Review: Good mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
Tainted Waters is a mystery that starts when Sam is fired from her job and discovers strange men snooping around the family’s lake cottage. When she (literally) bumps into Keegan, they decide to team up. Tainted Waters is a good mystery story. Although certain elements of the story become obvious (who the baddie is for example)  to the reader, it is still interesting to watch the story unfold. I liked the character of Sam a lot. She was feisty and tough although I didn’t like that she forgave Keegan so easily for keeping his truth from her.Although I enjoyed the novel, it took me quite a while to get into the story as it starts quite slowly. There are an overabundance of characters introduced in the beginning. I’m not convinced all of the various characters were necessary to tell the story. There was some repetitiveness in the story, which slowed down the story as well. For example, Sam and Keegan were continually getting caught up in the bushes and Sam’s hair was always getting stuck on something. There were also some issues with time/space continuum. In one instance Sam walks to the lake to check her cell phone, but then she’s in the car when she’s talking on the phone. The synopsis of the story is a bit misleading as Sam doesn’t start to worry about whether her father’s suicide was real or not until more than half way through the story. Although this is no way deterred from the story, it was not the novel I expected to read based on the synopsis.I recommend this book to lovers of mystery and suspense.