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BE MINE
by Rick Mofina
Pinnacle, June 2004
344 pages
$6.99
ISBN: 0786015268


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Molly Wilson is a reporter for a San Francisco paper and an on-air personality for a local news program discussing crime in the city. She is nowhere near to settling down and she just wants to live life. She has a strong effect on men and she wants to continue looking.

At the beginning of the book she is ready to dump her latest squeeze but is stood up on their date. She decides to go to his home and give him a piece of her mind -- unfortunately it is his that she winds up seeing. He has just been murdered and she is in shock.

This is a personal case for the SFPD because he was one of their own. What Molly does not know is that someone from her past is obsessed with her, wanting him all to himself. He will kill all obstacles that dare stand in his way until Molly learns the truth from him. She belongs to him, nobody else.

The one thing that surprised me while reading this book was that it was written by someone with previous publishing experience having had some of his other works in print. This novel reads like an amateur either doing a class project or following a how-to book in writing a police procedural-type novel wrote it, not a professional.

It was hard to enjoy this novel when similar plots have been seen in other places. There was an episode of THE EQUALIZER, HUNTER, and MAGNUM PI with similar storylines. A woman in jeopardy (except that instead of being a reporter, she is a radio psychologist) is being stalked by someone from her past, and the person doing the stalking will wind up being the person she least expects, but readers know it from a mile away becomes the character follows formula by remaining inconspicuous. There is little, if any, originality with this story.

There are no loose ends because everything is tied up nicely. Too nicely. Readers will have to work hard in suppressing their groans once the villain's fate occurs just like in a bad 1980s movie. The main weakness this book has is that it is supposed to be part of a series featuring a reporter named Tom Reed and a police detective named Walt Sydowski. They did not make an impact worth noticing and the female jeopardy (femjep) has been way overdone. The book turned out to be a major disappointment.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, August 2004

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