Review: "A Fast-Paced Short Story"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2012
This story starts slowly giving some background to Police Detective Gino Canale who joined the force after the suspicious death of both his grandparents 20 years earlier.  As a detective, he becomes aware of a similar death of husband and wife not far away.  He is asked by his boss to meet him at the popular cafe "The Pit Stop" where he is briefed on the recent double homicide. With some paranormal apparitions distorting his vision and senses, just being in the cafe activates memories of his past.  His boss stresses the similarity between the four deaths. From there the story moves swiftly along, keeping the reader entranced.  It's a detective/mystery/paranormal tale that holds you to your seat until the killer is identified.  At that point, it explains too quickly who 'done it' and why.  The increased mention of relatives and characters kind of threw me off center a bit, as if it was a race to finish the story within so many words.  But I liked it, and based on the author's popularity in her outstanding full-length novels, I shall read more of her works.