The Lightning Rod by Brad Meltzer

This is a Zig and Nola Novel.  I don’t know if it is the first one or not but it appears to be setting up a series.   Zig is a mortician with tons of emotional baggage but reasonably normal.  Nola is an artist with major childhood trauma.   They become embroiled in a murder mystery and the hunt for twenty-two million dollars.

Meltzer appears to revel in flawed protagonists.   Roddy, Zion, Elijah, Waggs, Mint, and the Reds are colorful, violent and dreadfully flawed.  

Meltzer successfully obfuscates the true perpetrators until near the end.   He also does a journeyman’s job of wrapping up the loose ends.  Some seem to think that loose ends provide food for thought and allows you to create whatever answers fits your mood.   Personally, I like to know what the author thought and how he saw the culmination of the plot.  

I enjoyed the book and recommend it. 

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