This is Chevy's first short story so I really didn't give it a 5 start because I feel like I should have read Always Watching first. So in saying that, this is a really good short story and now I am off to read Always watching. ( )

Everybody who knows me knows that I am an advocate for short books. I don't like when the writer goes on and on and on for no apparent reason. However, this book was painfully short (and unoriginal). I think at least five crime shows had this plot last week alone. Being unoriginal is ok up to some point. After all we all go for similar books, since our taste doesn't change that often. However writing a book so short that ends faster than fashion wave for men in tights?



The story is about Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie and Staff Sergeant Sandy McBride- don't believe this. Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie's part is smaller than anyone else in the book. Everybody in the book is or was beautiful other than Sergeant Sandy McBride. She is beautiful too, but can't admit it or the book will lose it's seriousness. Sergeant Sandy McBride is trying to solve a serial rapist/killer case by working with his daughter. She witnessed her mom's horrible rape and murder in the past. She is not all there. She blames her father for the crime. She somehow becomes a sergeant and works on her mom's case on her free time (her father is still missing). The first case is solved by itself when she gets hit in the head and loses the child she suppose to protect:



Since she was no help with the first one, she moves to the next case (her mom's). That also get resolved after talking to one witness. Thank god the woman was dying of cancer and wanted to get it out of her chest. With one or two pages left, writer also gives us the happy news of her pregnancy.

This is it- there was potential- just wasn't used. ( )

This was a short-ebook short story novella--I actually read after reading ALWAYS WATCHING. (should have read it prior to). I was familiar with Nadine, the psychiatrist (Always Watching), and Sergeant Sandy McBride Never Knowing).

Sandy is working on the big case (Campfire Killer),as she gets closer gets a call about her mother's murder as she is pulled back into her past she thought was buried. A quick intense suspense with two strong characters - offering a teaser of Always Watching-which I recommend.

http://judithdcollins.booklikes.com/post/836314/-alwayswatching


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