I really enjoyed One Left Alive and was looking forward to what Detective Morgan Brookes would do next. I wasn’t disappointed.
The Killer’s Girl starts with a flashback that sets the scene for…something. There’s an act of violence but it is difficult to tell what is most important about the event. Is it the suspicions of the victim? The brutal suddenness of the perpetrator?
Or that a child witnessed the entire thing?
The action then switches to the present and another act of violence. (It’s a crime thriller – of course there are going to be multiple crimes).
The answers to the above questions become apparent over the course of the investigation, as Morgan tries to track down the killer.
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This is pretty much a straightforward crime procedural. Morgan has grown into the job a bit, although there is still a bit of a “rookie” feel to her.
That was one thing that jumped out at me. As I mentioned in my review of the previous book Morgan being a rookie led to some of her behaviors being unusual. It was difficult to tell if those were actual characteristics or rookie maneuvers.
In this book, we get the idea that it was actually a little bit of both.
Morgan still asks a lot of questions which is good and bad. On the one hand, it feels like she should know the answers to some of them, because they would be things covered in basic police training.
On the other hand, she doesn’t have a lot of experience, so it’s possible that she either didn’t get that training, or she forgot it in the face of trying to ask the right questions to solve the crime(s).
What it does do, however, is give the reader detailed information about the forensics in the investigation, and that’s always a welcome addition.
As usual, I’m not going to give away the plot points of the crime, but it’s another good one. I find that in crime procedurals, it’s more about the investigation itself – at least, that’s how I look at it.
I do hope that Morgan continues to grow into her position, and I look forward to reading more of her exploits as she continues to solve crimes.
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Helen Phifer lives in a small town called Barrow-in-Furness with her husband and five children.Helen has always loved writing and reading. Her love of horror films and novels is legendary. Helen adores reading books which make the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. Unable to find enough scary stories to read she decided to write her own.
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