Review: Strong Woman & strong plot.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Drusilla Thorne & her Sister Stevie are two battered women who have lived through extremely traumatizing times & came out the other side changed possibly damaged for ever. Because I like strong women I liked the main character Drusilla she has a take no prisoners type of style yet she reins it in as dead bodies everywhere are hard to answer for to the police not to mention the unwanted attention this garners from the press. She & Stevie live to not be discovered so leaving the criminal, who maybe needed to die, alive has plus written all over it!This first book is a novella introducing you to the characters, their problems, conflicts, & for now how they are resolving their problems. The plot is very well written! The reader gets to witness the gradual transformation of Drusilla & Stevie from scared & running Sisters to gradually adjusting to maybe staying awhile in one place instead of constantly moving. A new idea for the both of them.The story is gritty, grimy, & not kitten cute but the author makes her points without graphic detail instead she is subtle in her showing of a Voyeur handyman. The author allows us the reader to view this sick behavior from the victims side. She also shows how women can be fooled into thinking they have a situation in hand, the girls landlady, when in reality the drama is out of control!The mystery is always in the front of the story even when you aren't aware of it till later then you find yourself thinking "oh yeah I remember that!"Strong, gritty, & not Kitten cute as these books are you won't be able to put them down. I had to find out what was going to happen next. I liked the fact that the novella, Book 1 & Book 2 have beginnings & endings no cliff hangers.If you don't read another mystery this Summer these books are the only ones you should read for total fulfillment. Diane Patterson knows how to write a mystery that is unlike any I've read before.