Review: Melissa Miller and Sasha have done it again!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
Have you ever listened to hype about an upcoming event only to have it fall short of your expectations? I, along with many others, have been eagerly awaiting the fifth novel in the Sasha McCandless series by Melissa Furrer Miller, "Improper Influence". This novel greatly exceeded my expectations and I finished reading it in one day, I was so engrossed in it. The book opens with Bodhi King, a forensic pathologist in Pittsburgh looking at the dead body of a 22 year old female. She, like at least two other young women died of myocarditis, a rare heart infection. He soon discovers his files on the previous autopsies he did on two of the other victims are missing. It isn't long before Sasha McCandless and her fiance, Leo Connelly and Sasha's legal assistant, Naya, are eyeballs deep in a political morass reaching right up to the Pittsburgh mayor's office. Death, politics, legal maneuvering between Sasha and her former employers, Prescott and Talbott and some red herrings combine to give the reader goose bumps waiting for the conclusion. Very well written and a 5 star rating!!