Flowering Judas: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
Written by Jane Haddam
Narrated by David Colacci
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Jane Haddam
Jane Haddam (1951–2019) was an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award–nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988). Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam’s best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam’s later novels include Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chester Morton disappeared twelve years ago, but his mother never gave up hope he would be found. He turns up, but dead and hanging from a billboard. In this twisty mystery, nothing can be taken at face value, and it takes someone like Gregor Demarkian to put the clues in the correct order. Red herrings are thrown in his path, and people are deliberately withholding vital information. Working backwards with the tenacity of a bulldog, Gregor uncovers the unlikely truth. Well plotted and well written, this audio version was superbly performed by David Colacci, which only added to its enjoyment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chester Ray Morton’s body is found, hung from a billboard near the entrance to Mattatuck-Harvey Community College – a billboard that’s asking the public’s help to find Chester Ray Morton. He’s been missing for twelve years and his toxic mother Charlene has kept the heat on local officials to find Chester or his body. Police commissioner Harold Androcoelho in Mattatuck (New York) is inept and underfunded, but he finds the money to hire Gregor Demarkian to consult with his department. Demarkian’s immediate assessment is that Morton’s death is not the simple suicide Androcoelho believes (or wishes) it to be. And everything he turns up in his investigation confirms that. The skeletal remains of a baby found in a backpack buried in a field seem to have some tie to the Morton disappearance if not his death. While he’s away in New York, back in Philadelphia, old George Tekemanian (age 99) is in the hospital. And Gregor would truly rather be there with him than in Mattatuck. But his wife Bennis convinces him that he’d just be in the way in the hospital and working will help him get his mind off George. And Bennis also hires a driver to accompany Gregor, who doesn’t drive, on this consultation. As usual, Ms. Haddam has concocted a complex plot and a cast of characters that is quirky – a homeless college English professor is among the quirkiest -- and, for the most part unlikable. And the city of Mattatuck has to be one of the oddest places he’s ever visited. It’s a small city believing itself to be a crime-free small town – and saddled with public officials who are more interested in saving a buck than providing services.Gregor Demarkian is such a white knight – honorable, honest, hard-working, professional – that when he arrives on the scene readers know that the baddies will get their just desserts and all will be right in the world. The writing is not the best – way too wordy and rambling – but the story and characters make up for that. An enjoyable and un-taxing read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gregor is called to a small town in NY to consult on a murder of a young man who disappeared 12 years before. His body has been found hanging off a billboard and it's clear to Gregor that the body had been moved after death. The local police are incompetents bragging up the lack of crime in their small town and spending stimulus money on GPS's and blue tooth instead of a coroner. Gregor has to call in the state police forensics for help much to the chagrin of the locals. Once the old owner of a construction company seeks Gregor out about the skeleton of a baby found in a backpack at his site, the case takes a whole turn.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you are a fan of the series you will want to read this one to keep up with the lives of all your favorite characters. Gregor appears a just a tad out of character here as he is quite anxious regarding one of his beloved friends on Cavangaugh Street. Still a good, complex mystery. Some of the characters introduced in the small town where the action takes place were a bit annoying and overdone but still a good addition to the lives of Gregor and his merry band of friends.If you have not tried Jane Haddam and the Gregor Demarkian mysteries and like a series that grows with its regular characters, be sure to give her a try. I would recommend going back to some of the earlier offerings in the extensive 26 book series to get a good basis for the character development. Haddam is always a delight and am looking forward to the next installment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Number 26 in the Gregor Demarkian of Philadelphia series.Once again, Demarkian is called into a small town, this one in New York State, to consult with the local police on a baffling death. At first, he’s just as happy to take the case, since Bennis, in the throes of remodeling a townhouse they’ve just bought at the end of Cavanaugh Street where they currently live, has covered every surface with samples--of carpeting, of bathroom fixtures, of counter surfaces, you name it. In order to take a shower, Demarkian has to empty the tub of samples of bathroom tiles. But all other thoughts vanish in the face of the collapse of his old friend, George Tenemakian, whose 100th birthday is just two weeks away. Frantic over George’s condition, Demarkian reluctantly goes to Mattatuck, New York, to meet not only a bizarre set of circumstances, but an equally bizarre set of characters, including the local police “commissioner”.Haddam’s Demarkian series can be of wildly varying quality; you never know what you’re going to get when you open a new installment in the series. But when Jane is good, she’s very very good, and this is one of her better ones. She’s a very formulaic writer; the first chapter always introduces the suspects and gives some of the back story. Almost always, the plot revolves around some social or other issue that is incensing Haddam at the moment. At first glance, it does appear that that element is absent from the book, but there is one character whose sole reason for existence is to highlight an injustice.Haddam’s writing in this book is in her usual distinctive style, and it is crisp and to the point. She always manages to come up with at least one lunatic (but believable) character wandering the streets unrestrained, and Mattatuck does so provide. The plot is a bit dodgy which weakens the book towards the end, but Flowering Judas has just about everything good that the followers of the series enjoy. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In a small town that isn't any more, an old missing persons case becomes a murder, and Gregor Demarkian is called in because the local head of police is in over his head. Much confusion ensues. Meanwhile, there are complications on Cavanaugh Street.Not one of the best in the series, but if you've been following the characters, don't skip this one.