Joe heads for the coast in murderous pursuit of Amy, a girl he deemed the latest great-love-of-his-life until she robbed him and fled to LA. Though he has damnable luck finding her, he quickly accumulates a coterie of La La land oddballs, all of them deftly skewered by Kepnes's up-to-the-minute pop culture driven prose. And once again, Joe finds love.....or literally Love, as in Love Quinn, daughter of grocery chain millionaires and exactly Joe's type....perpetually sexually aroused. Unfortunately for Joe, Love comes equipped and joined at the angst with her worthless twin brother Forty, a coked-up wastrel who fancies himself a film biz player.
Even if you haven't read the first book, you'll quickly realize that Joe, who's like Matt Damon's Tom Ripley crossed with a meaner Woody Allen, won't long tolerate any poor soul he judges an impediment to his happily-ever-after with love....and Love. A fresh body count begins, but author Kepnes, a brilliant plotting sadist, enjoys hurling multiple curveballs at Joe, reveling in every stunning reversal-of-fortune she can throw at him. (Lovers of the first book will roar at another of Joe's frying-pan-to-fire visits to Little Compton, Rhode Island, this time to retrieve that embarrassing DNA sample he foolishly left behind.)
Loaded with cameos from Hollywood stars, a gaudy and grotesque side trip to Vegas and the expected string of...uh....well, 'Hidden Bodies', this book's another fast funny spin through one of BQ's favorite theme parks, Psycho-World.....(only the T-shirts and caps are missing.) You might end up begging for a third book louder than Joe Goldberg's victims beg for their lives......4 Stars (****)
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