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Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7)
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Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345424815
ISBN: 0345424816
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1998-11-28
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Product Release Date: 1998-11-28
Studio: Ballantine Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345424815
ISBN: 0345424816
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1998-11-28
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Product Release Date: 1998-11-28
Studio: Ballantine Books
Editorial Review of Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7)
Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss--until a corpse crashes through the ceiling with a grisly smile carved on its face.
The body is that of "Cajun Lily" Campbell, legendary singer and onetime girlfriend of club owner Earl Bonner. The cops are convinced that Bonner killed her--and Kincaid knows he didn't. Though he swore he was through with law forever, Kincaid descends into an underworld of gangs, drugs, Internet sex "clubs," and long-standing vendettas. And at the bottom, a killer waits, targeting Kincaid as the next to die with a smile on his face.
The body is that of "Cajun Lily" Campbell, legendary singer and onetime girlfriend of club owner Earl Bonner. The cops are convinced that Bonner killed her--and Kincaid knows he didn't. Though he swore he was through with law forever, Kincaid descends into an underworld of gangs, drugs, Internet sex "clubs," and long-standing vendettas. And at the bottom, a killer waits, targeting Kincaid as the next to die with a smile on his face.
Customer Reviews of Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Since I Don't Have You (slow and easy)
Review: Music is the language of love. Time is a cruel master; it keeps no secrets. The music in this complex suspense novel takes place in Tulsa at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium where the proprietor is landed with his worst nightmare, compliments of an old member of the group involved with crime in the jazz district on the North Side. Ben Kincaid has taken a sabbatical from his law practice to be himself as a jazz pianist. He was surprised to learn that his mother had been a blues singer with the group before he was born. He had the syncopation down pat, with the music from inside him; he was "in the groove" but was a bit slow letting the music take over as he performed with a black group in the jazz club.
Even though she had recovered, she was not the person she'd been before. A near death experience changes you, not 'weaker' but with a stubborn determination to act yourself without hesitation or consternation. Once, I thought I was a goner but that doctor was wrong. Five years later, with no doctor and only a strong spirit which would not give up made her a force not easy to deal with. Thomas Wolfe was right...you can't go home again. You can only go forward. Living in the past doesn't do anybody any good. You must put your painful episodes behind, and get on with life as it it or can be. You do what you have to do. But, sometimes memory plays tricks, as we see in this story.
The writer moves from one character to another, then back again, until we reach the conclusion to learn why things were played out on the stage and off. It is just a memory now, but here's how it played out: First, a singer who had appeared with the jazz group in their early years meets up with the wrong person to relive old times. They had made beautiful music together; but that too was all in the past now. All gone. She was no longer young, but was still radiant and time had not masked the beauty which was her birthright. She had still that elusive charm and trusted the wrong person. It was a shame she felt she had to paint herself with so much makeup to be presentable.
Chuck had moved in next door as the murderer was moving the carpet and almost felt the pocket knife on his throat. The good neighbor would never know how close he'd come to being a dead neighbor. He had killed before and would again. Eventually, something had to break when secrets are kept locked up in our memories. He transported her body to the jazz club where he was seen taking off his disguise in the restroom by one Tyrone Jackson. Talk about sweet music! This was a Coltrane original, a Gershwin rhapsody, and a B. B. King solo all set out in newsprint. It became known in the media as the Jazzland Slaying. He didn't like loose ends but when he had one, he knew what to do about it as he stroked the shiny silver serrated blade. It was his polished silver treasured weapon. The razor-sharp knife he liked to call Mr. Entertainment. He used it to carve smiles on his victims. At the catwalk, he tracks Ben into an unsafe position and told him who he really was and why he had sought revenge on Earl, embroidering the truth somewhat. He was the one and only Hoodini, the magician.
While Ben is in a coma in the hospital, one of the nurses talk with him incessantly to snap out of it as he is needed by those who love him. When all hope is given up, his eyes open and later he returns with flowers and chocolates for the nurse named Angela Tucker -- only to discover that no one with that name had ever worked there. I'd say that his guardian angel saved Ben for a return to the legal system and a new life with Christina.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Jazzed up Mystery
Review: Good, easy-to-read mystery that commences when a body is found in a jazz club on the night of the club's anniversary performance. The piano player is a former lawyer who is compelled to take on a case when the jazz club owner is charged with the murder, but did he do it or is he being framed?!? You'll have to read it to find out, but the writing is good, the characters pretty interesting, and there are few (while possible to anticipate given clues left by the author along the way) twists along the way to make it an interesting story.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Extreme Nerdness
Review: This is a good plot. Attorneys get burned out. And a lot stay with it, giving less intensity to their clients because they are filling up with more superficiality. So kudos to Ben Kincaid for stepping away. He wants to follow his dream, being a piano player in a jazz combo. But he wants to play . . . . folk music? Can there be a type of singing playing reciting protesting (gently) in America that is any more meaningless?
But it makes sense for Murder Defense Lawyer extraordinaire Ben Kincaid because he's SUCH A TOTAL WOOS. All I could think of was Opie, Ron Howard with hair as a kid, or the late Don Knotts, nerd extreme. Ben Kincaid raises the bar. How do these people like Christina, beautiful, caring, intelligent, loving, A WOMAN WITH NEEDS, DAMMIT, and Mike, the kick-butt Detective, put up with this guy? Heck with the bad guys. You want to kill him. The pages scream MERCY KILLING.
He has a big target on his head. Everyone picks on him because he's a magnet for such abuse. So I'm sitting in jail and I'm facing the death sentence. This is not the guy I want between me and Capital Punishment.
It's hard to get into a story where you neither like or respect the leading character. 3 stars. Larry Scantlebury
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not as good as the previous ones
Review: The previous books in the series were very good or excellent, but in this installment Bernhardt delivers an average book. It is still easy to read and entertaining, but there are some things missing. The most clear one is that there is no courtroom events in this "legal thriller". The other thing I didn't like was that the descriptions of the violence are too gory in some parts.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A new one found
Review: I enjoy finding what I call a new Author. Finishing this book I knew I had a new one. I will go back now and read all in the series. His plotting is great and he actually follows a story line that you can follow. The "coma paragraphs" are really great. I highly recommend this book.
Review Summary: Since I Don't Have You (slow and easy)
Review: Music is the language of love. Time is a cruel master; it keeps no secrets. The music in this complex suspense novel takes place in Tulsa at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium where the proprietor is landed with his worst nightmare, compliments of an old member of the group involved with crime in the jazz district on the North Side. Ben Kincaid has taken a sabbatical from his law practice to be himself as a jazz pianist. He was surprised to learn that his mother had been a blues singer with the group before he was born. He had the syncopation down pat, with the music from inside him; he was "in the groove" but was a bit slow letting the music take over as he performed with a black group in the jazz club.
Even though she had recovered, she was not the person she'd been before. A near death experience changes you, not 'weaker' but with a stubborn determination to act yourself without hesitation or consternation. Once, I thought I was a goner but that doctor was wrong. Five years later, with no doctor and only a strong spirit which would not give up made her a force not easy to deal with. Thomas Wolfe was right...you can't go home again. You can only go forward. Living in the past doesn't do anybody any good. You must put your painful episodes behind, and get on with life as it it or can be. You do what you have to do. But, sometimes memory plays tricks, as we see in this story.
The writer moves from one character to another, then back again, until we reach the conclusion to learn why things were played out on the stage and off. It is just a memory now, but here's how it played out: First, a singer who had appeared with the jazz group in their early years meets up with the wrong person to relive old times. They had made beautiful music together; but that too was all in the past now. All gone. She was no longer young, but was still radiant and time had not masked the beauty which was her birthright. She had still that elusive charm and trusted the wrong person. It was a shame she felt she had to paint herself with so much makeup to be presentable.
Chuck had moved in next door as the murderer was moving the carpet and almost felt the pocket knife on his throat. The good neighbor would never know how close he'd come to being a dead neighbor. He had killed before and would again. Eventually, something had to break when secrets are kept locked up in our memories. He transported her body to the jazz club where he was seen taking off his disguise in the restroom by one Tyrone Jackson. Talk about sweet music! This was a Coltrane original, a Gershwin rhapsody, and a B. B. King solo all set out in newsprint. It became known in the media as the Jazzland Slaying. He didn't like loose ends but when he had one, he knew what to do about it as he stroked the shiny silver serrated blade. It was his polished silver treasured weapon. The razor-sharp knife he liked to call Mr. Entertainment. He used it to carve smiles on his victims. At the catwalk, he tracks Ben into an unsafe position and told him who he really was and why he had sought revenge on Earl, embroidering the truth somewhat. He was the one and only Hoodini, the magician.
While Ben is in a coma in the hospital, one of the nurses talk with him incessantly to snap out of it as he is needed by those who love him. When all hope is given up, his eyes open and later he returns with flowers and chocolates for the nurse named Angela Tucker -- only to discover that no one with that name had ever worked there. I'd say that his guardian angel saved Ben for a return to the legal system and a new life with Christina.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Jazzed up Mystery
Review: Good, easy-to-read mystery that commences when a body is found in a jazz club on the night of the club's anniversary performance. The piano player is a former lawyer who is compelled to take on a case when the jazz club owner is charged with the murder, but did he do it or is he being framed?!? You'll have to read it to find out, but the writing is good, the characters pretty interesting, and there are few (while possible to anticipate given clues left by the author along the way) twists along the way to make it an interesting story.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Extreme Nerdness
Review: This is a good plot. Attorneys get burned out. And a lot stay with it, giving less intensity to their clients because they are filling up with more superficiality. So kudos to Ben Kincaid for stepping away. He wants to follow his dream, being a piano player in a jazz combo. But he wants to play . . . . folk music? Can there be a type of singing playing reciting protesting (gently) in America that is any more meaningless?
But it makes sense for Murder Defense Lawyer extraordinaire Ben Kincaid because he's SUCH A TOTAL WOOS. All I could think of was Opie, Ron Howard with hair as a kid, or the late Don Knotts, nerd extreme. Ben Kincaid raises the bar. How do these people like Christina, beautiful, caring, intelligent, loving, A WOMAN WITH NEEDS, DAMMIT, and Mike, the kick-butt Detective, put up with this guy? Heck with the bad guys. You want to kill him. The pages scream MERCY KILLING.
He has a big target on his head. Everyone picks on him because he's a magnet for such abuse. So I'm sitting in jail and I'm facing the death sentence. This is not the guy I want between me and Capital Punishment.
It's hard to get into a story where you neither like or respect the leading character. 3 stars. Larry Scantlebury
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not as good as the previous ones
Review: The previous books in the series were very good or excellent, but in this installment Bernhardt delivers an average book. It is still easy to read and entertaining, but there are some things missing. The most clear one is that there is no courtroom events in this "legal thriller". The other thing I didn't like was that the descriptions of the violence are too gory in some parts.
After deciding to leave his legal practice in the last book, Ben Kincaid starts playing the piano in a jazz group and is forced to go back to practice when a body drops on top of him during a performance. The the main suspect is Earl, who owns the place and has established a friendship with Ben, since the murdered victim is a former lover.
For those of you that follow the series there are a couple of interesting side stories going on with Jones, Christina and Mrs. Marmelstein.
Of course I will continue reading this series; at least the next book to see if the quality picks up again.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A new one found
Review: I enjoy finding what I call a new Author. Finishing this book I knew I had a new one. I will go back now and read all in the series. His plotting is great and he actually follows a story line that you can follow. The "coma paragraphs" are really great. I highly recommend this book.