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Baek Jang-Mi is the female leader of an international pickpocket gang. Her target is to broaden her...
The Clairvoyant Countess
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In The Clairvoyant Countess, the bestselling author of the beloved Mrs. Pollifax series gives us the...
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated My Name in TV
Dec 5, 2021
After her somewhat absent father's murder, a young woman driven by vengeance seeks out help from a powerful crime boss. Trained by his men in close combat, she enters the police force under his orders in an attempt to find her fathers killer and exact revenge.
Starring: Han So-hee; Park Hee-soon; Ahn Bo-hyun
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The Lost (Jonah Colley #1)
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A MISSING CHILD Ten years ago, the disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young...
The Prime Suspect (Sam MacKade PI #1)
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Four years after Bryce’s cheating husband is gunned down, her boyfriend-stealing former...
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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Quadrophenia (1979) in Movies
Jul 28, 2023
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Devil's Chimney (Detective Rutherford Barnes #1) in Books
Dec 18, 2022
With a gritty plot and excellent and well developed characters, this is a great addition to the police procedural genre. The pace is a little steady to begin with and it took me a while to get into it, but it certainly ramps up to what is a tense and very satisfying finish.
Thanks go to Joffe Books and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of Devil's Chimney.
Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated 36 Hours in Books
Feb 4, 2020
Christian Price is a serial killer, though that is not his real name and no one has realized the deaths are all connected. Yet. Christian is not killing because he likes to kill, no, he does this because he feels he has to. In his opinion, many local police forces are incompetent or lack the drive to solve missing person cases and Christian has decided to motivate them. He does this by kidnapping a woman and called it into the police to find her within a limited amount of time or else she dies. The first one usually doses. He then continues this pattern with another woman, usually not going past three victims is one area, until the police are successful after which he moves to a different city. Things are a little bit different in Atlanta though.
Brooke Madison is terrified of parking garages, especially after her friend and co-worker Sandra McIntyre was abducted from the garage and later killed. Brooke and Sandra had both been taking self-defense classes together but it doesn't appear to help. Sadly Brooke discovers first hand how easy it was for Sandra to be abducted when it happens to her as well. Now she is trapped in a Wearhouse somewhere, the next in line in a series of experiments to jump-start the police’s interest again, Will they find her before the time is up or will Christian take yet another victim?
It would appear that the author did their homework because the book made sense. While I would have liked more details on a few things I prefer this approach compared to those who just guess and come up with situations that would never possibly work. In this case, I believe the author found a nice balance. Multiple time limits take place during this book and I was expecting just one well-detailed one. Also, the back of the book mentions how Christian suffered a tragedy that was unsolved by police and that is why he does this. The defining tragedy gets very little recognition when it is a big piece of backstory.
Young adults will enjoy this book the most. It has very little in the lines of gore or inappropriate content. Overall it is a nice mid-grade crime/mystery book. It is great for those that want a decent book without it being super long. I rate this book 2 out of 4. It was not what I was expecting. While it was a good read, the content spanned over a much longer time than what the book leads readers to believe. Also, the lack of diving into Christian’s backstory was disappointing at best.
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous...
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