Helpful Score: 3
Amazing!
This is a book for daylight reading. I was intrigued by Mr. Freeman's "The Bone House." So many twist and turns throughout the book, so many times I really wanted to scream in anticipation of what I thought was to come, but I was usually wrong, but the scream would have been necessary anyway. This is the first book I have read by Mr. Freeman, but it won't be the last as I have already received the next one from Paperback Swap. If you are a reader of thriller mysteries you will love his books. As I said in the beginning, I think his books would be enjoyed more in the daytime as you could lose a few nights of sleep if read as bedtime reading.
It pains me to write s as I am a huge fan of Brian Freeman's work, but this one was horrible. I got 150 pages into it and it pained me to pick it up. I felt that I knew what was going to happen and the writing to me was so poor that even if I didn't figure it out and there was going to be a great twist, I didn't want to hang around to find out what it was. By far the worst book I have read by this author. I am not sure what happened, but it left nothing to the imagination had unlikeable characters at every level and just left me dissatisfied. In my opinion, a must miss.
A great kick off to a series introducing Cab Bolton (rich, wandering, police detective) A death at a dance competition sets off a chain of events dating back six years. A small town death, a missing murderer, and a teacher accused of inappropriate behavior with a student is all mixed in this mystery. Lots of layers and intrigue with a dash of mistrust. A study on how far people will go to protect secrets, lies, and murders in a tight knit community where outsiders aren't welcome.
Liked this book very much, well written so that you won't see it coming as to who the killer is, it is slow moving and a lot of description but I did a lot of speed reading on those pages and didn't miss a thing, might've been shorter by 50 pages or more if it was more condensed and not so much descriptions
