Monday 8 June 2015

Book Review: Officially Dead. Richard Prescott

This book talks about a failed robbery. The main characters are Collin and Julie Fenton, a couple who work on their own Informatics company; and John and Linda Bentley, apparently a common couple, they had a hard past (he was a thief and she was abandoned by her mother).
One night, Collin Fenton went to a pub and met the Bentley family. He and John were indentical and because of that, Linda decided to get closer with Collin to prepare the perfect alibi for the "perfect robbery". By the other side, the Fenton's company didn't produced enough and had many debts. That's why Collin accepted to help the Bentleys to make the robbery, but Julie didn't know that.
Unfortunately the plan went wrong: Collin had an accident and died as John Bentley, so now the Bentleys could make the robbery without any danger.
But there was a witness in the accident, Mark Ashwood. When Collin died he told Mark: "Tell Julie I am sorry". He went to the Bentleys house and discovered that Bentley widow's name was Linda.
From this point of the story, Mark met Julie and solved the case. Then, they started living together. After the robbery, the Bentleys escaped to Spain. Finally, seven years past and they were arrested.

I didn't feel identified with any of the scenes of the book, but I think it is a good novel from the point of view of detective narration. I recommend it to everyone who likes this kind of novels, with action, investigations and a happy end.

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