slew six people in an Atlanta bloodbath, including Rydell's then police partner and Holley's cop husband. Cantu, who's made a game of stalking and killing the surviving relatives from the bloodbath, never becomes more than an unseen bogeyman until late in the story, when Rydell, Holley and another at-risk family seek refuge in a remote cabin in Georgia's Blue Ridge Lake area. Besieged and taunted by Cantu, Rydell and Holley seek to turn the tables on the sadistic hunter. The climactic struggle arrives too late to save the cumbersome setup and slow-developing plot. Leaden dialogue doesn't help. <i>(July)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # ONE FINAL BREATH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Ricki James Mystery Book 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## C.R. Chandler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Also by C.R. Chandler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **RICKI JAMES MYSTERY SERIES (MYSTERY/THRILLER)**
  
  
  One Final Breath October, 2020
  
  
  One Final Scream January, 2021
  
  
  One Life Lost Spring, 2021
  
  
  
  
  
  **By Cat Chandler (Cozy Mystery)**
  
  
  A Special Blend of Murder 2017
  
  
  Dinner, Drinks, and Murder 2017
  
  
  A Burger, Fries, and Murder 2018
  
  
  Champagn