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Split Seconds

Kevin Robinson

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

A Real Page Turner! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I meant to read the first couple of chapters before turning off the light and going to sleep, but SPLIT SECONDS just grabbed me and wouldn't let go. I read it straight though, and finally turned off my light at 3 a.m.! Stick Foster is a paraplegic newspaper reporter who doesn't let his wheelchair interfere with his life. He's not a superman or anything, just a smart, determined, and honorable guy who just won't quit. He reminded me of the kind of protagonists Dick Francis creates...people of character whom you'd love to have as friends and business associates. The whole cast of characters seemed very real to me, but sadly, Robinson killed off my favorite one!

I enjoyed the fast-paced plot about a computer hacker bent on creating a disaster for NASA, and the book's climax had my heart pounding, but I was just as fascinated by the nuts and bolts of Stick Foster's life in a wheelchair. I had a lot of misconceptions about that before reading this great mystery.

I can't wait to read MALL RATS, the second book in this series!

Editorial Review:

Wheelchair-bound journalist Nick "Stick" Foster smells a great story when a NASA computer expert is found enmeshed in a crab-line and Propjob the porpoise salvages an apparently unreasonable computer disk from the site. The victim's beautiful, edgy fiance' adds to the mystery, which accelerates when Stick gets close enough to the answer to be shot. Appealing to his network of friendly computer whizzes for help, Stick learns that someone has locked a virus into a NASA system, guaranteeing an unpreventable disaster.

Mall Rats

Kevin Robinson

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Wheelchair bound columnist Nick "Stick" Foster is about to marry his soul-mate-on-wheels, Samantha, when aged Martha Galliger sips the wedding punch she made herself and succumbs to a lacing of crack, PCP, and amphetamines. Suspicion falls on the wedding guests as well as on the folks from the mall (Stick's latest article assignment). Was it the mob-connected pizza maker, a shopkeeper in the federal witness relocation program, or one of the "mall rats," punk kids who hang out at the mall? When a security guard is killed ater identifying one of the "Rats" as a drug dealer the suspect hides out in the mall ducts until he can clear his name. It's up to Stick to solve the mystery and avoid becoming "chummy" with the alligators.

Mall Rats: A Stick Foster Mystery

Kevin Robinson

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

What's wrong with a wheelchair detective? 3 out of 5 stars.
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I haven't read this book and was trying to decide whether to purchase any of the Stick Foster mysteries, when I saw the review that seemed to think that having a detective in wheelchair is taking "PC" too far. HARDLY! People in wheelchairs do all kinds of things and it's about time we appeared in literature and other media! To make your main character disabled has nothing to do with PC. Maybe the author is in a wheelchair? What difference does it make if the character is too? Now, if ALL the characters were disabled, then that would a little much. Life is filled with diversity, why not our novels?

Two stars at best 2 out of 5 stars.
0 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The writing is gimmicky, as is the plot. In the age of political correctness, we now have a detective in a wheelchair. Why not make him a gay Cuban, too? Perhaps that might add some interesting things to the story.

I don't recommend this novel; if you want real mystery, read P.D. James or Arthur Conan Doyle, and not this drivel. You're better off in the long run.

Editorial Review:

Wheelchair-bound reporter and sleuth Stick Forster becomes embroiled in a murder investigation when one of the young "mall rats" he has befriended becomes implicated in the killing of a guest at his own wedding.

A Matter of Perspective

Kevin Robinson

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Legal & Lethal 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Stick Foster takes on the legal fraternity in this third, and best-to-date adventure. Stick undertakes the investigation of a murder within a dysfunctional plaintiff's personal injury firm. As always, Robinson's writing is top notch. The scenes in and around the law firm are absolutely authentic. The courtroom scenes are far more realistic than Grisham! I highly recommend this to, not only fans of legal thrillers, but to all mystery fans.

An excellent third in the series 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Kevin's obviously built on his experience and feedback from his first two novels, researched, and come away with a nicely rounded third in the series. I hope there are more.
Again, we have 2 1/5 reviews with no content and lots of venom. Hmm.

Editorial Review:

For his third roll on stage, wheelchair-bound stick Foster, A Florida journalist attends a fancy shindig at the law firm his wife works for when the seemingly healthy senior partner drops dead. The more Stick probes, the more complicated and murderous the case becomes. Shark-hungry lawyers, jealous lovers, and a big-money personal injury suit muddy the waters. Luckily, Stick and his odd coterie of computer hackers and mall rats are able to ramp up their collective skills with their usual eccentric e'lan.