YOU ONLY DIE TWICE

Barbara Caruso has fun relating the danger, mystery, perky humor, and clever plot twists in another reliably entertaining Edna Buchanan thriller. For the past ten years, gruff businessman R.J. Jordan has been imprisoned on death row for the murder of his socialite wife, Kaithlin, even though her body was never found. Then Kaithlin's body washes up on a Florida beach, revealing that she has been killed only hours before. A bitter R.J. is freed from jail, but crime reporter and regular Buchanan protagonist Britt Montero is confronted with the resulting questions: Where was Kaithlin Jordan all those years when her husband was in prison? Why did she allow the world to think him a murderer? And who finally did kill her? Caruso keeps things moving with good pacing and interesting vocal characterizations as the answers to these questions are revealed. J.P.M. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 02/ JAN 03]