Review: New twist on the imaginary friend!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
R2R (LoP) Reading the Dead (The Sarah Milton Chronicles)I received a free copy, through LoP, in exchange for a review.Imaginary friends are a common thing to have when your a child, but could they really be more than just a figment of an imagination?  Sarah had a young friend, Anna, that was her constant, along with reading. But then, with the sudden disappearance of her mother, Anna also vanishes and Sarah is left alone, to deal with her grief and loneliness.  She starts to obsess with finding out what truly happened to her mother and she will stop at nothing to bring her mother and herself some peace.This brings Sarah to her adult career, working with the LAPD Violent Crimes Unit, as a profiler. She has solved one serial killer case, but another one is stumping the department.  One night, poor Sarah is shot getting, of all things, dog food. This sparks a return of her old friend and possible thoughts that she is losing her mind. Things have a funny way of turning out and this is just the beginning of the journey.'If only the press knew my full story, I joked to myself. Familiar habits in my dealing with Anna quickly returned to me, almost like exercising a muscle that was dormant for some time. I completely forgot how difficult it was to manage our clandestine relationship in public.If my doctors suspected that I was carrying on conversations with visions of schoolgirls in red, I highly doubt that I would have found myself returning home any time soon. More likely, I would probably be spending an extended recovery period in a very different kind of hospital: one with bars on the windows and padding on the walls.'Really well thought out story.  I enjoyed all of the characters and the way that Anna was such a little turd was perfectly suited, for the plot. Can't wait to see if another book comes out and what will happen with this duo!