Review: Wonderful story that kept me wanting more!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
Suzanne has really outdone herself with this book. As much as I loved the Pam of Babylon series I have to say that I loved this book even more. Wonderful story line, great characters, great history of Greeks. I loved it from the very first page to the last page.Jill Zannos is the daughter of a Greek grocery store owner, Gus, and a Detective for the Detroit Police Dept. It starts out with a gruesome murder of a young woman who Jill and her partner Albert Wong are investigating. The victim is a 26 year old beautiful young woman that still lives at home. She left for her date with her boyfriend Nick Fri. night and was found Mon. morning brutally sexually assaulted and then shot in the head. Her father, Jacob Parker a retired police officer called in a missing report when she was not home by her 11:00 curfew. Her mother Marianne Parker helped Jacob search everywhere for their beloved missing daughter. Jacob hated Nick, Gretchen's boyfriend because he was so much older that Gretchen and he just plain didn't like him. Marianne felt that something bad had happened to their daughter.Jill has some psychic abilities that help her to see inside the victim and the people surrounding her. Jill's mother died when she was a young girl while coming back from visiting Jill's brother who was born with Down's Syndrome and put in an institution as a baby because the Dr's and her mother in law said it would be the best for him. Her father raised her on his own but of course had the help of his parents as they all lived above the store.Jill would have breakfast every morning with her dad and he would make her lunch to take to work also.This story has many twists and turn in it and things in the case that I did not see coming at first. It was not hidden what happen to Gretchen but I won't tell anyway. The family did a lot together and seem to get along very good, some too good at times. Christopher, Jill's brother was not Gus's son but he always went to see him and loved him as though he was. The Zanno's family has many ups and downs of their own that I look forward to reading more about in the next two books.Jill is a strong woman but still can be hurt when the man she thought she knew betrayed her. This story has so much going on that I would have to write a small book here to really say how much I loved it and what about it I loved. I loved everything. It was well written and it was obvious that Ms Jenkins did her homework with this story. Learning about the Greeks was great and getting to know most of the family members was interesting too. They are a typical family in that they have their problems, up and downs, big dinners, fights and lots of love for each other.I really loved this story and can't wait to start the next book, The Princess of Greektown. I gave it a 5 star rating because to me it deserved it and was such a good story. From beginning to end it kept me turning pages to see what would happen next. Great story Suzanne. Congratulations the start to another great series, that to me is even better than the Pam series and I loved every book in that one too. :)