Review: Has the potential to be a great story.....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
A rookie deputy throws a sheet over the dead body of Julie Miler. Will this contaminate the evidence or has there been even more serious contamination at the scene of the crime that some people want to keep quiet about?!Monroe Lovett, is the new defense attorney in Peregrine, Mississippi. Debbie, his wife is also his secretary. Both have been praying for his first client, never dreaming it would be a murder case.Ashley Butler, on arriving at Monroe's office, does not get time to fully explain everything before she is arrested and charged with the murder. Is she sad that Julie is dead? No! Julie was sleeping with her husband, Marcus Butler, Jr! Did she commit the crime though? She says she didn't and Monroe believes her but can he prove it?Why has a man been abducted and taken to a deserted hunting cabin? Who is he? Who is his interrogator?How can Ed Hermann, a retired police detective help Monroe?As I said in the title, this story has the potential to be a really good one and I actually enjoyed it, for the most part. A well thought out and executed storyline that will drag you and keep you reading until the end. Monroe and Debbie are still very much in love after 20 years of marriage and work well together which is wonderful to read and refreshing. However there is a LOT of sexual innuendo in this book between them and I think it was a little overkill when Herm walks in on them just about to "christen" the office couch. Herm doesn't see anything except that Debbie has her shirt all buttoned up wrong and Monroe needs to sit behind a desk to hide his arousal.The major problem is that this book needs a good proof reader. There is missing punctuation, misspelled words or incorrect uses (for e.g. shuttered should be shuddered) and tense changes in paragraphs occasionally. I have read far worse and these errors really do not distract from the story but it would be a much better read if corrected.Language? Mild. "Piss off" is the harshest you will read.Struggled as to whether to give this 3 or 4 stars due to the errors BUT decided on 4 as the storyline really is a good one.