Marshall Karp Cut, Paste, Kill

[Giovanni Gelati]

Hello!! I am going to say this right off the bat: If you enjoy or love character driven fiction, a little humor in your reading (okay maybe I should say smart aleck responses and sardonic humor), a good, fun,
mystery and a nice detective novel, then I have just the author for you. I
didn’t know the author existed until one of the nice local librarians pointed
him out to me. I know most of them (the librarians) a long time; they try to
direct me to neat stuff on occasion when I look forlorn and confused, and that
is just about always. I strive for consistency in all that I do. Being simple
minded comes in handy on occasion.

Marshall Karp is the author of more Lomax & Biggs Mysteries: Flipping Out, Bloodthirsty, and The Rabbit Factory. I plan on going back in time and tackling Flipping Out. I also plan to make sure
that I don’t miss anything else he is going to write. Here is a little bit from
inside the jacket of the novel so you can get the flavor of the novel: “When
Eleanor Bellingham-Crump a socialite responsible for the death of a
ten-year-old boy- turns up murdered on the bathroom floor of a Hollywood Hotel,
Lomax and Biggs are confronted with a crime of artistic brutality. Along with
the scissors sticking out of Eleanor’s lifeless body, the two detectives find a
meticulous scrapbook documenting a motive for vengeance in lurid detail.

As more bodies are discovered, each one connecting by the intricate scrapbooks left at the murder scenes, Lomax and Biggs go on the hunt for a vigilante stalking unpunished criminals. They must race to decode the
meaning behind the scrapbooks before the crafty avenger has time to cut and
paste the story of another kill.”

Cut, Paste, Kill is an excellent detective story that has a tremendous amount of humor, and heart. The tag teams of Lomax & Biggs are excellent foils and they keep the
laughs coming nonstop. Marshall Karp has found a way to keep the entire novel
equal though. An equal part wit, to an equal
part detecting. One does not overshadow the other; they complement each other.
That is what made this novel so interesting for me. The gags come hard and fast
and so does the action and plotline. The narrative is amazing and generally I
can’t say enough about how much I enjoyed this novel. Cut,Paste,Kill has all the right elements for me: good fast moving
storyline, excellent execution of it, I laughed a lot, and the loose ends were
all wrapped up together at novel’s end. Check this novel out, laugh a little,
have a good time, Cut, Paste, Kill is
what good character driven is all about.

Here is the link for the official Lomax & Biggs website: http://www.lomaxandbiggs.com/

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