Jim Michael Hansen Reviews

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Added November 14, 2006

Deadly Laws

A Bryson Coventry Thriller

Author: Jim Michael Hansen
Publisher: Dark Sky Publishing, Inc.
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: October 15, 2007
Genre: Fiction: Legal/Crime Thriller
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0976924331
ISBN-13: 978-0-9769243-3-3
Author Email/Website: www.jimhansenbooks.com
Reviewer: Kathy Martin
Rating: 9 Gargoyles

Kayla Beck loves her life as a law student; excited as to what the future holds for her. Then the deep, scrambled voice coming through her cell phone threatened all of that. Next thing she knew, she was caught up in another woman's obsessive journey into revenge.

Denver Detective Bryson Coventry is the best homicide cop around. It seemed that all the best - and most complicated murders - come his way. True to form, he has stumbled into another one. First it is just a murdered drifter. Then a young law student shows up dead. The two deaths seem unrelated at first, but Bryson's gut tells him differently. Digging deeper, he finds himself in a race to catch a serial killer.

This is the fourth book in the author's series of "Law" books. Having read the other three, I have to say when I heard there was a fourth I was a bit skeptical that Mr. Hansen could keep up the same pace and mystery that the previous books had.

"O ye of little faith," keeps running through my head. How could I have ever doubted that the author was up to the task? Not only did I learn a few new things about him, I got to fall in lust again with the same sexy and intriguing Bryson I had met before. One thing that still amazed me is the way this Detective attracts women. He is never content with just working through the mysteries of his cases, but continually wanders through the ever-changing mystery of women. (And they always seem to be beautiful women.)

Just as with the previous three books, this one grabbed me from the first page. My habit is to go through a book a few chapters at a time. With this one, I sat down just after dinner, and other than a couple of breaks, I finished it the same night (actually it was the next morning). The story does not get boring or bogged down in details. This author has a great knack for going just deep enough into one area and then shifting to another just at the right time. This technique also helps to build the tension. And believe me - there is tension.

Should you read this book? Yes, definitely. I have said this before about this author's other works and it still applies now; turn off your crime thrillers on television and tune-in to this book.

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Added October 27, 2006

Fatal Laws

A Bryson Coventry Thriller

Author: Jim Michael Hansen
Publisher: Dark Sky Publishing, Inc.
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: June 1, 2007
Genre: Fiction: Legal/Crime Thriller
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0976924364
ISBN-13: 978-0976924364
Author Email/Website: www.jimhansenbooks.com
Reviewer: Kathy Martin
Rating: 9 Gargoyles

Bryson Conventry is a gritty, good-looking homicide detective in Denver. Suddenly he has found himself in what appears to be a search for a serial killer. The bodies of four women have been found - all in the same place. Each has been killed a bit differently, but they all seemed to have disappeared at the same time of year.

One of Coventry's suspects is the intoxicatingly beautiful Trianca Holland. She is a woman who likes to live on the edge, without any boundaries. Now Coventry is in her sights and she wants to do more than just answer his questions.

Haley Wesson is a fresh out of college law student who is now working at one of Denver's most prestigious firms. She finds out that one of the top lawyers she previously interned with at the firm is one of Conventry's victims. Feeling that the lawyer's murder was more than a coincidence, Haley goes on a fishing expedition that could end up making her another victim.

This is the third book in the "Laws" series surrounding the cases of Bryson Coventry. While at times a "series" of anything - whether a movie or book - can sometimes get stale as it continues from one segment to the next, this is definitely NOT the case with this trio of books!

Jim Michael Hansen has amazingly kept each book fresh and invigorating. Like the other two, I was taken on a roller coaster ride to solve Coventry's case, but this one grabbed me faster than the other two did. The familiar characters that I was re-introduced too, were just as intriguing, funny and smart as they were the first time I met them.

This book gets the reader to run from page to page the way the detective runs from clue to clue. But be prepared...the last twist at the end even had me shaking my head!

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