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Hook: A Meg Gillis Crime Novel |
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 Hook:A Meg Gillis Crime Novel by C.J. Songer Scribner 299 pages, 1999 ISBN 0684850435 Reviewed by Nancy Mehl Meg Gillis is an ex-cop who runs a security business in Beverly Hills with her partner Mike Johnson, another former police officer. Meg has the soul of a cop and the heart of a woman. This intriguing combination makes for an in-your-face romp through a novel laced with death, mystery and love. When Meg serves divorce papers on the suave Rudolpho de la Pena, a famous former Argentine soccer player, she gets much more than she bargained for. De la Pena turns up dead, an apparent suicide. Meg finds it impossible to accept the idea that this composed, self-assured man could have taken his own life. She begins to ask questions. The wrong questions. Someone takes notice, and Meg’s life hangs in the balance. Who is following her and why has De la Pena’s wife Sylvia disappeared? Meg throws herself into an investigation fraught with danger and deceit against the advice of her partner Mike, and the man she loves, police sergeant Joe Reilly. The more Meg pushes for the truth, the farther away she seems to be pushing Reilly. Her dilemma gives the tough Meg Gillis a vulnerability that the reader can identify with. C.J. Songer draws portraits of real people, complex, imperfect, but appealing. Hook rushes on and builds to a dramatic crescendo, yet ties the clues together in a satisfying knot at its conclusion. This is the author’s second Meg Gillis novel. The first Bait was released in 1998. |
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