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Chargement... The Body Counter (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, 2) (édition 2018)par Anne Frasier (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I'm shocked this is rated higher than the first book because I couldn't put it down. This one moved so incredibly slow! I started skimming early on. Jude's crazy behavior made no sense to me and wasn't fun to read about. I think I'll stop right here. The first book is one of my all time favorites. ( ) I haven't read the first book in this series, The Body Reader, but you get enough information in this book to get the gist of that story. Detective Jude Fontaine was kidnapped and held captive for three years. But, she got away and is now working again, although her ordeal is still causing problems like nightmares and a dislike of people touching her. In The Body Counter is she and her partner Uriah Ashby, (Yeah I can't stop thinking Uriah Heep) after a madman that is killing people, at first what it seems like a random pattern. Then, a math professor tells them his theory. Which makes a frightening pattern with increasing numbers of murders. The book is good, I found the story interesting and engaging. However, part of me feels that this wounded heroine theme, a female detective with demons in the past (not actually demons, unfortunately, that would have been interesting) is everywhere now. I read a lot of books like this and that means that they have to really feel different, or at least truly grab me for me to really like it. This one just didn't grab me. I didn't feel like I needed to read the first book right away or long for the next book. It's OK, but the book wasn't that thrilling nor truly surprising. Would I recommend it? Yes, because the writing is good and just because I didn't love the book doesn't it mean that it won't pull other readers in. If I get the chance to read the next book would I do it because I did enjoy the story and the partnership between Jude and Uriah. I want to thank Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! Detective Jude Fontaine is trying to get over her kidnapping and torture by throwing herself into her job as a homicide detective. Her current case, a series of gruesome murders where the victims have their throats cut and are posed afterward, is keeping her mind occupied. But it doesn't stop the nightmares. Her downstairs neighbor Elliot has a broom by his bed so that he can pound on his ceiling to wake her up. But he wants more from Jude. He says he's a student at the University of Minnesota majoring in photography, but he seems to have chosen Jude and her crime scenes as his only subject. He's keeping secrets are trying to get close to her. As the crimes escalate with the victims mirroring the Fibonacci series, Jude and her partner Uriah are working themselves to exhaustion. A health scare for Uriah makes Jude question what he means to her life and makes her wonder if she can have friends and relationships again. Thus far, her only real relationship is a sort of distant one with a feral cat she has named Roof Cat. This story is told from a few points of view including Elliot's and Jude's and a mysterious young woman who calls herself Clementine. It is a high-tension story with a fast pace and intriguing characters. I really liked the first book, even though it was intense and violent. This book, not so much. The protagonist seems to have lost some of her edge, and the skill she made tremendous use of in the first novel, being able to read body language with scary precision, is almost completely missing from this second book in the series. I don't expect i'll be reading a third book if one comes out. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it's a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide. At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims--until they're approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman's next move is not incalculable; in fact, it's all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising. But when the latest victim is found in Jude's apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that's going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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