In case you missed it, I have just released the next three books in the Parks Pat Mysteries series: Immersed in the View, Skimming over the Lake, and Hazard of the Hills. Check them out and get your copies today! Read my blog post for other new releases while you are at it.
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I am currently reading The Steel Kiss, a Lincoln Rhyme book by Jeffery Deaver. I have read one or two books in this series before, and they are very satisfying police procedural mysteries. I was irritated with Rhyme at one point in this book for failing to see a legal point, but he eventually got there after a number of false turns. He’s supposed to be brilliant, so I expect him to see such issues immediately. For this case, Rhyme has actually retired from the police force, but he ends up helping out his old partner Amelia Sachs anyway, when Rhyme’s civil suit and Sachs’s serial killer turn out to both be part of the same case.
Good, three dimensional characters in a vibrant New York setting. Even though this is book 12 in the series, you do not feel lost, each character and plot point is introduced with enough detail that you have the information you need to enjoy the case as a stand-alone mystery.
She had never seen such a hopeless look in anyone’s eyes.
Jeffrey Deaver, The Steel Kiss
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks.
They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons. As the body count threatens to grow, Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identity—and discover his mission—before more people die.
