THE CHARLESTON-SAVANNAH VICTIMS CLUB

TOM TURNER

The Charleston-Savannah Victims Club, by veteran mystery writer Tom Turner, certainly lives up to its author's admirable reputation. Turner has the gift of painting a luminous landscape of his characters, plot, and dialogue. This talent makes all of Turner's books a pleasure to read.

The Charleston Savannah Vctims Club leads the reader down a homicide path for much of its length, then, like any good writer, Turner adds more spices to the pot and all of a sudden the reader is dealing with Russian spies, hit men and women, stolen art and anything else that makes a mystery compelling which is certainly an apt description of this book.

Turner combines the macho characteristics of his recurring homicide cop, Nick Janzek, with those of his more subtle, perhaps more intellectually gifted girlfriend and her sister, both private investigators. Like a good recipe, all the ingredients are there to make the book extremely appetizing and one more outstanding effort in Mr. Turner's long career of writing compelling, entertaining, and amusing mysteries set in Florida, his home base.