Review: Excellent Mystery, Great Characters, Clever Plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
If you like modern mysteries with thoughtfully developed characters, unpredictable events and carefully plotted storylines, you'll enjoy reading the Remy Moreau series. The books are short - St. Mary's Cipher only took me about an hour to read - and I'd love to see it in full novel length, but I'll take what I can get!Remy is a Sherlock Holmes/Lisbeth Salander sort of character - smart, a bit aloof, and very intuitive. She's obviously carrying around a lot of baggage from her early years, but the reader does not yet know just what makes her tick and why. Her roommate and sidekick, Jay Watts, is a bit easier to understand - very much like Watson in Sherlock Holmes, but with a very different back-story.In St. Mary's Cipher - the second book of the series - Jim  Fairfield comes to Remy with several coded letters that his wife had received. Fairfield's wife is scared and paranoid, but try as he might, she will not tell her husband the reason for her fears, why she insisted that they move from their home to a new city and a new life, and why she is unable to shake away the past. When Jim finds the coded letters and emails, she becomes very nervous, begs him not to become involved, but still refuses to tell him what they mean. Frustrated and concerned, he hires Remy Moreau.The story moves quickly, as Remy struggles to break the code and unearth the mystery - but can she discover the hidden meaning before it's too late? You'll have to read this top-notch mystery to find the answer.Highly recommended!I was honored to have been given a copy of this book by the author in exchange for agreeing to write a fair and unbiased review. I have never met the author.