Yet another take on Los Angeles. This time the Hollywood Hills are home base. Credible character, great atmospherics. The plot line carried me along. When I got to the end I thought...hey, wait a minute but upon reflection, it all fit. I had taken the bait. I'll read another with Lena. I am rarely disappointed when it is a St. Martin's Minotaur pub. ( )

I don't enjoy crime novels but took this on after a friend highly recommended it. Lena Gamble is a protagonist whose addiction to coffee opened the doors to my heart. I loved it. ( )

The Kindle eBook bought July 28th, 2015 had a lot of obvious (scan?) errors, some I send to Amazon. As most or all errors where of the kind that a spellchecker should have caught, I think that and/or an editor was not involved, and even for a cheap book that was distracting. Hopefully for later readers this will corrected.

The book and story was too long with the places and backstory, could have been 20% shorter. Still, a page-turner, with a few twists.
An an insight in the mind of a serial rapist/killer. Also not all people in the book are not just bad or too good to be true, more like something in between.
Big twist in the end I did not see coming, well done with the red-herrings.
For the errors, and being too long, 1 star less. And I would have rather liked that it took place somewhere else, LA again, really? But with the fires very scary and well described. Also the background stories are well integrated not simply jumping back in time.
Although it was late, I did not stop near the end to finish the book, closing it, my bedtime clock showed 1:10 am, with planning to get up again at 7:30 am (which I did, yawn).
Highly recommended, like the heroine and if you can stand the sometimes epic feel of descriptions, and can stand the bloody crimes, give it a try.
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This started out a bit slow because it seemed to "pat". I kept wondering what was to come - there had to be more to the story than the husband killed the wife scenario. It soon changed into a very fast paced, high stress ongoing investigation. ( )

I can't rave about this book. If I had been "reading" it, I might have put it aside for something else, but on audio I enjoyed it. A detective novel with a few interesting twists and turns along the way. I hate admitting this about a book, but it was quite forgettable once it was done.
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