Review: Gripping and suspenseful!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
When Detective Lexie Rogers began work in the Bondi Junction detectives’ office, she was back from her recuperation of a violent stabbing by a bikie currently being held in jail. Lexie had just escaped with her life, and her terror had faded somewhat – but the nightmares were still there. She was hoping her return to work in a different office with different work mates would help her troubled state of mind. She was determined to put it behind her, as best she could – she would be a witness at the upcoming trial but hoped getting into the adrenalin rush of the job would ease her mind.But accompanying other detectives while they executed a search warrant on the Devil’s Guardians clubhouse was not her idea of easing back into work. The bikie boss, Rex Donaldson, was a big, intimidating man – very like her attacker of a few months before. And when he went ballistic after drugs were found on the premises, and Lexie was injured in the melee, her conviction that bikies were thugs she needed to stay away from became terrifyingly clear.When suddenly one of the bikies was murdered, with Lexie hearing the man’s dying words, the rival bikie gang, the Assassins, was well in the spotlight for the murder. Josh Harrison, Lexie’s immediate superior and also temporary partner was finding the bikie “code of silence” was working extremely well – but not for the police. With tensions escalating, the dangers were also mounting – Rex’s trashy, foul mouthed and angry girlfriend, Kate, was very pregnant – another of Rex’s mates couldn’t locate his girlfriend – she had gone missing as well. Would Rex take matters into his own hands before someone else was killed? Did he know who the murderer was? And was Lexie’s life in danger too because she knew too much?This debut novel by Aussie author Karen M. Davis was a thoroughly entertaining read. My only criticism is that Lexie was annoying at times – she dwelt for too long on her inner turmoil. Which of course she would have, given the trauma she had been through. But other than that, it was a gripping and suspenseful read, a great thriller. I have no hesitation in recommending this novel to all lovers of this genre.