Blood Work

From AudioFile Anyone who's read John Douglas's nonfictional works on serial killers can tell that the convenience store murder at the beginning of this thriller is no random act. Why does it take former FBI profiler Terry McCaleb so long to get the picture? Even veteran narrator Dick HIll cannot elevate this histrionic plot. Earnest, yet hard-boiled, he aptly portrays the retired G-man, who is recovering from a heart transplant. However, his pot-smoking driver sounds like a cross between Cheech (or is it Chong?) and Kato Kaelin. And the two female characters--though recognizably Hispanic--sound vulnerable to the point of helplessness, a portrayal at odds with their take-charge professions: a nurse and a cop. E.K.D. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Product Description Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, renovating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the "What Happened To?" column of the LA Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest. From her, McCaleb learns a terrible truth: that the donor of his heart was not killed in an accident, as he'd been told, but was murdered. Wracked with guilt over the fact that he's alive because another human being was killed, McCaleb embarks on a private investigation of his donor's murder - a crime as horrific as anything he ever encountered as a serial killer investigator for the FBI. About the Author Michael Connelly is a former journalist and author of the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels and the bestselling novels Chasing the Dime, The Poet, Blood Work, and Void Moon. Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and novels, including an Edgar Award. He lives in Florida.