Helpful Score: 2
The only problem with this book was it ended. And Connor doesn't have another book in the Diane Fallon series due until February of 2008! It's going to be a very long year while I wait for another book from one of my favorite authors.
I eagerly wait for every Connor book but especially books in the Diane Fallon series. Diane is an anthropologist who is the director of the Rivertrails Natural History Museum. But she also wears another hat as the director of the Rosewood Crime Lab, a lab that's housed in the museum she runs on what insiders affectionately term the "dark side".
This book found Diane investigating the explosion at a meth lab not far from her own home. Someone was cooking meth in the basement of a converted house when it exploded in their face. Tragic enough to begin with but when the house was in the midst of a party for students of a local college the body count goes from one, potentially two to a possibility of thirty or more. And it's up to Diane and her team to identify the dead in a town where everyone knows everybody else and the body in front of you may be a loved one.
I didn't like the blurb on the back cover of this book. I don't think it did the complexity of this story justice. Yes, the book does involve a young woman who's been the victim not once but twice but for all we see her throughout the book the main investigation deals with the meth lab and sorting out the suspects from the innocent and how more deaths intertwine with one another. This is one book I think you have to read without any knowledge from the back of the book; otherwise you might be waiting like I was for a plotline that only developed in the last 100 or so pages.
I eagerly wait for every Connor book but especially books in the Diane Fallon series. Diane is an anthropologist who is the director of the Rivertrails Natural History Museum. But she also wears another hat as the director of the Rosewood Crime Lab, a lab that's housed in the museum she runs on what insiders affectionately term the "dark side".
This book found Diane investigating the explosion at a meth lab not far from her own home. Someone was cooking meth in the basement of a converted house when it exploded in their face. Tragic enough to begin with but when the house was in the midst of a party for students of a local college the body count goes from one, potentially two to a possibility of thirty or more. And it's up to Diane and her team to identify the dead in a town where everyone knows everybody else and the body in front of you may be a loved one.
I didn't like the blurb on the back cover of this book. I don't think it did the complexity of this story justice. Yes, the book does involve a young woman who's been the victim not once but twice but for all we see her throughout the book the main investigation deals with the meth lab and sorting out the suspects from the innocent and how more deaths intertwine with one another. This is one book I think you have to read without any knowledge from the back of the book; otherwise you might be waiting like I was for a plotline that only developed in the last 100 or so pages.
