Review: Interesting Subject/Plot - But Main Character Too Narcissistic For My Taste (Though She Would Protest To The Contrary)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
The plot of this book essentially deals with 2 detectives as they try to solve 2 murders that appear to be related to (an unknown) pc voyeur and blackmailer who remotely hacks into peoples' web cams to watch them - as they hopefully engage in compromising activities, such as masturbating to porn on their lap tops.  The real "hook" of this book, though, is that the female detective investigating these crimes (murder and cyber-hacking) is herself being blackmailed by the voyeur for her own porn addiction and  self-pleasuring activities, all of which the voyeur has captured on-line.  Told from the view of this female detective, the story spends a lot of time discussing the moral dilemma she faces as she elects not to inform her co-workers(s) of her (blackmailing) secret due to embarrassment, and plain "old self interest".  Her behavior in doing this, while not professional, is certainly understandable.  And for most of the book, I was able to "buy into" her actions - and to appreciate the creativity of a plot that dealt with the somewhat novel crime of web-cam spying and blackmailing,  But the book ultimately alienated me with its resolution of the crime.  Without giving the ending entirely away (at least part of it - for there are actually two endings/resolutions), I just couldn't accept the "over the line" and narcissistic actions undertaken by the detective to keep her name "unsullied"  - after which it appears "she lived happily ever after".