Review: A sordid crime noir masterpiece
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
Doom-laden from the beginning, and filled with more dread than any 10 (or 100) NY-published crime novels, Sacrifices is really classic noir as the characters scramble fruitlessly to keep from tumbling into the abyss.As with Defending Jacob, Sacrifices asks the question of how far a parent would go to allow a child to get away with murder. In Sacrifices, though, there's no question that the adult child brutally murdered a young woman in the midst of a steroid-fueled rage. The decision that his parents make early on in this highly suspenseful, twisty novel trigger a cascade of tragic events which kept me guessing until the last page how all this was going to resolve. Highly recommended!