"Don't Look Twice"

"Don't Look Twice" is the second novel in Andrew Gross' Detective Ty Hauck series and I found it just as exciting as his first, "The Dark Tide".  To learn more about Andrew Gross go to www.andrewgrossbooks.com or www.myspace.com/andrewgross books.

Detective Ty Hauck has taken his daughter, Jessie, to an Exxon station  convenience store that he likes to frequent so they can make purchases before they head out on his skiff for a final jaunt in preparation for taking it out of the water for the winter.  As they wait in line to pay, a man in a green down vest with his arms full of soda waves them ahead of him in the line.  Ty sees a red truck jerk to a stop outside right in front of them and the heavily tinted passenger window rolls down.  When he sees a man leaning out with a gun extended, Ty throws his daughter to the ground and covers her body with his own and yells for everyone to get down just as the shooting starts.

When it's all over, the man in the green vest is dead and others injured and Jessie is in shock with the dead man's blood all over her.  As Ty and his team begin their investigation into the shooting, what seems to be a straight forward motive turns out to be a red herring and they will find many more red herrings along the way to learning the truth and seeking justice.

Ty sends Jessie to the hospital then to her mother's while he's in the throes of the investigation.  His most recent girlfriend, Karen, is in Florida where her dad is gravely ill with Parkinson's.  Ty's brother, Warren, who he has very little contact with, invites him and Jessie for Thanksgiving but, when that doesn't work out, he shows up unexpectedly on Ty's doorstep.  As the two brothers reminisce about the past and reconnect, the investigation is ongoing and Ty also receives a very lucrative and interesting job proposition but, with his mind focused on finding a killer, he puts the offer on the back burner.

In the meantime, there are more killings and, as they identify the shooters, they end up dead, too.  Ty has to discover what is going on and who is behind all these killings.  Just when Ty and his team think they're ready to break the investigation wide open, someone else dies.  Are the deaths random or is there a pattern?  pazt