Psych: A Fatal Frame of Mind by William RabkinMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm frequently confused when I reread Psych books. I hasten to note that I do not mean confused as to what occurs in the book, but, instead, confused as to how I never seem to recognize the books as I read them (for the most part, with exceptions both for books and scenes). Did I read this one previously? Apparently I did since I marked it as being read in 2009. Soooo.....
Right, so. Probably this and other books in the series are easier/better read by those who watched and enjoyed the television series Psych (which isn't always the case with media-tie-in books, some can be read and loved by any random reader).
This specific book involves involves Gus dragging Shawn to go help someone Shawn didn't want to take on as a client. A professor of art. While both are wearing tuxes (which, if you know the show, must be very odd to see since Shawn is the kind to wear sneakers with blue jeans and a tux t-shirt instead of a suit), the two arrive at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Only to find a long line of police cars. Not to provide security for the high-society event (though there is a high-society event being held there), but because a murder victim had been found inside the museum (murder? how can I leap to that conclusion? Well, there is a sword plunged into the body in a way someone couldn't do to themselves).
The dead body belongs to a museum curator - whose specific job that night had been to reveal a mystery painting, famous but unseen by the public, but he died before the revealing. The professor who Gus and Shawn were there to help provides some mild help to the police. Mostly so he can get a close look at the painting.
One thing leads to another and before you can say 'boo' . . . . it's the next morning and nothing much has happened, and Shawn and Gus are still in the tuxes. While the professor is in the interrogation room - not as a suspect, but as a 'helper' type - to explain the painting (the sword in the painting matched the sword that had been plunged into the dead person). Eventually, after everyone became very bored, the professor accidentally pulls the murder weapon out of his coat pocket, takes the detective (you know, the normal male foil to Shawn - Lassie) hostage, and escapes.
Eventually Shawn and Gus join the professor as fugitives from justice.
Good solid book. Slight level of humor. Vaguely interesting mystery. Kind of fizzled out at the end, but eh, whatever.
Rating: 4.27
July 20 2018
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