Review: Okay... but 3 stars from me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
This crime thriller is a  decent whodunit.  I did have a few problems with it that bothered me which is why it just gets 3 stars on my review.The first thing was how never in the entire book did our Hero detective "Brendan" say the name of his dead wife and little girl.  It was always my wife and child, or your wife and little girl, no one mentioned them by name not even him.2nd thing was the murder takes place in an Old 3 story Farm house, but it says it only has 4 bedrooms.  I found that very strange for a 3 story older home in the country, normally if they have 3 stories there are 6 bedrooms or more.The reasons for old big houses were for huge families who had lots of kids.  This was just something that stuck in my mind as I was reading the story...also the price of this Old house on just 15 acres, the last selling price of 2 million... geez I don't think so... way too high...for an old house that needs remodeled.Then after the murder it took many chapters for anyone to ask or mention or wonder WHERE this murdered womens child was, I think they finally addressed it sometime after chapter 15 or 20.  But right away the same day as the murder the detective notices that the women has a child.  But no child was in this house... why didn't he ask where it might be, maybe it was kidnapped at the time of the murder... ??? who knows...Then they said they could tell the murdered women had many sexual partners, how the heck could they tell that?  And she clearly had just gotten out of the shower before she dialed 911 and was killed, so if she had been raped before killed only one persons DNA would be there, that of her killer.... but the story tells it like, oh she had so many partners what ever DNA that might be there would not help with who killed her...  What????Now I realize in this story this is the very first time this detective has ever detected anything, and through most of it he did a  fine job, but he gets hurt in so many ways, broken hip bone and all, but yet walks in no time, and in a few days stops using his crutches, even runs sometimes, and then gets hurt again, shot in the chest and in just 2 short weeks is out of the hospital and on the case again... unrealistic....  and totally not much of a hero except that he is smart enough to figure out who dun it...This could of been a really super good 5 star book IF so many things were not so unrealistic in the story...Not one I will recommend to my friends and family, sorry...Happy reading Ya'll........