The Commissioner’s concern and his request of Bennett appear even more justified as the Teacher next strikes by murdering an obnoxious maitre d’ at a fancy New York Twenty-One Club. The Commissioner deems Bennett’s experience with the Catastrophic Response Unit as critical to leading the investigation. This time, Bennett has a house full of sick children while facing the multiple murders of “The Teacher.”ĭespite the sick children, Bennett accepts the Police Commissioner’s request to lead the investigation of a murder of a clerk at a fancy Ralph Lauren store that may be related to a woman that was pushed onto a subway track. As in the prior book, Bennett, a widower father of ten adopted children, faces the difficult challenges of his New York City police responsibilities along with the obligations and desires of raising his children. Despite the two year gap in the publication of the two books, the action in the book takes place just a few months later than Step on a Crack. Run For Your Life, the second book to feature New York City detective Michael Bennett is a great follow-up and even better read than Step on a Crack (2007). One last time, he checked the recipient boxes to make sure the address for the New York Times was correct. He shook the Treo out of his damp suit and blooped it on.Īt the bottom of his mission statement, below “Best Wishes,” he typed across the glowing screen: “The Teacher.” “Erica, you finally did one useful thing,” he said softly. That was it-the perfect name he’d been looking for! Things were nice and quiet now, except for the hiss of the cracked radiator and the soft splattering of the lawn pop-ups.
He managed to switch off the ignition around the deployed air bag, then squeezed himself out of the seat.
(Reviewed by Chuck Barksdale March 1, 2009) ( Jump down to read a review of Step on a Crack)
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