Freaky Deaky

There's no such thing as a bad Elmore Leonard novel, but inevitably, some of them have to be better than others, and to my mind, this book is not as successful as most of his other efforts. As virtually every reader of crime fiction knows, Leonard's principal strengths are the characters he invents......more

Only Elmore Leonard could make damn dirty hippies somewhat entertaining. Chris Mankowski is a Detroit cop in the late ‘80s who transfers from the bomb squad to sex crimes. His first case is a feisty young actress named Ginger (a/k/a Greta) who was sexually assaulted by alcoholic millionaire Woody Ric......more

I sometimes wonder if Leonard is basically re-casting the same novel over and over again. Oh, the score or scheme is always a bit different, but it's the characters that seem the same, but with a few twists added. That's not criticism, it's just just that I sense that encountered similar types such......more

It's like how souffles are these flawless, light concoctions with complex flavors and it seems like they should be simple but they're actually one of the more difficult things to make. That's Elmore Leonard. Freaky Deaky is a pile-up of suspense and comedic brilliance, as a cop moving from working wi......more

Freaky Deaky begins with three major characters who appear at first in pairs of alternating chapters: Chris Mankowski, a Detroit cop who is leaving the bomb squad for a different assignment; and Robin Abbott and Skip Gibbs, aging hippie radicals scheming to use their anarchic skills in more financia......more