Review: Enjoyable withproblems as noted
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 24, 2012
A Deadly Blessing, Kindle Edition by Kathy Bennett is an police story set in Los Angeles.Maddie Divine and her partner Darius Cutter are the top detective team working `Adult Missing Persons'. Summarily, they are called to a meeting with the Chief of Police and City's Mayor. Upon arriving, they are informed that the Governor is arriving shortly. He arrives and explains Tiffany, his daughter, is suffering from aplastic anemia and the woman who is her bone marrow doner is missing.The story revolves around attempting to find the woman and unfolds in an interesting manner, with constant action and an interesting array of characters with interwoven relationships. The Governor, who lost his wife some time ago, and the Mayor, who is beautiful, ambitious and originally from the barrio, are dating and both have thoughts of the White House. Mattie and her husband Travis, love each other, but both carry a heavy psychological load. He is a former SWAT officer with orders to remain at home because he has developed a psychological problem. Mattie also carries a heavy psychological load about which we learn later. Additional characters include a shady, vicious entrepreneur and his associates, a former gang leader, now a `do-gooder', friends of Tiffany and several supportive characters -  all with their own agendas, but such that they play into the main plot.The author has provided a fast moving plot and characters with whom the reader can equate. However, it is a little `drawn out' and skirts the edges of credibility. Reviewed by John H. Manhold award winning fiction/non-fiction author.