Review: Great book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
Having read the collection of six short stories, "Cutting Right to the Chase", by this author, I was really curious to dive into her next book "Into the Killer Sphere". I found the protagonist, Chase, already quite charming from the start, from the glimpse I got from the short stories, so I was interested to see how he would deal if he were presented with a beefy case, not a small ordinary crime, but a real murder.Well, I was not disappointed! Inspector Alumni needs to figure out who killed Piero Galli and calls for the help of Chase, who reluctantly agrees. As Chase is not a police officer, his role is more of a background one, or at least, that's what it seems. Still, he has the ability to ask the right questions to the right people at the right time, and this includes the suspects, the forensics team, his own colleagues. I had the impression that for a guy who was called in to 'give a hand' he was actually doing more than his fair share. He's clearly a dedicated hero, someone who truly cares about finding the truth.I was trying to picture who the murderer was from the start, and even when there was a second attempt at killing, I was far from the truth. The end was a surprise for me and I was really fascinated by how Chase had managed to figure it all out, from such small clues, and put all the pieces of the puzzle together. This was a great book, I will definitely want to read more about Chase and further cases he will have to solve in the future.