Beyond Recognition

Veteran homicide detective Lou Boldt is called onto the scene of a house fire, where the flames had been so fearsome that none of the firefighters had ever experienced anything like it. In tandem with profiler Daphne Matthews, Boldt is determined to smoke out the vicious arsonist, who strikes again......more

Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews were on a quest to find a serial arsonist and with the help of a little boy name Ben they were able to bring the arsonist down. Dale Hull excellent storytelling made my heart race during the final action scenes.......more

It is very interesting to see how the clues add up to reveal the bad guy. I was disappointed at the end of the big story, but the most important one was between Boldt and his wife.......more

This was an excellent police procedural. Although my 2012 sensibilities found some of the writing almost anachronistic in terms of the technology (the book was written in 1998, pagers were still in use, cell phones and laptops were still new, DNA wasn't even mentioned in the evidence gathering), it......more

In this genre, for me, there is John Sandford and there is everybody else. Ridley Pearson's Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews series is really the only one that truly stands along side the Prey books. I've recently given the series a re-read and if you have the chance, I highly recommend them. Pearson creat......more