For my book-loving friends, I'm adding a weekly review of a book I've enjoyed. I've been blessed to be friends both on and off social media with so many gifted writers, J.L. Curtis, Peter and Dorothy Grant (both brilliant writers), Katie Andraski, Lawdog, John L. Moore (his superlative new piece The Blue Man will be highlighted next week), and so many others.
But I'd like to introduce authors you may not have read yet. I love a good thriller and police procedural type book. Some I just shake my head at, given my background (they did WHAT to the crime scene?) and others are so over the top implausible I might as well read science fiction.
This is an author I met through a writer's group, a former police officer with a series involving law enforcement "across the pond" that is deeply engaging and his newest book is no exception. I won't give anything away, but this is a haunting book, in that you almost wish the killer gets away with it until a line is crossed. Whatever your personal opinion of their motivations the words will stay with you, creating an image etched upon your eyelids for you to see every time you blink. I'd recommend reading it with the lights on.
You've done a bad thing. You will pay the price.
Alice Granger is no ordinary survivor. She has a tale to tell, a story of revenge.
Alice feels driven to protect the innocent from dangerous men. Men like her father. Men who hurt children. Predators who prey on the innocent. And there’s nothing Alice won’t do to make them pay.
Alice wants to make them suffer as their victims did. But the police are one step behind. And as the net closes, Alice’s life spirals out of control, the lines between good and evil becoming ever more blurred as she attempts to escape capture.
When the hunted becomes the hunter, is anyone innocent?


Thank you for the recommendation Brigid. I am always looking for good authors.
ReplyDeleteOhhh, thanks! Picked up a copy!
ReplyDeleteMay I offer an author(s), a mother & son team, who write under the name of Charles Todd. The stories are based on a Scotland Yard detective who plies his trade just after the 1st World War.
ReplyDeleteThey are wonderful writers. I've read several from their two series.
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