Review: Great dialog, good characters, intriguing plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2013
I was persuaded by the reviews I found on this book to download the sample chapter - and from then I just read on to the end. I found this book extremely interesting and spellbinding. It starts in Mexico many years back when a codex is discovered and, yes, you guessed it, a number of murders follow. But why? And what is this codex?This book then gets the old juices flowing in the brain again, as you try to piece together where the author is taking you, and its connection to the events many years past in Mexico.What stole the show for me in this book was not so much the plot, which was intriguing, but the characters (Detective Steve Sumner is dead-pan and cool!), and the really good dialog the author strings together. It's almost addictive listening to the conversations between the characters as they try to unravel what is going on. It takes a while to really figure out what is going on, but there is enough intrigue and suspense to get you to turn each page. And just when you think "I gotta go to bed and get some sleep", the pace picks up to an exhilarating climax. OMG, I was up to 2 in the morning with this one. A good read that doesn't let you go.