Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I enjoy a good detective drama and thriller every now and then, so I had high hopes for this book when I read the description. Indeed, the book pulls you in from the very first, very dramatic scene where our female lead is in grave danger. The author wrote it brilliantly, from the tight perspective of the heroine as she is facing down a bad guy and even losing her grip on consciousness. This book mostly had the fast pace that you want in a thriller, and there are villains, dangerous situations, and twists and turns aplenty to keep you turning the pages. Things are not always what they seem, making the ultimate figure-it-out scenes and subsequent answers true revelations at times. But two things ruined the book for me. While I expect some level of profanity in these kinds of books to be high, it felt excessive and gratuitous here. My other issue—and this may be just be a "me" thing—was with the subplot about the ex-husband and daughter. I just like my detective stories and thrillers to be cleaner, "just-the-facts-ma'am." I don't necessarily want or need to know about the family dynamics of a detective unless it directly relates to the story, which I didn't feel like it did here. I also thought that the pace required for a thriller dragged when the story veered into the personal subplot.