Review: A crime mystery with quite an ending
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
Someone has been torturing and killing women, and cops Lacey and John go undercover into the seedy part of town to try to corner the killer. They have a main suspect -- the proprietor of a club called Hell's Door, who is into some dark and naughty stuff -- but it will take some time and clever effort to prove anything. In the meantime, the murders continue on.It took me a little time to finish this book, as I put it aside a few times; Sandy DeLuca's writing is very good, but I prefer stories with a supernatural element and this is more along the lines of a crime drama. We get introduced very early to the mind of the killer, so it seemed that there wouldn't be too many surprises, but whoa, was I wrong. The story really picks up momentum and interest after the mid-way point. As the end came in sight, I had a little revelation about the direction it was going, but I didn't anticipate how it actually turned out. "Surprise ending" puts it almost too mildly; "shocking" wouldn't be too far off. It was so surprising that I had to go back and re-read the last few pages; I wasn't quite sure that I was comprehending it correctly, but it certainly made the book well worth reading.