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Jan 06, 2015emerge rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is a fast paced, easy read about a Boston homicide cop who takes a job in Bearkill, Maine because of events from her past. There she has to deal with drunken locals, a handful of dead ex-cops, feds looking for a meth lab, kidnapping, vandalism, more dead guys & one really smelly dog. There's a lot of action & maybe too many story lines because when everything is neatly tied up at the end, you might have to suspend your disbelief that it was all related. Also, the author has a habit of interjecting the MC's inner monologue into the middle of dialogue. Conversations on the page are interrupted by long italicized sections of Lizzie's thoughts at the time which swing from fretting over her personal investigation to lusting after an ex-lover (who's a weasel, by the way). It's a stylistic technique made by the author but I found it distracting. But it does get better as the book progresses & Lizzie becomes more likeable as she settles into small town life. The author has established characters & setting with this book and a couple of those angles look promising so I'll probably pick up the next one to see where Lizzie ends up.