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Bay Rumble is having a bad day. He discovers the body of a woman hanging from the riggings of his custom-made catamaran that doubles as his home. The police have a lot of questions for him, but he can provide no answers. He has never met Rhonda Nash and has no idea how she got his business card. He does not know of any package that everyone seems to want and that he is supposed to have received from the victim. Finally, his girlfriend wants to leave him in order to pursue her dreams, Bay does not want her to go. Eventually, things will be getting worse as he narrates the second book in a proposed five-book series. The sisters of the murder victim want to hire Bay to find the killer of their sibling. Several questionable government agents and officials want the parcel he is supposed to get and will go to any extreme to claim it. Someone close to Rumble will be killed in order to make a point and finally, his life will be threatened in more ways than he cares to count. Of course, he is going to get involved with the case. If he wants to live in peace he needs to get to the bottom of everything. George Snyder has a general idea as to what he wants this story to be, but in his over eagerness, its execution is flawed. There are too many characters involved in the novel just for the sole purpose of serving as red herrings. The author introduces each one of them giving them a semblance of a life only to have it extinguished as the tale progresses. There are several scenes that seem superfluous and some repetitions in the book. The narrative is choppy with no smooth time transition and an abrupt ending. The storyline could have been better with a good proofreader and an editor. A big turn-off for reading fans is bad spelling and there is enough in this book to annoy plenty of English professors. There is a CIA operative by the name of Vasquéz who hails from Columbia. No, not the Ivy-League school – the country and just when you think you have seen all the possible spelling of the infamous Libyan strong man, a new one comes along – Kadafe. Aside from these things, BLEEDING SISTERS has some redeeming qualities that are fairly impressive, mainly in the area of character development between Baylor Rumble and one of the sisters, Kimberly O'Brien. Both of the characters are alcoholics that will hit rock bottom when the chips are down. It is not until they find an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in an unusual place that they begin to strengthen up. Their angst is fairly convincing and it is some of the best writing that can be found in the story. The book may attract sailing enthusiasts and some mystery readers to this series, but it needs a bit of work. Less is more and a lot can be done with that. CATALINA KILLERS will be the next book in the group. Hopefully, it will get better; there is a lot of potential here.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, June 2003
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