Review: Good premise, but comes up short on many facets
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
Decent psychological thriller that has quite a few tense parts, but comes up short overall. The story lacks any action...other than one murder that takes place on the side of a road at a park, and the time Kristi is shopping and thinks she's being followed in the parking lot. The rest is virtually all dialogue, conversation, and inner thoughts. Too many characters are introduced and described in detail, but most end up completely irrelevant to the main story (The antique store owner is a good example). The detective work was laughable, too...a basic video security system in her apartment or a quick check of phone records could have led them to the perp before he killed more people in Kristi's circle of friends and acquaintances. Ditto for the aforementioned roadside murder in the park...how difficult would it have been to see who called the victim to come help? Although the author managed to spread the suspicion on a few different men, I had the bad guy figured out at about the halfway mark. The climax was OK, but could have been better. (SPOILER: And I hate when cliffhangers appear in the epilogue!)