Review: IndieReader Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2012
Samantha (aka Sam) Rialto is a middle school music teacher who moonlights as a photographer-for-hire who ensnares cheating spouses. In the process of one of these jobs she witnesses a double murder and, upon calling the police, becomes completely enmeshed in a maze of suspects, leads, dead ends, further gunshots, evidence and, frankly, lust.Author Katy parades out a truck-full of colorful characters and dares you to keep up. There's Maxie, Sam's best friend, a smart talking dame dating a karate expert who has taught her well. Ben is the hunky detective with whom Sam verbally fences and the reader pretty much knows where that's heading. Horace Sing is the murdered husband and Loretta, the jealous wife who hired Sam to spy on her husband.The plot, as you might expect from such a character-filled story, is convoluted. But the snappy interchanges among the principals plus Sam's self-effacing inner monologues and many narrative detours, keep you flying through the book.The denouement, which finds Sam and best friend Maxie right in the middle, is one the reader will never guess, although, when you think about it, makes perfect sense.Reviewed by Joe DelPriore**Indie Reader gives this book 3.5 stars**