<![CDATA[The Rabbit Factory]]>

false <![CDATA[The Rabbit Factory]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178726829m/826466.jpg 826466 7 About 30 pages into The Rabbit Factory you will find yourself hoping that the book's author Marshall Karp is at home typing. He has created two LAPD cops, Mike Lomax and his partner Terry Biggs, who are smart, drop-dead funny (especially Terry), and as irreverent as two guys can be. Karp has also written a ripping good story, not counting on buddy-cop banter to carry the day. Mike Lomax's wife, Joanie, died of cancer six months before the action begins, after a long time trying to have a family. Instead of leaving little replicas of herself, she leaves letters, which Mike opens on the 18th of every month, the anniversary of her death. His father, Big Jim, loved Joanie very much but wants to see Mike get on with his life. These guys love each other a lot and the dialogue that Karp gives them is both sharp and tender. Terry Biggs met his wife, Marilyn, who was the paramedic called when he was an "Officer Down." That meeting is so funny you have to read it to believe it. <blockquote>One thing, as they say, led to another, and despite the fact that Marilyn had seven-year-old twin daughters, and a third, age five, Terry signed on for the whole package. And that's how a guy from the Bronx winds up living in Sherman Oaks with a wife and three teenage Valley girls.</blockquote> The setting of much of the action is "Familyland," a Disneyland clone, conceived of by the late Dean Lamaar, who, like Disney, started out as an animator. His creations, Rambunctious Rabbit, Slaphappy Puppy, McGreedy the Moose, and others are now big family favorites and the little cartoon studio is a global conglomerate. It has been recently sold to the Japanese, after faltering receipts, and there are plans afoot to open a theme park in Las Vegas. That opening is just months away when an employee playing Rambunctious Rabbit is murdered on the premises. Not good for the corporate image. Another murder takes place, and another, and it quickly becomes obvious that someone has it in for Lamaar's enterprises. Mike and Terry are under tremendous pressure from Ike Rose, CEO of Lamaar, to keep the whole mess under wraps, and an equal amount of pressure from their Chief to "get it solved." They work smart and long and hard to uncover a conspiracy, finding a big surprise at the end of the search. Marshall Karp is a refreshing addition to the suspense, satire, mystery genre. His two Detectives are irresistible. --Valerie Ryan 812194 28 4 2006 The Rabbit Factory total:159|5:46|4:64|3:40|2:7|1:2| 159 622 251 44 5 1 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 04:03:55 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 05:38:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun May 04 06:04:14 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 07:08:41 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 06:04:14 -0700 2008 there many twists and turns that sometimes i had to read and rere...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 11:35:41 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:35:55 -0700 2009
Karp writes like a master of the lighter side of the detective/murder mystery genre already, and yet this is his first. Lomax and Briggs are instantly likeable. Hilarious jokers, family men, or tough detectives, you are instantly pulled into t...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 31 17:30:08 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 17:32:07 -0800 2008 The Rabbit Factory, his first Lomax & Biggs novel.

I didn't know what to expect from it -- but I know I generally like mystery novels. This was outstanding for two reasons. It was a great myst...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 09 09:07:15 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 10:48:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 28 07:03:36 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 07:05:13 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 20:09:27 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 20:14:21 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 17:36:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 15:34:58 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 17:36:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:58:51 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 09:06:18 -0800 2009
The sarcastic humor between the detectives was great! and they dished it out to everyone they came into contact with!

I thought that Mr. Lamaar had been murdered but what a great twist to find out he was still alive! well for ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 30 06:56:56 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 06:58:04 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 14:07:41 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 18:35:33 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 21:34:21 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 13:02:12 -0700 2009
Good call, Brenda!
I hope to read more ab...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 30 08:18:36 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 08:18:58 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 11 12:53:02 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 12:54:15 -0700 2007 Karp, Marshall – 1st in series
MacAdam Cage, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN: 1596921749
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