This is a crime thriller and the 13th (to my sorrow) in a series.
The fog is thick. Crazy thick. So for the
fisherman to have found his body was luck. It looks like another victim who has
been tortured, had the skin removed from their back, and been dumped. Well, if
it’s the work of a serial killer, then the number one expert needs to be called
in.
Cue Agent Kane, she who has solved similar
odd mysteries. Agents Kane and Kang head off to Yuba City to assist the local
police department with this new victim. And their enquiries will lead them to
many dead ends that always land up in the fog. It seems the killer needs the
skin from the victims’ backs for something, but with the number of
possibilities out there, narrowing it down seems hopeless. Until hard work and intuition
leads them to a possible suspect, who may be blind, which sets in motion a
chain of events that could be the undoing of one of their finest. And bring
home someone they thought dead…
So yes, it was to my sorrow that I found
out this was in a series. Sorrow because I picked the book up on a giveaway and
now, like Robert J. Crane’s books, I’m going to have to work the series into my
budget to find out what happens next!
The book’s main section finished quite a
bit before the end so I wondered if there was a section to the next book, only
to find out the parallel story within the book led to a cliffhanger for the
next one. The writing in the book was really easy and comfortable to read in
that I could just get lost in the story and not be stopped by major proofing
errors or story inconsistencies. The story itself is (unfortunately) not that
far-fetched and people have killed for ideas like this. So it was one of those reminders
to be careful and also thank the members of law enforcement for their skills.
While not on my list of best-sellers, this
definitely made some reading time go by quickly, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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