Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Review: The Yoga of Max's Discontent

The Yoga of Max's Discontent The Yoga of Max's Discontent by Karan Bajaj
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A book about spiritual awakening and self discovery that reads so smoothly you don't realize you've been turning page after page for the last 3 hours.

Max Pzoras has eveything he ever wanted: an education, a good job, wealth and comfort. But when his mother dies, he feels lost and alone. He then embarks on a trip to India on a quest to "find himself" (I know it sounds pedestrian, but there's much more to it)

Looking for a spiritual teacher he's heard about, he goes from the cold North to the hot and droughty south, where he will work hard, physically and spiritually.

I'm always a bit amused when people flee their lives in order to "find themselves", but even if Max starts as an amateur, not knowing exactly what he wants or needs, the road to finding it is incredible. Hard and lonely, but incredible none the less.


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Review: Don't You Cry

Don't You Cry Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a seriously good book. It starts slow... and then builds up until you can't wait to find out what is going to happen. And you will be surprised.

The story is told by Quinn, and it starts when she finds out Esther, her roommate is missing. Not knowing what to do and who to contact, she finds evidence that Esther might be in danger. At one time she even believes Esther might harm her, but she turns out to be pretty resourceful.

Also narrated by Alex, a young man who lives with his lazy alcoholic father, who falls in love and befriends a mysterious woman who squats in the house in front of his own.

Ordinary people, with what seem ordinary lives that suddenly get tangled and complicate with events they don't understand but that will affect them.

My first Mary Kubica book (I do have more of her previous books in my shelves), and even if I had heard about what a good writer she is and of the amazing thrillers she writes, I have to say I was surprised with this book, at how the story escalates and ends with a completely unexpected turn.


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Monday, May 30, 2016

Review: Imagine Me Gone

Imagine Me Gone Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My head is still spinning after reading this book. It's incredibly sad and also beautiful.

When John and Margaret meet and start dating, she is unaware he has mental health issues. But when she finds out, she goes ahead with the marriage.
There don't seem to be more problems than any normal family would have, until the day that John makes a drastic decision that will change them from then on.

Their three children: Michael, Celia and Alec are as different as can be, and each will struggle with the family history in their own way, as will Margaret.

Michael, who is as troubled as his father, will struggle through the years to balance his life and mind, involving all the family. Even when they are far away, they will regroup in order to help him survive.


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Review: A Lesson in Love and Murder

A Lesson in Love and Murder A Lesson in Love and Murder by Rachel McMillan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Canada, 1912.
Herringford and Watts are detecting again. Or should I say Herringford and DeLuca? As Jem is married now.

For me, there are two sides to this book: the historical research, which is fantastic. The Morality Squad, women getting fired for being married (as they have to tend to her husbands and houses), the political corruption! The suffragettes and the anarchists have an important part in the book also. Even if -as she says- Miss McMillan has taken many historical liberties in depicting the city, there is a very solid base. It's extremely well written and interesting.

But I'm a bit puzzled by Merinda and Jem.
From being "bachelor girls", and quite happy with it, Jem got hastily married and she just butts heads with her husband and does whatever she wants. Or rather what Merinda wants?
And Merinda is as self centered as she was in the first book.

But all in all, a very recommendable book and series.

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Review: After the Fire

After the Fire After the Fire by Jane Casey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Big problem here: I have to read the first 5 books of this series asap! Really, this book was perfect. I don't know if I'm sad that I haven't read the previous books or happy that I found a new series and that I have 5 more books to add to my ever growing TBR shelf.

For me, it has all of the elements needed: it's a police procedure, set in the UK, with a very smart, brave and human female main character.

Maeve Kerrigan is in a slump: her boyfriend left a few months ago without any explanation (I guess I have to read book 5 to get a better grasp of this situation, but this book works as a stand alone), her health is not so great and they have a new substitute chief who can be a pain. There's a stalker after her. And last, but not least, her partner, is crashing at her place.

And the fire/crime scene which they are currently investigating is also where she was attacked once, so definitely not a good place to be.

When one of the people found dead turns out to be an important politician, the investigation takes another turn, as other interests take precedent now.


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Review: 24 Hours: An intense, suspenseful psychological thriller

24 Hours: An intense, suspenseful psychological thriller 24 Hours: An intense, suspenseful psychological thriller by Claire Seeber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Laurie's life is falling apart: her marriage is over, her husband has a new and exotic girlfriend and worse of all, her best friend has just died in a fire and Laurie fears it was she who was the intended victim.

Not knowing who is trying to kill her, she has only 24 hours to find her daughter and move to a safe place for both of them. She has no money, no car, no id.

Who can she trust? Also, while in the beginning everybody thinks she died in the fire, it is soon found out it was not her, which makes her a subject of interest for the police.
So Laurie, in a state of shock and exhaustion, begs, borrows and steals in order to find her little girl before it is too late.

This is a great thriller, fast, full of events, but perfectly timed and executed. You feel the mc sadness, and you end as tired as she is.

And the end? You won't guess what is happening there, I promise!

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Review: Death in Room Five

Death in Room Five Death in Room Five by George Bellairs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Chief Inspector Littlejohn is on vacation with his wife in Cannes. At the same time, a tourist group from the small town of Bolchester, are also vacationing nearby. When one of the group is attacked and dies as a result, the Inspector's vacation is severely interrupted in order to aid the French police.

This is Book 24 in the series, and I have to say I was afraid I would find the writing style too old fashioned, as the first book was published in 1941 and this one is from 1955. Big mistake. Great writing is never out of style!

This is your typical murder mystery, and it reminded me a bit of Agatha Christie: several people thrown together by diverse circumstances, in this case a bus holiday, a murder and a very smart policeman.

One of the best parts was the trouble Littlejohn has understanding his French colleagues method of work, and they of understanding his. But nothing that a few (or should I say many) glasses of Pernod won't help... and a couple of amazing French meals.


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Review: Dangerous Comforts

Dangerous Comforts Dangerous Comforts by Rickie Blair
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ruby Danger strikes again. Even when she is sent on mandatory vacation, she manages to get herself in trouble, find a criminal or two and almost wreck the career she is trying to revive.

I read book 1 in series, but skipped directly to book 3. You can read it as a stand alone, but I'm absolutely going to read book 2 as Ruby is turning into a very resourceful and intelligent woman. After the chaos in which we left her in book 1, with no money, no career and no marriage, she has made a great come back.

This time she is in Vegas, where instead of relaxing and having fun, she stubbornly does what she thinks is right.
Her business partner Hari, in the meantime, is in London depressed and doing nothing. When his neighbor, who happens to be the owner of the luxury hotel in Vegas where Ruby is staying, hires him to find the person who is selling confidential information, he reluctantly agrees and stumbles into Ruby.

Great book, great characters!


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Review: The Drowning Girls

The Drowning Girls The Drowning Girls by Paula Treick DeBoard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the kind of book that keeps you on the edge... you may even want to peek on the last pages to see if everything ends up all right.

When Phil & Liz and their daughter Danielle move to The Palms, they're out of their league. Phil is the new community relations specialist, Liz is a school counselor. Their neighbors are rich, very rich.

Danielle meets new friends, and one of them just happens to turn into their worst nightmare. She has a history of stalking older men, which is denied both by herself and her parents. She has already destroyed a teacher's life and now Phil is her target.

Can you put a stop to a psychopath? And even worse, to an underage psychopath whose parents are even more spoiled than she is.

So, the lives of all these people unravel pretty fast. Under all the glitter and the snobbery, they're all pretty unhappy.


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Review: The Drowning Girls

The Drowning Girls The Drowning Girls by Paula Treick DeBoard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the kind of book that keeps you on the edge... you may even want to peek on the last pages to see if everything ends up all right.

When Phil & Liz and their daughter Danielle move to The Palms, they're out of their league. Phil is the new community relations specialist, Liz is a school counselor. Their neighbors are rich, very rich.

Danielle meets new friends, and one of them just happens to turn into their worst nightmare. She has a history of stalking older men, which is denied both by herself and her parents. She has already destroyed a teacher's life and now Phil is her target.

Can you put a stop to a psychopath? And even worse, to an underage psychopath whose parents are even more spoiled than she is.

So, the lives of all these people unravel pretty fast. Under all the glitter and the snobbery, they're all pretty unhappy.


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Review: The Semester of Our Discontent

The Semester of Our Discontent The Semester of Our Discontent by Cynthia Kuhn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lila Maclean is one of my new favorite detectives. She's smart, she works hard, and she just solves a crime when it's needed.

Just hired into the English department of a recognized university, Lila stumbles unto a murder, and then into another...
Even if it were not hard enough to adapt to a new job, new colleagues, new town, new students, now she has to deal with murder. And with being a suspect and then trying to get her cousin out of jail when she, in turn, is arrested for the murders.

And who thought Academia was a quiet place? How those teachers complain, gossip and bad mouth their peers is beyond my understanding... but completely true.

This book is extremely well written, very well paced, and the characters are great! Likable, human, real. And for once, it's so nice to read a book without any foul language, sex, violence, etc!

Waiting anxiously for Book 2 in series!




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Sunday, May 08, 2016

Review: The Missing Hours

The Missing Hours The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When Selena Cole disappears, her vanishing might be (or not) linked to a murder.
But why has she vanished? Where did she go during the 20 hours she was missing? A widow with 2 small girls wouldn't surely abandon them in a play area with no explanation.
And who killed Dominic Newell and why?

What makes this book so good is the theme, one we can't imagine from how it starts: Selena and her husband are/were experts on kidnap and ransom, and travelled the world to rescue people victim of abductions. Through the cases cited in the book, we get a glimpse of their life until a few years before the book starts.

We also have a very improbable police team: DS Finn Hale, only 83 days since he was promoted and very unsure of himself. And his sister, DC Leah Mackay, struggling to balance life, family and work.

One of the best thrillers I've read lately!

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Review: Miller's Valley

Miller's Valley Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Miller's Valley is scheduled to be flooded soon. The ground is dangerous and the government is planning to open the dams and fill it with water. There are few families living there still, as most have relocated to higher ground, but Mary Margaret Miller, of the Miller's that gave name to the valley, and her family still live there.

This is the story of Mary Margaret (Mimi), her parents, Ruth her agoraphobic aunt. Also of her brothers: The conventional Ed and Tommy, who is jail bait.

This is a great story beautifully told by renowned author Anna Quindlen.
It's a story, mainly, of hard, strong, loving women and how they keep everything (and everybody together)

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Review: On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light: A Novel

On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light: A Novel On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light: A Novel by Cordelia Strube
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When I started reading this book I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. I had read several reviews that raved about it, but for me it was a slow start. I wasn't sure about any of the main characters: Harriet, her mother, her father, her brother, the seniors...
But there was something that made me keep on, and I'm grateful I did.

Harriet is 11 years old. She lives with her mother, her "stepfather" and her little brother, who is ill. All around her are adults that deep down are more immature than she is. They share too much information with her and don't realize she is only a little girl that needs love and comfort. And hugs!

She lives in apartment building full of seniors, and only one girl her age (who is a horrible character in the beginning), she makes very dark art out of dumpsters and she takes care of everybody. But who takes care of her? Maybe her grandmother, who is one step away from having Alzheimer's.

But the book takes a major twist and what happens first is not what we see in the end.
I have seldom seen such a beautiful book with so many unlikeable characters. Harriet is a very complex little girl, and her brother Irwin is on the top of my list.

And what about the title? Isn't it amazing?
But be warned, this isn't an easy book. I wanted to scream at each and every one of the adults (if they can be called that) that appear here. And even if there was not much hope for Harriet, there is a light for Irwin and Heike.

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Review: The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M.A. Orthofer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is an amazing reference book. But even if I know it can't encompass each and every author, I found that some of my favorite authors were missing. I know this is subjective, but here I go, as I do want to mention some issues I found:

The galley needs serious editing as complete lines/paragraphs are missing or maybe the formatting went awry?

France: As far as I know, and I looked everywhere for information on this subject, Simone de Beauvoir was not married to JP Sartre. They did have an "open relationship", but the books states they were married.

Spain: Carmen Laforet does not appear and she is contemporary to Cela. Though she did write and publish very few books, she won the Nadal Prize in 1944 and is a very important author.

The Netherlands: Herman Koch merits only a few lines?

Iceland: I would have liked to see Audur Ava Olafsdottir mentioned.

Middle East: Rabih Alameddine not mentioned

India: I don't agree with the review that says that Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger: "The picture Adiga offers is often too muddled, and his epistolary approach seems pointless". Really? The book is based on the epistolary approach!

Japan: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: "The very satisfying Norwegian Wood is a relatively conventional realist novel". Conventional? Anything but, IMHO.

Mexico: The novels of Jorge ibargüengoitia are worth reading? Understatement of the century. They are must reads!

And where is Octavio Paz? Mexico's Nobel prize for literature? I can't believe he's not included. Paz was not a fiction writer, but he merits being mentioned as an important poet.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Review: Maestra

Maestra Maestra by L.S. Hilton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read this book in a day and a half. It's not going to win any literary prizes, but it's anyway fascinating. It's guilty reading for sure.
After Judith Rashleigh is fired from her work at a London auction art house when she discovers a fraud, she travels to France with a guy she met while moonlighting as a waitress in a sleazy cocktail bar. Things happen, the guy dies and Judy sets on to a terrific (and murderous) rampage through Europe.
There's very graphic sex (lots of it), millions of Euros, art, name dropping and high end fashion.
It may seem strange to root for the psychopathic anti heroine, but I liked Judy. She'd probably murder me in my sleep, but she's a true character.
Why only 3 stars? As far as fiction goes, you can't go on a murdering tour of Europe and not get caught, right? No prints, no witnesses, no money trail?
But, I do want to read the next book. On the beach, on an airplane, this is the perfect Summer book.


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Review: Breaking Measures

Breaking Measures Breaking Measures by Emma Raveling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is the perfect example that sometimes, less is more. Less than 175 pages, it's the prequel to a book titled A Woven Silence (which I hope will be published real soon as I can't find more info about it).

Meet Leila Cates. A rich, pretty and successful concert pianist on the eve of her NY debut who after finding her boyfriend, the conductor, dead, is the principal suspect.

Leila has dedicated her entire life to music, and she is on the verge of losing it too. Teaming up with the police detective in charge of her case, she will find out not only who killed her boyfriend, but some things about herself that would have better been left alone.

Leila is a compelling character, smart and easy. She's a girl that has her world turned upside down and manages to survive and get stronger. So, when will we see her in a new book?

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Review: Ice Cold

Ice Cold Ice Cold by Andrea Maria Schenkel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Germany in the 1930's: not much work and there's a serial killer and rapist around Munich. Several young girls have been attacked, but now the police have a suspect in custody.

Told in different voices, it's a strange story of violence, sex and people that just drift around, without much aim in life.
The characters: Josef Kalteis, who tells his story to the police in a cold way (as cold as his name, as Kalteis means Ice Cold), accepting what he has done, but not acknowledging anything wrong in his actions.
And some of the girls: Young Kathie who leaves her boring village for Munich, in hope of making her way in life and slowly falls into prostitution. Kuni, who was going to Munich to visit her sisters. Erna, about to get married. Marlis, attacked on her way to the beach.

This is a very dark book, as you expect something awful to happen to the girls described, and it does.
Even though I'm a big crime & thriller reader, I found this book very disquieting, too harsh. I also find the style complicated. Maybe it was the translation, but I struggled and sometimes found the different voices confusing.

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Review: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Told from 3 different points of view/times in history, this book is going to the top of my favorites list.

Amsterdam 1635, where Sara de Vos, only female member of the painter's guild lives and works. Her child has died and her husband heavily in debt, has fled in order not to go to jail and abandoned her. In order to pay his debts she must paint -to order- for one of her husband's creditors.
NY 1958, where the last of Sara's paintings now hangs in the elegant penthouse of Marty de Groot. One of his ancestors bought it in the 17th century and it made it's way to America. Here it is stolen and then falsified by art student Ellie Shipley.
Sydney 2000, Ellie is now a respectable art teacher and researcher, always afraid that the past, and the forgery, will catch up with her.

But is this painting Sara's last work? As another painting surfaces, along with the forgery and the original, all the parts of the story lock into the others to reveal what really happened, both in Amsterdam and in NY, and that will be revealed many years or centuries later, in a different continent.

Beautiful book, impeccably written, 5 stars at least!

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Monday, May 02, 2016

Review: Design for Dying

Design for Dying Design for Dying by Renee Patrick
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is such an enjoyable book!

As many girls of her age, Lillian Frost (Miss Astoria Park 1936) won a screen test along with her title. However, once in Hollywood she has the good sense to acknowledge she wasn't movie material, so she takes a job in the ladies' lingerie department of a trendy department store.

When her ex best friend is murdered, the police interrogate her, which leads to Lillian taking an active part in the search for the killer. In the course of the investigation she meets Edith Head (yes, the future Academy Award winner). They soon become friends and through her Lillian meets many of the big names in the studio: Bob Hope, Barbara Stanwick, Gracie Allen.

The style of the book is all 1930's. I thought I was reading a book written during those years. No detail is overlooked: the description, the dialogues, the food.
A lovely, pleasant book. Even if there's a murder it's light and fun. Waiting already for the second book in the series.

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Review: The Summer Before the War

The Summer Before the War The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The first thing that struck me about this book was Beatrice's situation, and not only hers, but of women in general at the time of the book. Beginning of the 20th century and women were helpless in so many aspects.

Beatrice Nash is twenty-three years old, an orphan and has no money. As her father decided her inheritance was to be administered by his family. She takes a job as a Latin Master (which was unheard of, as women were mostly teachers only) in Rye, Sussex. There she meets the Kent family and confronts the small minded villagers that think she has no place teaching.

It's the Summer of 1914 and even if Europe is heading into a war, Beatrice and her new friends think it can be avoided and life will go on as usual. But that won't happen, and all the people she knows will be touched by the terrible war.

This is a very moving book, not only because of Beatrice's situation, but because all the characters that surround her are profoundly human: Hugh, the young doctor torn between a beautiful, rich but shallow woman and Beatrice; Daniel the naïve poet; lovely Aunt Agatha.

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Review: Tumbledown Manor

Tumbledown Manor Tumbledown Manor by Helen Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Middle aged woman finds out her husband is cheating. She divorces him, goes back home to Australia, buys the old family home which is in shambles, rebuilds her life, finds a new love and lives happily ever after.
In a nutshell, that would describe the book for me. The story resembles many other books I have read before, which is not good, but the good part is that the characters in this one are pretty unique.

A cat called Mojo and a parrot called Kiwi are on the top of my list, plus an assortment of lovely young people: Lisa's (the mc) kids, their friends, her eccentric sister Maxine, the Grey Army. And the not so unique: her cheating husband, his cliché of a girlfriend and the spoiled daughter. The boyfriend is forgettable, as is the "secret" surrounding the Manor. This part of the plot is just not necessary. It doesn't add anything to it.

2.5 stars rounded up to 3 because in spite of all my complaining, it was a very pleasant read.


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Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book took me by surprise. I had read other reviews about it, and they mostly agreed on how good it was, but it was even better.

This is the story of the Ermosa family, Sephardic Jews that live in Jerusalem. Four generations described from the 1930's to the 1970's.
Narrated by Gabriela, Luna's daughter, from the fourth generation, it's a fascinating trip into a culture and lifestyle broken by war and emigration. It's also the story of how the women in the family are cursed by loving men who don't love them.
The book is full of superstitions, traditions words in ladino that make up their culture.

Though Luna, as the beauty queen would seem to be the main character, her sisters are equally if not more interesting. Rachelika and Becky live in her shadow but have their own stories. And Gabriela, Luna's daughter is a beautiful and angry woman. And the elders! Mercada and Nona Rosa are completely opposite. You love them and you hate them. This is a family that clings together at all times. It can be oppressive, but it is also endearing. There's so much love you feel it in each page.

I highly recommend this book. It taught me not only about a culture so very different than mine, but about families, love and tradition.

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Review: Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I'm without words. This is such a beautiful book!
It's sad but full of hope, it has love, adventure, history. It's incredibly well written and researched.

Though I haven't read The Kitchen House (on my TBR list already), it does mention some events that happen in that book, but they are described so that you can read it separately.

James Burton is a wealthy silversmith who lives in Philadelphia. He is an orphan who was adopted 20 years ago by the Burton's, a child less couple. And he has a secret: although he looks white, his mother is a mulatto. He has managed to pass as white all his life, in fact he didn't even know about his black mother until he was 13 years old, but he lives in constant fear of being discovered.

When his young servant is abducted by slave traders, he will have to travel to the place he fears most, and where there is great danger to his life and his freedom.


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Review: That Darkness

That Darkness That Darkness by Lisa Black
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Jack Renner is a vigilante cop that kills the rapists and the predators, the scum that has so far eluded justice. Maggie Gardiner is a forensic investigator that works on these cases. When she finds evidence that they are linked, her investigation takes a turn. Can a policeman be involved? The premise is one that merits thinking: Is it moral or right to kill someone that has harmed others and that will do harm again? Can you take justice in your own hands? Think Death Wish, the movie.

Though Jack Renner has made these killings a part of his life, for many years and in several cities, Maggie stumbles upon him every time. I have to confess this bothered me. He was such a clumsy and nervous killer that I wondered how he hadn't been caught before. On the other side, Maggie is just too lucky?

I liked the pace of the book, it's a great thriller that has you on the edge, wondering how will Jack get out of this and if Maggie will find the evidence to link him to the murders. But I felt the author left several loose ends. How did Jack start killing? How are he and Maggie getting out of the mess of the last killing? But maybe this will be answered in the next book, as this is the first in the series.

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