Review: A real page turner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
In the district attorney's office ADA's are assigned to be on call on a rotating schedule to attend homicide scenes.  They refer to this as the Homicide Chart.I enjoyed this book.  The characters are unique and well defined.  We have the ADA Dana, her husband Evan who is also an attorney for a publishing house, their son Travis (aka Tug). A very nice family with hectic lives.  The family has a live in au pair from Holland Anneke who is a young woman with a secret in her past.  She is the character who invokes sympathy.  When her past catches up with her via her stalker she also catches the reader's protective instincts.  For comic relief we have the author at publishing house being sued by by an old high school classmate claiming the book is about her and claims some things in the book are lies.A thoroughly captivating sub plot follows a trial that Dana is prosecuting with enough intrigue to keep the reader turning pagesI enjoy a book with surprises and Homicide Chart is full of them.  The reader knows what is happening before the characters do.  I had to know how the characters would react when they knew what I did.  This is one of the factors that made this book a real page turner.  I enjoyed that fact that there was very little profanity.  Naturally a murder mystery has violent scenes and I appreciated that fact this was not graphic.  This makes it a book that is easy to recommend.  I'd be comfortable allowing my teenage daughter read it and I would have no hesitation in purchasing the book for my 85 year old grandmother.I received a copy of this book for free on exchange for this honest review.