2008-05-16 Good but an obvious ending

`Drop Shot' is the second book in the Myron Bolitar series, written by Harlan Coben. The story begins when during a big match at the US Open, a tennis star is gunned down and killed. The lead suspect is the player who was playing on the main court during the shooting. The suspect is also Myron's client, so he goes on the hunt for the killer, getting on the nerves of everyone involved on his way, which leads him to an older murder from six years ago.

I recently read the first book in the series, Deal Breaker, and absolutely loved it and started reading this immediately afterwards and although the story was fast paced and exciting, with some excellent characters and some wonderful and witty dialogue, I had guessed who the killer was and what the twist was about 100 pages into the book, so everything that was happening was just building up to what I had quite easily worked out at the start. This is a shame as, like I said, it is a very well written book from one of the best US crime writers in recent years. There is still a lot of twists and surprises that I didn't see coming, some which did shock me, but I was nearly screaming at the page for Myron to realise what was happening here as it was so obvious.

I'm still going to give this book 4 out of 5 stars as it was a very enjoyable read that I flew through in no time and was genuinely hooked from the opening page, but it was just way too predictable to give it the full 5 star rating. I look forward to reading the rest in the series and just hope that they are a little harder to work out next time.