1st to die

Lindsay Boxer is a tough, but sympathetic homicide detective who along with three friends are trying to solve horrific murders. Someone is killing brides and grooms on their honeymoons, and Lindsay and her friends form the Women's Murder Club. They are trying to stop this killer before he strikes again. ( )

Bastante buena y entretenida, un acierto lo del Club de las Mujeres contra el Crimen y espero leer la siguiente parte. Lo que menos me ha gustado ha sido la relación amorosa y sexual que mete con la protagonista, me sigue pareciendo meter sexo con calzador porque es “lo que vende”. Por lo demás, me ha enganchado bastante. ( )

(2001)First book of Women's Murder Club series. OK story by an author I have yet to be impressed by.

It was OK -
The audio for this was pretty terrible. It sounded like a 3rd party recording of an audio book.
The plot was OK. I figured it out well before the end. With all that said I'll give the second book a try and see how the relationships of the women of the murder club develop. ( )

I give it 3.5 stars, almost 4. I enjoyed it and there were cool twists. I think I will read more in this series before deciding if I will read the whole series.
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I had to come back to this review to give more detail (just in case the author reads it).

This writer has a GREAT plot, and I love how it twists and then twists again. I love the strong women and how he's started developing their characters. These plots are just as intricately woven as Stephen King's and it is such a relief to find an author that does this without the novel having to be horror. Additionally, the characters maintain their defintion and I can still identify with them, even after all the twists instead of everything devolving into some vague alien interaction.

As I read more of this author, I look forward to seeing his characters develop more and to see improvements in the timing and more elaborate sub-plots. The twists came very late in the book and were wrapped up in a very few pages. I loved the twists, they were so exciting, and I would have enjoyed savoring them for longer.

This writer has a ton of promise. I haven't read anything before that could touch Stephen King's talent for plot complexity, and I really prefer the subject matter. ( )