Last year (2011) I discovered 3 mystery/suspense authors who write about death in Seattle (Washington). I live in Vancouver, BC so Seattle is not so far away making the killer quite literally next door.
Kevin O'Brien started writing at night while he worked in the day as a railroad inspector. After his novel ONLY SON won an award, and was optioned for a film he quit his day job. From then on he turned to writing full-time.
I discovered Keven O'Brien's novels when I was looking up up Gregg Olsen's books. I love that like Olsen's his novels are stand alone and are a bit grittier than some other novels.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/kevin-obrien/
WATCH THEM DIE
3 STARS
Single women in Seattle are being brutally murdered by a man who sees them and then must possess them.
A great suspense thriller that has you reading until the murderer is caught.
FINAL BREATH
3 STARS
People
have been dying in the most bizarre manners...what becomes clear is the
pattern of the victims appearing on Sydney Jordan's television program.
Sydney has moved out of her home and taken her son to Seattle where
her brother is living. Sydney feels like someone is watching her and
when she finds out all the victims are connected to her show - she knows
she maybe next unless she finds out his motivation for their murder.
SPOILER:
It was really good BUT the killer was easy to guess as he provided a
little too much about the story and the murder themselves were such a
big clue.
VICIOUS
2 STARS
For
two years in Seattle - young mothers are being killed right in front of
their young sons - execution style. Then the murders stop. Susan is
looking forward to a weekend away with her fiancee and her young son.
Things start off on the wrong foot when a strange man comes on strong,
her car is tampered with, the lake house feels odd, there was a murder a
year ago and now Allen seems to be missing.
This
novel felt forced right from the beginning. Susan's character did not
seem fleshed out and there seemed to be too many "suspects". I felt
like it was more of B-Movie.
DISTURBED
3 STARS
Molly
is newly married to a divorced man with two children still living in
the home his ex decorated. When her stepson's guidance counsellor is
murdered things start to come apart for everyone living in the
cul-de-scac. Secrets, lies and revenge are all in play while there is
also a serial killer loose killing families who live in cul-de-sacs.
First
of I liked this novel but found much wrong with it at the same time.
After finishing the novel I still have no clue what the prologue was
supposed to explain to me. After a few chapters I figured out the
murderer but the author was clever enough to keep me intrigued and
reading. Molly was a but annoying as she always seemed steps behind
everything in her life, but I liked her stepson, Chris as a character.
I am on the hunt for Make Them Cry.
http://www.kevinobrienbooks.com/love,
kris
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