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Deception

by Randy Alcorn



      Randy Alcorn has a unique and very entertaining "voice". He is among the best in the Christian Fiction genre. The characters in Deception are vividly drawn and feel real. I loved Ollie Chandler's character!

Deception is not only an intriguing suspense novel, it is also hilarious and full of humor. Randy Alcorn has a writing style which leaves readers completely engrossed in the story. Deception is intriguing and immensely entertaining! "Messin' with Ollie Chandler is like wearin' cheese underwear down rat alley."

Detective Ollie Chandler is a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective. He is a legend at Portland's PD for his off-beat methods of solving crimes and his pit-bull determination to get the job done. He is smart-mouthed, opinionated, stubborn, outrageous, difficult to deal with and always stepping over the line.

William Palatine, a Professor at PSU, is found brutally murdered in his home. Ollie is assigned to the case and is being shadowed by Clarence Abernathy, a reporter with the Oregon Tribune. At the scene, Ollie finds incriminating evidence against himself. It appears someone is setting him up to take the fall for the professor's murder. What bothers Ollie most is that he can't remember the night the professor was murdered because he was in the midst of a drunken blackout. The other thing bothering him is the evidence suggests the killer is a cop. If anyone is going to know how to pull off a murder and not get caught it's a homicide detective.

It was a first for Ollie to add his own name to the suspect list. Since he couldn't account for the night of the murder, he'd lied about his alibi and removed incriminating evidence from a crime scene. Not to mention eating the victim's snicker bar at the scene. He had no other alternative than to not only investigate his fellow homicide detectives but to investigate himself right along with them.

Things aren't always as they appear and it's important to follow the evidence wherever it may lead. Ollie begins to unravel this rather complicated puzzle, bit by bit. He discovers a previous case he'd investigated that he believed to be an open and shut case was a dead wrong conclusion. Nothing that morning was as it appeared to be.

The Book

Multnomah Books/A Division of Random House, Inc.
April 17, 2007
Hardcover
1-59052-616-3 / 978-159526163
Suspense/Christian
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The Reviewer

Connie Harris
Reviewed 2007
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