David Freas's Reviews > Killer Image

This wasn’t a bad book but it was far from great.

The plot – the satanic appearing murder of a win-at-all-costs divorce lawyer by the Goth daughter of a Senate candidate – was good.

There were places where the narrative felt disjointed, as if paragraphs were missing. And places where they were out of sequence, like in the last chapter where Allison notes that a girl she had worked with earlier had gotten out of Philadelphia before she’s told the girl moved to Colorado.

An extensive cast of characters, many with similar names (ones beginning with S or M mainly) and similar looks, made keeping them straight hard. Adding to this problem, some of them appeared early in the book, disappeared until they popped up for a brief appearance around the middle, and disappeared again until almost the end.

Clues, too, seemed to appear out of nowhere, yet the reader never got a clear picture of where they came from or how the main characters tied them together to identify the killer. Tyson got around that by having the killers pretty much spill their guts to Allison.

Two stars only because I can’t rate it 1½ – disappointing.

And that’s why I won’t be back for more of these books.