Two Time

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The New York Times Book Review Sunday June 4 2006 CRIME / Marilyn Stasio (Recommended Summer Reading) Beaches are good places for brooding youll have noticed and Sam Acquillo the protagonist pf Chris Knopfs TWO TIME (Permanent Press $26) is a world-class brooder. A dropout from the corporate world Sam lives in a humble cottage on Little Peconic Bay in the Long Island resort town of Southampton where he drinks a bit fiddles with his 1967 Pontiac Grand Prix and from time to time pulls himself out of his habitual funk to run a quiet intelligent investigation into local events that pique his curiositylike the inexplicable firebomb attack on an investment adviser who was sitting in his Lexus in a restaurant parking lot. Knopf has a touch I likecool careful reflectiveand a great ear for the comic eccentricities of the human voice. Maybe it comes from sitting out on a deck listening to the gulls squawk.