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I downloaded this book from Amazon. It didn’t cost me anything, but I still feel cheated because of the hours I spent reading the book expecting a conclusion to both plots. It didn’t happen. I'll have to buy another book to learn the ending of a plot in this one. No thanks. Fool me once, shame on him; fool me twice, shame on me.
The main plot involves a rookie cop with a Mensa IQ discovering information about a serial killer, based on what she recently learned in cop school, that twenty-year cops haven’t thought about. The plot eventually comes to a conclusion after several pages of “skim over” paragraphs of superfluous information. Even with plot situations that stretch reality, I enjoyed the book, right up to the last chapter when I discovered that I was going to have to buy another book for closure to a second plot.
The author also spends much of the book on a second plot line. Bridgette has a personal agenda involving her mother’s murder. Even though a related murder occurs and she gets shot as well, the author offers no hint of resolution to any of the crimes in this book. .
Bridgette is fine. Really fine. In any situation, she is fine. Under any circumstances, she is fine. After she says she is fine a dozen times or so, you get the idea that she really is fine.
However, she walks into a dead-end alley, sees her injured partner on the ground in pain and the bad guy with a steel bar raised above his head ready to hit her partner again. Instead of shooting the bad guy, she voluntarily puts her gun down and kicks it away. Unarmed, she then invites the man to pass by her in the narrow alley while he’s still holding the steel bar. The police chief should have fired her for voluntarily disarming herself in a dangerous situation. At the very least, her partner should have refused to have anything to do with her afterwards.
February 2018 · Books · verified purchase