Friday, July 14, 2006
Blown Away
Oh yeah. Give me a nice serial killer book and some uninterrupted quiet time and I'm happy.
Unfortunately the uninterrupted quiet time isn't happening in my house any more and it almost killed me to have to keep putting this book down.
Blown Away by Shane Gericke is about a seriously sick guy who has it in for a rookie cop named Emily Thompson. He keeps setting up murder scenes to depict games Emily played in her childhood, like Clue, Operation, and Chutes and Ladders. When they realize all of this is leading up to a showdown on Emily's birthday, only a few days away, the tension ratchets up with each new crime scene and Emily has to scour her past to figure out who this guy is.
Emily is convincing as an older rookie cop who wants to do well at her job and please her employers. She is horrified that people are dying in order to deliver some sort of message from the killer.
Flashbacks show the killer and Emily with their families and attempt to explain the grudge the killer has with her. They are brief and integral to the story, explaining much of Emily's personality as well as his.
It was hard to believe this book is Gericke's debut. The plotting was tight and the characters are well-drawn and believable. I enjoyed it immensely.
Unfortunately the uninterrupted quiet time isn't happening in my house any more and it almost killed me to have to keep putting this book down.
Blown Away by Shane Gericke is about a seriously sick guy who has it in for a rookie cop named Emily Thompson. He keeps setting up murder scenes to depict games Emily played in her childhood, like Clue, Operation, and Chutes and Ladders. When they realize all of this is leading up to a showdown on Emily's birthday, only a few days away, the tension ratchets up with each new crime scene and Emily has to scour her past to figure out who this guy is.
Emily is convincing as an older rookie cop who wants to do well at her job and please her employers. She is horrified that people are dying in order to deliver some sort of message from the killer.
Flashbacks show the killer and Emily with their families and attempt to explain the grudge the killer has with her. They are brief and integral to the story, explaining much of Emily's personality as well as his.
It was hard to believe this book is Gericke's debut. The plotting was tight and the characters are well-drawn and believable. I enjoyed it immensely.
# posted by Kim Reis @ 12:11 PM 
