Shut Your Eyes Tight – John Verdon
So yesterday I did it. I reached what I thought was an unreachable goal. When I finished Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon, I reached my goal of reading 60 books in 2017!
Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon is the second book in his Dave Guerney series. The main character in the book, Dave Guerney, is a retired New York City homicide detective. He is a gifted detective and is the most decorated detective in NYPD history.
An intriguing Case Comes to Dave
Fellow NYPD detective Jack Hardwick brings the case that forms the plot for Shut Your Eyes Tight to Dave. The case is four months old case and involves the beheading of a bride on her wedding day. Jack brings Dave the case because he thinks the police are moving in the wrong direction. And he believes the Dave the Super Detective can use his skills to solve the case.
Initially, the case seems to be a pretty open and shut. The new bride, of a noted psychologist, was the victim. While the killer appears to be a Mexican who came to work for the psychologist as a gardener and rose to the position of assistant to said psychologist. The Mexican was the last person to see the bride alive and he has now vanished!
But after for months the police are no closer to finding the killer, than the day of the murder. Hardwock believes there is much more to the case than do the two officers who are heading the investigation. He brought the case to Guerney for that reason . He believes that the great detective Guerney can solve the mystery.
Dave thinks the case is intriguing. His wife Madeleine sees it as a diruption of their new idyllic life. Despite Madeleine‘s objections, Dave decides to help the victim’s mother and investigate for two weeks. Then report what he found to the mother and the police.
Dave Finds Out the Case IS like an Onion
When Jack Hartwicks brings the case to Dave, he says the case was like an onion. The removal of each layer reveals something new. And that’s just what Dave’s investigating reveals.
As Dave investigates his discoveries turn the simple slam dunk case into the search for a serial killer! The question then becomes can he ever get to the center of the onion, before he or his wife are the necat victims!
Bottom Line
I am now a fan of Dave Gurney the character and John Versin the writer. I look forward to moving onto book # 3 Let the Devil Sleep. In fact I just checked the e-book editon out of my library!
Anyway I enjoy the characters that Verson has created, both Dave and Madeleine and the surrounding cast. I also enjoy the plots that Verdon has created. The storyline in Shut Your Eyes Tight was like an onion and each new discovery gave the case a new look until the final pages!
Goodreads Rating. 3.97 My Rating 4.0. So Check it Out!
