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    A Safe Place for Dying

    By Jack Fredrickson

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    A sly and clever caper among the richest of the rich, A Safe Place for Dying is for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Robert Crais.

    An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago's wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready---chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is worth three million. It's easy to see it as harmless---a note from a nut.

    Then a mansion explodes. The homeowners panic, and want it hushed up. If word gets out that a bomber is targeting Crystal Waters, their multimillion-dollar homes will become worthless, a last catastrophe for people strung out from living the good life too well. They hire Dek Elstrom to investigate.

    Dek Elstrom used to soar high, too, when he lived with his multimillionaire wife at Crystal Waters, but that was before the dominos of his life tipped over and his ex-wife threw him out. Now reduced to living in a crumbling stone turret, bankrupt of everything but attitude, he's not even his own ideal choice for the job. He's too broke, however, to question the motives of a gift-horse client. He needs the money---and the chance to reconnect with his ex-wife.

    Another bomb goes off, and Dek realizes the culprit must be someone who is angry, needs money, and used to live at Crystal Waters. Then he realizes something else. He himself is the prime suspect.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 14, 2006
    ISBN9781429996785
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    Jack Fredrickson

    Jack Fredrickson lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago. He is the author of seven Dek Elstrom PI mysteries, the first of which, A Safe Place for Dying, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, and one standalone, Silence the Dead.

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    • 2/5
      Characterization of protagonist very thin. Otherwise reasonable plot and pace.
    • 2/5
      I wanted to like this book, mainly because the author describes Chicago in such a compelling way. The protagonist's sidekick is interesting, too, but the protagonist isn't, and neither is the mystery. Locale alone isn't sufficient.
    • 3/5
      Down on his luck Dek Elstrom is being given a chance to redeem himself by doing a little PI work for the folks who run the exclusive Crystal Waters gated community, of which he was recently a resident. After an extortion letter and explosion, it doesn't seem that Crystal Waters is that safe after all. And even though his ex-wife, Amanda, is safely off in France, her (their former) home is sitting there unoccupied, with many works of fine art that she has alwyas said she would save before calling 911. This is the first in a series and I would certainly check in with Dek again.There is a fun side-story about Dek's present home. After being thrown out of Crystal Waters, he decides to try to rehab his grandfather's (a former bootlegger) residence. The city is difficult, many old taxes are due and they want to label it historic. A stand-off ensues as Dek continues to rehab and live in the limestone turret.
    • 4/5
      When a million-dollar mansion in the wealthy gated community of Crystal Waters explodes following the receipt of an extortion letter, the fearful residents hire former businessman Dek Elstrom, whose own career has been ruined by scandal, to uncover the truth, but the case is complicated when Dek finds himself at the head of the suspect list. A first novel.