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The third Wyatt Hunt mystery is also, by far, the best. Whereas The Hunt Club (2006) and Treasure Hunt (2010) were rather long on story and short on character development, this new novel supplies Hunt, the San Francisco private investigator, with a rich and complex past, turning him from a relatively standard-issue mystery protagonist into a fully realized human being. The story begins with Hunt receiving a text message from an anonymous sender: “How did your mother die?” This is a question steeped in mystery: Hunt is adopted, with no idea who his birth parents are. Determined to find out what the message means and who sent it, Wyatt soon learns the shocking truth about his own life. This is one of the more interesting mystery-novel themes—a hero uncovering the secrets of his own past—and Lescroart gets everything he can out of it. The story is suspenseful and surprising, full of twists and turns, but, even better, Hunt finally becomes a protagonist worthy of comparison with Lescroart’s other series characters, Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky. Readers who enjoyed the first two Hunt novels will definitely want to read this one, and Lescroart fans who found those books a bit on the thin side will change their tune this time.
HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Lescroart is a consistent crime-fiction A-lister, and the growth of the Hunt series will further solidfy his status. — David Pitt
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