Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #458759 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

debut novel - can't wait for the next one!
Taylor Jackson and Homicide Lieutenant and FBI profiler John Baldwin (whois also Taylors lover) have a tough case to crack with the Southern Strangler. His escalating violence and speed along with an ability to move across the southern states and leave no clues gives them a difficult case to crack. Add to this a serial rapist, and a drug dealer being released from a solid case and back out into the community and you have both a fast paced and enough plots to keep you thinking.

The 'best bit' for me was the characterisation, it's a long time since I have picked up a book and from the first chapter felt as if I knew the characters. They are all established in their particular professions and friendships - and really did feel as if they knew each other well. Whilst their backgrounds are given - they are not drummed into you as if you are 12 and reading your first big book, neither are they shallow and incidental. The police procedural and CSI stuff is covered but not laboured and whilst our murderer is viscious and violent none of it is gratified within the pages of this excellent first novel.

The only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 is; a) there is no 4.5 and b) I did guess the murderer - unusual for me, so I figured the clues must have been a bit too heavy.

Really looking forward to the next one, gread characters and good plot the whole thing flowed well enough to keep me up reading into the small hours of my Easter break.

Pretty good
I've no idea about the content of the book, I bought it for my wife and she seems very happy, it kept her quiet for quite a long time which is a good sign. More importantly, as a press-weight, it is reasonable for it's size but in the light catagory; as a prop for furniture etc it's not too stable and tears easily; as an 'end of shelf' its not very good 'cause it keeps falling over, especially after I used it to weigh down the glued joints on the new cupboard and then propped up the cupboard while I fixed it to the wall. Still, I think the moral is that it's a great book for the wife but not so much for the woodwork project.