Review: Intriguing Plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2010
Suspenseful from from start to finish, Thin Blood kept me up late reading. Main character Jacinta opens an old missing person case to write a news story. She means well. But soon she deeply regrets her actions. Now she's hurt people she cares about and she's come to realize she doesn't have the aggressiveness needed to be a top investigative reporter. Worse, when bodies turn up, it seems there's a serial killer involved and now Jacinta and her new friend are in danger because of her meddling. She tries to back away from the case, but she's in too deep. Besides, her long-lost stepbrother Daniel has popped back into her life. He's a police investigator in the case and would like for her to keep him in the picture, since she's friends with two of the suspects.The tangled leads and the clues slowly unravel and Jacinta has to risk her life to save someone. Though I'd guessed the identity of the killer before the end, that didn't take away from the story. I had only 1 minor quibble with this book: Jacinta and her stepbrother had two very different versions of an event that had happened when they were both teens. The versions were so different that I felt there needed to be an explanation and there wasn't. I came away thinking someone had lied and if it was Daniel, then why did Jacinta like him and trust him so much?Overall, though, a well-written book with interesting characters and a fast paced plot.