I finished another book from the Fall Into Reading Challenge list (you can see the list by clicking the page with same title posted above under the header). If you'd like to participate, simply head over to Calapiddar blog and link up!
I enjoy Baldacci's books especially the Camel Club series and this series (shown above) with the detectives Michelle Maxwell and Sean King.
This was a fast read as most of his novels tend to be. He introduces several main characters right away and always does a fantastic job of their personality description/physical description.
Genre: secular fiction/mystery/thriller.
Setting: rural, upper Maine as well as Portland Maine and the Washington DC area; NYC
Time: the present
Main Plot: the detectives are called in, by an attorney for a man being held in a maximum security prison for the criminally insane as he is suspected of being a serial killer. 6 bodies were found in his barn down in Virginia.
Their investigation is immediately derailed because on their way to meet Ted Bergin, the lawyer, they find him murdered on the side of a road.
They now have to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Edgar Roy really a serial killer? Who murdered Bergin? How is the Department of Homeland Security involved??
This book is about a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.
The detectives keep finding dead ends, false friends, threats, and half truths. And all from government officials!
They are on "a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted." (inside jacket of book)
I highly recommend this novel and give it a 10 on a scale of 1-10! This was one of the author's best, in my opinion.....and....scary to think but could our government act this way at times??
Appropriate for ages 17 and older. (my opinion...due to some violence)
2 comments:
I have never read this author before. Next time I'm craving a mystery I'll have to put it on my library list.
Oooh I want to read that!!!!
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