Review: Hard Press'd
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2012
I received a free download of "Hard Press'd", by Linda Rae Blair through the Goodreads Giveaway, to read on my Kindle.This is a detective crime novel with some romance and humour.The story begins when young Macy Roberts is in trouble and arranges to meet someone she believes she can trust. Instead she received two lethal wounds, at close range, one bullet to the throat and one bullet to the head.Her death was quick and unexpected.The position of the body was just like she had lay down to take a nap.The victim was well off, but nothing was taken.There were no witnesses. And later we learn that several young women have disappeared without a trace.A 911 call was placed immediately after the shooting, by a retired navy man hearing and recognizing the shots as gunshots.Detective Preston Andrews (Press),a homicide cop, received the early morning wakeup call.Press was the best detective in the state of Virginia.He teamed up with his new rooky partner, Trace Evans (Trace).Press was the son of a US senator, whose dad had wanted him to go into politics, but he wanted to do his own thing...and be a cop.Press bought his parent's summer home, a mansion, and lived with Lizzie, the housekeeper, Palmer, the butler and Jones his 180 pound DOG.Jones is a riot, and bought alot of humour into the novel. It reminds me of my two Labs and all the trouble they get into.The killer was making very certain that there had been no mistakes made.It was up to Press and Trace along with the FBI to solve this case.This was a very easy read crime detective novel, and I enjoyed it very much.I will definately read some of her other novels.