Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. The mystery is wafer-thin and the solution unsatisfying, but the cool, cerebral ex-POTUS is a reasonable stand-in for Sherlock Holmes, and his ex-VPOTUS, by turns appealingly modest and laughably self-satisfied, is in some ways a better Watson than the good doctor himself.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Shaffer takes the edge off his last satire ( The Day of the Donald, 2016)-the nicest touch here is the failure of a single character to mention the name of Obama’s successor-and conservatives are as unlikely to be offended by the unlikely sleuths as liberals are to be soothed or cheered. Together the salt-and-pepper duo, taking a leaf from the film My Fellow Americans, swap aphorisms, indulge in high-speed car chases, and occasionally do some actual detection. Selena Esposito, who’s downright hostile, by opening his own investigation. Even though “there was no love lost between Barack and me,” Obama keeps turning up at Biden’s home, sharing sensitive information with him, and goading him to challenge Wilmington cops Detective Dan Capriotti, who’s unenthusiastic, and Lt. But he does enjoy an intermittent alliance with the still-powerful Obama. True, he has no experience as a detective and scarcely any more as a logical thinker. When Grace Donnelly tells Biden that her father took out a $1 million insurance policy shortly before his death but the company, saying they suspect suicide, doesn’t want to pay out, Biden vows to get to the bottom of Finn’s death. Now Finn is dead, inexplicably run over by a train as he lay unmoving on the tracks. His favorite was Finn Donnelly, even before the stroke his wife, Darlene, suffered brought them even closer together. Though they’ve both been put out to pasture, Barack Obama and Joe Biden team up once again to solve a murder practically in the former vice president’s backyard.ĭuring all those years commuting between Delaware and Washington, Biden got to know every single Amtrak conductor.
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