The Electra File

Jay Leicester #5

by J.C. Simmons

In this new and moving novel, Jay Leicester, Simmons' celebrated Mississippi Aviation Consultant/Private Investigator, is hired by his friend, Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, to help find his missing sailboat. The boat is found scuttled offshore with two bodies aboard. When identified, it is determined they are associated with the new gaming industry that has reshaped the coastline and boosted the economy, but not without consequences. A backdrop to all this is the mayoral election in Biloxi, Mississippi and the killing of one of the candidates who openly opposed the gambling industry and promised to eliminate it if elected. While the murder points to the people running the casinos, it is not gambling that killed the politician. This angered those involved due to the negative publicity and the millions it could cost them. They help Leicester solve who killed the two people found aboard the sailboat in return for a pipeline to the Chief of Police in Biloxi who is a close friend. One of the victims on the sailboat was a high-ranking casino manager visiting from New Jersey. A must read for any Mystery/Thriller aficionado.

Genres: Mystery

180 pages, Hardcover

First published August 3, 2003

Reviews

[Marell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the Travis McGee books by John D.MacDonald. These books take me back, they are a great read. Enough description to satisfy and yet send you checking to see if the place, artist, or thing is real.
Enough of a mystery to keep you enthralled. Short enough not to get you bogged down and great enough you don't have to read in order. Each one stands alone. My personal idea of a great series. I love books I can read like this. Where I can read any one of them and enough them without saying to myself, "Oh well so and so dies in two books in the future" They average around 200 pages each which is my all time favorite length for lines, offices, and before bedtime reading. Though I do have a hard time making myself shut it down.

Jay Leicester is a believable, I know that person sort of character. I love both planes and boats, so he got me hooked right off the bat. Hemingway, he ain't; but I would stack Jay next to Travis anytime.