Review: New author's crime/mystery is a great, intelligent, engrossing & interesting story that I couldn't put down
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2011
Lee Hanson'sSwan Songgrabbed my full attention from the very beginning to the very end. It is a very unique story . A story she has put a lot of thought and research into. Ms .Hanson is a perfectionist when it comes to telling this story. All her characters are described so you feel like you know them.Lee Hanson's writing is like being lucky enough to find a four leaf clover while walking through a huge field of wild flowers. I was lucky to find, by accident, a post in a Amazon MOA discussion and her post stated these 10 words " I bet you can't figure out who the killer is... " those 10 words jumped out at me and I bought both of her books instantly. I only read indie (new) author's books and read them by the date I purchased them but Lee's 10 words kept going through my mind and I just had to start reading Swan Song and I am thrilled that I did because Lee Hanson has been given a very precious talented gift of telling a great, intelligent, fascinating page turning story with so many twists and turns and without the need of excessive bloody scenes, without gore, without over sexual content, without animal cruelty etc.I loved the way this author wanted and successfully succeeded to depict a new and different type of hero/character like Julie O'Hara (aka "Merlin" ) as a professional body language expert who is able to read the body language of all the characters in Swan Song. Julie was compassionate when it came time to question some of these character's about their dear loved friend Dianna and Julie knew by their body language that these friends were hurting from the loss of Dianna. With the other characters she was polite while questioning them but down deep she knew by their gestures that they weren't being honest just by them touching their ear lobe or touching their nose etc. Amazing.I have become a Julie O'Hara fan for sure. I am looking forward to reading Ms. Hanson's Castle Cay book next. If that story is as wonderful as this story I think Lee Hanson has a great writing future  as a wonderful author.  JMHO.  To Lee Hanson, you were correct with your 10 words as I was not able to figure out who the killer was. Great job.I highly recommend Lee Hanson'sSwan Songa very talented new author and I hope her dream comes true at becoming a well known talented author . :>)