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In See You Next Tuesday<\/a><\/em>, former US FBI agent Ken Harris has brought back his entertaining private investigator Steve Rockfish and his young assistant\u2014now partner\u2014Jawnie McGee. This is the second of a series, following his debut with The Pine Barrens Stratagem<\/a><\/em> earlier this year. In this novel, Jawnie has passed her PI exam, and the two of them have established a bare-bones office in Linthicum Heights, Maryland, just south of Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When this fast-moving story begins, the duo is faced with three separate quandaries. Most puzzling is the yellow Nissan Xterra parked across the street with a woman in it who appears to be spying on their office. Most annoying is their new client, the wealthy Claudia Coyne, who\u2019s convinced her husband Roan is stepping out on her and insists they find out who the floozy is. And, most alarming, Rockfish\u2019s father Mack is rushed to the hospital with a possible heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his father in the hospital, Rockfish bequeaths the Coyne case to Jawnie and spends time with his father, whose heart is fine, but he\u2019s stressed out, having lost $17,000 in a phony investment scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jawnie begins following Roan Coyne on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the nights he regularly arrives home late. At first, his actions seem completely above-board, even admirable. On Tuesday evenings, he buys dozens of McDonald\u2019s meals and distributes them to the homeless; on Thursdays, he staffs a soup kitchen. Following these charitable endeavours, he attends meetings in the basement of Allison\u2019s Adult Super Store. When Jawnie peeks in a window, the gathering looks to her like some kind of self-help or religious session. She suspects something shady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jawnie trips over a woman camped out in the alley behind the adult store. Some cash waved around convinces the woman\u2014Lynn\u2014to attend the next meeting. One thing they figure out quickly is the several plays on the phrase \u201cSee You Next Tuesday,\u201d a bit of risqu\u00e9 wordplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rockfish is determined to get his father\u2019s money back and follows a sketchy clue to the scammers base of operations. When he and Jawnie both turn up in the parking lot behind Allison\u2019s Adult Super Store, they realize they\u2019re working on different dimensions of the same case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in the earlier book, Rockfish and Jawnie\u2019s relationship is a work-in-progress. He admires her skills with the computer and with people, and she admires his ability to keep going, in the face of seemingly impossible odds. I like watching them work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynn definitely adds to the team\u2019s strengths and Rockfish\u2019s long-time friend Raffi, who\u2019s also brought on board, will always be a wild card. Destroy and repair describes Rockfish\u2019s relationship with the authorities, and he\u2019s constantly skating somewhere out there on the thin ice. The humorous elements and overall entertainment value of this sequel suggests author Harris has found a winning formula for his cast of interesting characters, and we can look forward to more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In See You Next Tuesday, former US FBI agent Ken Harris has brought back his entertaining private investigator Steve Rockfish and his young assistant\u2014now partner\u2014Jawnie McGee. This is the second of a series, following his debut with The Pine Barrens … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Entertaining private eye mystery involving ambitious financial scammers who tangle with the wrong victims.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[440,52,54,126,359],"tags":[1965,2010],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-crime","category-detective","category-reading-2","category-review","tag-ken-harris","tag-see-you-next-tuesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9950,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}