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Title: The Deceivers by Robert J. Aiello ISBN: 0-88739-187-7 Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A great suspense thriller
Comment: The two assassins caught up with the fleeing Marcos in Pittsburgh's Point State Park. One of the individuals smiles as he shoots Marcos at point blank range. Following orders, he next decapitates his intended victim.

Veteran of over two decades on the force, law enforcement official Thomas Santucci cannot believe the police report on the decapitation killing. The police draw even less logic out from the killer's calling card left at the scene, a note stating "THE STARS GRIEVE FOR THE LOST ONE". The victim turns out to be a psychic advisor.

With the nature of the culprit's calling card and the dead man's occupation, Thomas knows he and the police department need special help on this homicide investigation. He decides to bring in former high school classmate, internationally famous, but now retired, mentalist, Grant Montgomery, who has helped on previous cases. Of course, Grant agrees to help. However, he is unaware what he is about to become involved in from a deadly amoral killer who will not blink if the mentalist is eradicated and an even less moral politician.

Don't be deceived, THE DECEIVERS is a strong suspense drama that never eases off the throttle until the climax is completed. The story line is fast-paced and exciting although some subplots end a bit too simplisticly. Grant is a great character deserving of future starring roles. The support cast enhances the plot with insight into Grant and the city of Pittsburgh. In his debut tale, Robert Aiello shows he has the right stuff to become a major player in the suspense genre.

Harriet Klausner

Rating: 5
Summary: The New Detective Hero: Power of the Mind
Comment: In a detective book that begins with a grisly murder, you'd expect blood and guts and gore galore ... but from the pen of Robert Aiello, you better get use to the unexpected. Aiello brings us a new detective hero: Grant Montgomery, imagination whose talent for cracking a murder mystery lies not with his brawn, but with his brain.

Aiello's first foray into the world of suspense fiction centers on the unusual background of an equally unusual protagonist. His hero, Grant Montgomery, isn't a retired army officer, CIA agent or hard-boiled private eye. Instead, he is a retired mentalist who knows that mentalism is phoney, and knows further how to use his own expertise to expose a fraud. When a well-known paranormal winds up dead in the middle of Pittsburgh's Point State Park with a cryptic note attached to his corpse, the Pittsburgh police call in Montgomery to tap his background in an effort to solve the case.

The result is a fast-paced, exciting read that wanders through a labyrinth of puzzles, false leads and dead ends to an unpredictable and surprizing conclusion that will leave you with a faint grin and an "Aha!" Along the way, there are a series of new twists among the characters that haunt the pages of our mystery novels: the honest cop, the ego-manical politician, the gullible dowager; and oh yes, Grant Montgomery's love interest, the dowager's leggy, attractive (and conveniently unattached) daughter. The result of their interactions and Montgomery's expertise is an irresistable tale of deceit, intrigue and good old-fashioned detective work.

If you love the mystery genre - and you're looking for a new and different kind of hero and a new and different kind of story - pick up "The Deceivers," and get set for a crackerjack of a ride.

Rating: 5
Summary: "Novel Moves Faster Than the Speed of Thought"
Comment: "In . . . this fast-paced suspense novel - the author's debut as a fiction writer - Aiello aims to get the reader's heart racing. . . Aiello's succinct, page-turner style features cliff-hangar chapter conclusions. . . Grant Montgomery is destined for a long shelf-life. . . Aiello wields words with power, and the descriptive narrative surrounding murders is unsettling." Courtest of The Tribune-Review of Greensburg and Pittsburgh, PA.