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| Plot Summary of The Beach Club |
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"The fictional city of Eden Valley, California has a serial rapist in its midst. One spring evening, a 21-year-old toy store cashier is raped in a back storeroom by a knife-wielding subject. Officer Vincent Patrone, Detective Ray Depietro and the rest of the Eden Valley swing shift dubbed “The Beach Club” go after the elusive sexual predator.
The shift gets its name from the law enforcement slang term “beach time” (which equates to disciplinary time off without pay) because of the amount of officers that have been suspended at one time or another. Patrol Commander Lt. Alex Santos, a headhunting- backstabbing administrator who is pursuing the chief's job, exploits the mishaps of the shift to use to his advantage.
Detective Depietro plunges deeper into the case as the rapist strikes two additional times throughout the week, the last victim being the sister of one of the officers of the shift. Throughout his investigation Depietro notices one common factor in addition to the use of a large hunting knife; the rapist pours liquid substances over the scenes of his attacks to destroy evidence. Depietro seeks any leads in the case that is rapidly gathering victims but no identifiable suspect.
Depietro gets a break when he finds a broken glass jar he believes is associated with the latest attack. He retrieves latent fingerprints from the glass shards and submits them for analysis to the state and FBI crime labs. His efforts pay off when the FBI contacts him with an identification of the fingerprint. Depietro is taken back as the person identified to the fingerprint has a nexus to the police department as well as to Depietro's past.
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, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of The Beach Club |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here?
- rapist
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- rednecks
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- rape (yeech!)
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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