Review: Poor opening followed by a terrific story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
The first 25-40-or-so pages needed an editor. Author said three times the protagonist's mother asked her daughter, Kim, to come home because she has something important to tell her but not on the phone. It turned out to be significant, but three times was overkill. Every other line was about her cat. Kim even talked, literally, to the cat carrier not to her cat. In retrospect, talking to the cat demonstrated Kim's loneliness, which later had relevance, but at the beginning, it taxed my patience. When I read about her mother's keys, I thought stupid, and I began doubting whether I could finish the book. And then the exciting story came on like a sudden storm. After that I was hooked. Murders, a romantic triangle. . . . You will be hooked, too.Barbara C. Johnson author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice