Review: Genevieve Lenard is a woman with an amazing brain. However
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
As a big fan of Dick Wolfe's Law and Order franchises, early on I saw that the main chracter in this now four book series parallels Robert Goren in Criminal Intent. She is a bit "fussier" than Goren, but still an expert in micro emotions.Genevieve Lenard is a woman with an amazing brain. However, she has been diagnosed along the spectrum disorder scale as a VERY high functioning Asperger's. This makes her able to function as an observer over a spectator, and she works primarily alone in a prestigious Insurance Company in Strasborg, France.Real people give her fits. She can't interact with emotions until she trusts someone and they become familiar. She is kind of forced into working with "the three stooges on steriods": Colin, a reformed art thief; Vinnie, a kind of reformed thug; and Manny, a "good guy" who works with the not-so-good guys. Not only does she have to work WITH them, they invade both her psychic and physical space to find out why a strip of a well known and well forged Gauguin is on the personage of a young artist.The storyline gets a bit muddled in spits, as new characters get developed. as happens in many mysteries. This sounds like a great series in the works, and I will enjoy others