Review: Enticingly Evil
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2012
I read this Novelette on the best night to read it....Ms Stroud submitted this quick political thriller and I took it home to read on Election Eve. Did this have an affect on me?  It certainly did. The Prologue opens with Jonathan King sitting by his penthouse window whispering to himself, "Soon, It should all be over soon." I get an eerie feeling at those words as I have read Ms Stroud's book, Devil's Moon, previously.We meet twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Matt Dawson, vomiting at a crime scene. He was looking at a corpse where the man's chest was ripped to shreds, his face a bloody pulp, his throat slit. Naked from the waist down, his penis was cut in half and on his stomach was written in bright pink nail polish, "One Down and Six to go!" Wow, was that a statement or what?The deceased was none other than a United States Senator, Lyle Bronson, age 56. The President of the United States, James Drake, was informed of the murder by his press secretary, Arnie Whitman. He was told by the President to issue the standard press release of condolences. Arnie looked at the President and asked, "Doesn't this worry you?" and President Drake replied, "Not really".The methodical killing and suicides of five of the men surrounding the President was a very daunting story. To continue any further as to the whys and wherefores would certainly spoil this for any thriller reader. So,  as I watched my TV screen with its own story playing out Election Night 2012, I read this chilling story and shook my head and wondered:  "Could this really ever happen?"My pet peeve is that this author gave me a 24-page "thought flash" and I could have really read more. Suffice to say, the story certainly held my attention.....Review by Gloria LakritzReview Chair and Sr Reviewer for the Paranormal Romance Guild