Praise for Cut, Paste, Kill

In Karp’s excellent fourth mystery featuring LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs (after 2009’s Flipping Out), the pair look into the stabbing death of British citizen Eleanor Bellingham-Crump, who escaped prosecution for killing a 10-year-old boy while driving drunk by virtue of her husband’s diplomatic immunity. The killer left a scrapbook at the scene detailing the circumstances of Bellingham-Crump’s crime. The FBI fills the detectives in on two other murders, apparently by the same killer, a vigilante targeting criminals who managed to evade justice. The investigators luck out when a lead takes them to Gladys Wade, an inmate who claims to know the murderer’s identity and wants to barter that secret for her parole. Karp offers multiple twists that will keep most readers guessing until the end, and balances the grim plot with Biggs’s inexhaustible supply of genuinely humorous one-liners. Kinky Friedman and Carl Hiaasen fans should latch onto this series. - Publishers Weekly STARRED Review.

The opening scene of Cut, Paste, Kill will hook you: A woman scatters numbered ping pong balls and waits to see which one her cats will catch first, thus identifying her next murder victim. This cavalier attitude towards life and death sets the stage for the fourth installment in an entertaining series featuring Hollywood homicide detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. […] Cut, Paste, Kill is a light and breezy police procedural that readers will fly through in one setting. […] This fast, fun, buddy-cop book has surprising twists and wisecracking humor, but also a fascinating psychological study, and touching family scenes with emotional depth. An over-the-top cinematic climax ices the cake. Fams of the Lomax and Biggs mysteries will be happy to learn that a TV series is said to be in the works. -Mystery Scene

Marshall Karp's mysteries have always balanced comic absurdity with exciting mystery plots. In CUT, PASTE, KILL, Karp shows that he's just as skillful with plotting, character development, and those groan-eliciting one-liners as his villain is with scissors, glue stick and fancy papers. -Bookreporter.com

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