After a Picoult overdose I plucked Karen Rose off the shelf
and decided to read a nice solid crime novel for a change. Kristen Mayhew is
the star of this one, a public defender who takes any courtroom loss very personally,
Kristen is lonely and closed off after being raped in college. Kristen however
is being watched very carefully by a calculated killer who is delivering
Kristen pictures and evidence of his murders, with a twist, he’s only going
after criminals who escaped justice and most of them are Kristen’s own losses.
He starts with a couple of sexual deviants and three gang members and escalates
to killing people who haven’t been tried, but that he stills views as guilty.
Handily delivering Kristen evidence of his crimes and burial sites and also
offering her some interior decoration tips. He’s your average psycho vigilante.
Enter super cop, Abe Reagan, descending from a family of law
enforcement he is super hunky and has eyes for only one woman, Kristen. Kristen
is playing ice queen and Abe’s partner Mia is doing most of the work in trying
to find the killer before he’s killed enough criminals to make a football team. Abes family
adopt Kristen pretty quickly and soon she is shacked up with hunky cop and they
are working out decades of issues together and sometimes trying to solve the
crime. Kristen is also being targeted by gang members who are pissed to lose
three of their own and think Kristen knows who is behind it and then she starts
getting threats from the super creepy father of Angelo, who is a murderer who
escaped justice and becomes a murderee to the super bad vigilante. You with me
so far? Then there is reporter Zoe who needs a big break so she can make it to
CNN and thinks a few murders will get her to the top, aswell as sleeping with literally
anyone who can give her an exclusive. She has this crazy hatred of Kristen
which is literally never explained.
The crime itself is really interesting, the murders, the
clues, the pool of suspects keep you reading. I narrowed it down to three people
and I was right on one of them.
However my only criticism is this, I went into the novel not
realising Karen Rose writes “Romantic suspenseful” novels and honestly by the
end of the book I was tired of the cringetastic sex scenes and clichéd conversations
between hunkysupercop and Kristen.
I liked Kristen as a character though, she was pretty tough,
interesting and easy to read about.
Three out of five, I loved the plot and feel of the novel
but the romance was too over played and took away from Roses true talent as a
crime author.
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