Review: "When Guilty Pleasures Must Come To An End"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Do you ever feel vulnerable?  Do you relish the private moments alone in your life?  Do you also have a computer with a webcam feature, and do you leave the laptop lid open?  Peek-a-boo!  Someone may be watching you!!  This is the premise of the extremely well-written thriller by Author James Raven. Robyn Tate is getting older: she's 44 years of age, a little overweight, has no men in her life, she has fears of intimacy, and her sole source of sexual satisfaction is watching porn on the internet.  It is a compulsion for her.  She doesn't need a man in her life when she can fulfill her own sexual needs.  Believe it or not, Robyn is a police homicide detective in the Houston, Texas Police Department.  Loneliness off the job is the biggest hurdle she has finally conquered by indulging in social networks on the internet.  Also, online porn is her drug of choice, she does not need alcohol like many of her co-workers.  Her partner, Max Riley, calls her early one morning after her 'self-indulgence' exercise is finished.  A woman's body has been found in Memorial Park and she agrees to meet him there.  She often wondered what it would be like if her co-workers learned about her dirty little secret.  She'd probably have to go far, far away, or face years of humiliation.  Little does Robyn know that she has been spied upon for more than two months by someone who has hacked into her computer and recording her actions.  He also knows all the details of her life, her co-workers, friends, and even information about her bank accounts.  The woman found dead in the park is identified as Charlotte Slater, a woman also spied upon by the same man  as Robyn, who calls himself "The Slave Master."  How can he be stopped or even found? How can Robyn confidently do her job fearing the investigation may lead to the exposure of the videos made by The Slave Master?  Will he be blackmailing her as discovered in the case of Charlotte Slater?  Can Robyn privately find out who The Slave Master is before he reveals her guilty pleasures to family, co-workers, and the world-wide-web?  This is a chilling  story, superbly written, with captivating and unique characters.  The pace is vigorous with twists and turns, storyline is potent, candid, and engaging.  An awesome, captivating novel which I highly recommend.