Review: A Deadly Pied Piper is Leading Kids to the Land of the Dead
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
KaNeishia Michelle's 'The Playmate' may look like one of the many police procedurals out there - and to a certain extent it is. The Playmate is a serial-child abductor who focuses on 8 year old girls, plays sinister games with them, tortures, and kills them. What makes this story so different is the protagonist - Brynn Smith. She's a gritty police officer with a past tie to the Playmate - she managed to escape from his clutches. Twenty years later, she still bears the psychological scars of her experience and, when the Playmate comes out of hiding and begins to abduct little girls again, the scared 8-year-old inside her comes out to cloud her thoughts and bedevil her life.While she tries to find the murderer, Brynn has to deal with bitter associates, a nosy reporter, and her own personal demons. After a series of failures, she makes the decision to offer herself up as a sacrificial lamb to the Playmate...and hopes he takes the bait.The book also ties in with two other novel's in the author's universe - Ruck's Nightmare and The Chase - in a way that's not obtrusive and thoroughly pleasing to her loyal fans. If you're a fan of hard-nosed police thrillers and psychological thrillers, this is your book. Five Stars.