Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to "Shirley") (Strand, 2011)

Sypnosis from Amazon:

Andrew Mayhem is back! In this dark and hilarious new adventure, Andrew has started up a private investigation business with his best friend Roger (slogan: "We Solve Weird Problems"). Since his options in life will become somewhat more limited after his wife Helen gives birth to triplets, it's his last-ditch effort to get out of being stuck with a corporate day job.
       One of their first clients is an attractive woman named Shirley. Keeping with the kind of luck Andrew has had his entire life, her problem is: "I think I may be a serial killer."
       Yeah, he takes the job. Even after she insists on being handcuffed to him while they investigate the house where she might have stored the bodies of her victims.
       But Andrew discovers that this day has much more danger in store than being handcuffed to a woman who may or may not be a homicidal maniac. Because Mr. Burke, the sadistic villain of his last adventure, has been watching Andrew and plotting a truly ghastly revenge...and the attack begins now!

Thoughts:

Jeff Strand is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Like most people coming into the Andrew Mayhem novels late in the mix, I read the previous three back-to-back. It was then that I noticed that the 4th installment was on it's way out. No waiting around for me! With the thought that i would get burned out, put it on the back-burner and read a couple or other novels first.

    I'm thinking that i didn't let enough time pass. No, it's not that it isn't good. It's great. I love his writing. It's just that this one lacked something that the other three exceeded in. While it is roughly the same amount of pages as the previous three books, this book's main story didn't really take off until the last quarter of the book. This could have easily been another 60 pages long.(maintaining the same writing style)

I stilled loved the book, but i felt like someone had flipped the switch on the roller-coaster and we bypassed the massive loop that everyone was waiting for.

Could have been 5, the M gives it 4/5