The Kari AnnAlysis

Patrick Bowers is an FBI agent. But he’s into more than motives. Patrick is a geo profiler. He is more of a time and place kind of guy. So when some young women are murdered in Asheville, NC, Bowers is called in.

All the girls have a yellow ribbon tied in their hair and are left with a chess piece near the scene. Always a pawn.

Patrick soon finds himself in a twisted, murdery mess with ties that he can’t quite figure out connecting this series of murders to the Jonestown mass suicide.

And if that doesn’t sound like enough on someone’s plate, Patrick recently lost his wife of less than a year and is raising her teenage daughter. We all know how teenage daughters are.

I downloaded this book on my Nook on a random Friday when it was the free read of the week. Per my last post, I have been in a reading slump. I have read 2-3 books a week for the past three years. This is the first book I’ve finished in two weeks. I could blame change of schedule for a week, or a lot of traveling. But I really think my tastes in reading are changing. I think I’ve just read a lot of one genre in the past year and need to spice it up. So, this was the mots out of the box book I had and boy am I glad I picked it up.

I’m always a fan of books that make me question history and look into the truth. This book has some serious ties to the “revolutionary suicide” by the Jim Jones clan in 1978. Yes, I’ve heard about it, I think we all have. But all I knew was that hundreds died and either drank or injected poisonous kool-aid. Steven James uses this in his book, but brings it back to reprecussions in the 21st century with some pretty serious accusations that will have even the most serious of historians checking their notes again.

The suspense in this book is breathtaking. There were a half dozen different people in this book that I thought was the “Illusionist” as he likes to call himself. They were all twisted and crazy in their own little way.

This was a great book to get me out of my slump and I hope I stay out of it! I am also downloading the other three books in the series. I may have found a new genre to dive into!

ISBN: 978-0800732400
Published: September 1, 2007
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Kari got this book on Free Friday at the Nook Book Store