Two mysteries, life in a scary near-future America, and writing from people incarcerated in Minnesota jails. Could you ask for more eclectic reading? “Incel”: by Brian Lutterman (Oak Ridge Press, $18) And then he thought about Camryn Becket. While working on the case that had ended their respective careers – his in the FBI and hers in the CIA – they had connected when they had exposed wrongdoing by high officials.
Both believed that their brief personal relationship had resulted from the intensity of that harrowing experience. And they had agreed that their tenuous existence since then, amplified by warnings from the FBI to stay away from each other, made it impractical to pursue anything further. — from “Incel” Read the first 10 pages of Lutterman’s “Incel” and you think you’ve figured out what’s going on in this new thriller.
You would be wrong because his story has layers of surprises. It starts with murders of high-profile, beautiful career women who are getting threats from a group of men calling themselves ‘incels,’ involuntary celibates who protagonist Kevin Arneson describes as “Resentful, hate-filled dweebs who’ve struck out with women. Sometimes identified with white supremacy.
” Arneson and his former lover Camryn Becket investigate the murders after finding themselves at loose ends in Minneapolis. They’ve been fired by the CIA (Becket) and FBI (Arneson) because they uncovered dirty dealings at the highest levels of government. Af.