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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Once upon A Crime by Alan Brenham

 This crime thriller started out well and then it shifted into a frustrating and disappointing conclusion. 


Detective Madison Chase is on the hunt for a serial killer who is targeting sex offenders. The unknown suspect sends poems to the police giving hints about the next murder and signs them P.G. A witness can only say that the killer is a woman. It also seems that this villain is focused on Madison and her daughter, Emily. 


The chapters are short and there are a lot of different characters with various points of view in the narrative. Madison and her ex-husband are engaged in a custody issue with their daughter and that takes up way too much of the book and the voice of Emily in the story was far too ridiculous for her age and I really got annoyed with that. The twist was out of nowhere and completely unbelievable considering that the reader has been in that person's mind. 


Anyway, the book was good until the last half when it veered off and never recovered for me. This was an ARC. 

This is a standalone and is not part of any series.

Genre - crime thriller, sexual predators, serial killer

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