When a prominent, yet not well-liked doctor is discovered murdered in his car under unsavoury conditions, pants unzipped, a metal rod jammed down his throat, Sgt. Joe Burgess is called in to investigate. He learns that Doctor Pleasant has a habit of “entertaining” ladies of the night in his car and it seem very likely that the doctor is a victim of one of these women. However, the doctor is not known for a soothing bedside manner, and had had many a disgruntled patients and disgruntled family members of patients. Not to mention his greed and rumoured dealing of drugs. This case of murder just might not be so cut and dried after all as answers to questions just lead to more suspects. 

Sit back and hang on to this wild ride into the darker side of life. From the richest to the poorest, everyone has a secret to hide. Doctor Pleasant had his hands in a number of places where they shouldn’t have been and now it is up to one of Portland, Maine’s finest, Joe Burgess to solve the murder of someone he can’t say he is sorry is dead. Author Kate Flora had done a superb job in giving us a hero with flaws but yet is worthy of the title, a victim that doesn’t invoke much in the way of sympathy, and a wonderful cast of suspects all who have reason’s to see the “good” doctor dead. The reader will think for sure they have the murderer pegged just to second-guess their theory in the very next chapter. Fabulous!  

PLAYING GOD’s ‘who done it’ is not a disappointment, however this reader would have liked to see our leading man end up with a different woman in the end. But se’ la vie’. You can’t win them all.  

Well written and highly enjoyable, PLAYING GOD is plays out much like the show “Law & Order” PLAYING GOD is a delightful read and one that is recommended to anyone who enjoys a good mystery and police procedurals.

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