Jodé Susan Millman
Forfatter af The Midnight Call
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- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- CIBA Book Series Awards Finalist (The Queen City Crimes Series, Mystery/Suspense, 2023)
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- Værker
- 6
- Medlemmer
- 63
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- #268,028
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- 4.1
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- 24
- ISBN
- 10
Jessica "Jessie" Martin, a lawyer in the Hudson Valley, receives a midnight call from her friend and mentor, Terrence Butterfield, after he murders a teenager in his basement. Rushing to his side, she becomes entangled in his case in unexpected ways, having almost deadly repurcussions. Has Terrence always been a cold-blooded killer? Did he have some kind of mental break? It will take some legal finesse to get Terrence aquitted of this heinous crime.
Jessie is a relatively likeable character -- engaged, pregnant, smart, and loyal. However, she continuously makes bad choices, pushing her life to implode right in front of her. Kyle, her fiancee, seems to be a good guy, trying to do right by Jessie and their baby, but it backfires on him. Hal, the prosecuting attorney, is too obsessed with Jessie to see things clearly, and he also makes questionable choices. Jeremy Kaplan, Terrence's attorney, is a wiley guy, trying to get back on top in the legal world, doing everything he can to get his client off, even trying to sabotage someone else's livelihood. And Terrence himself...one minute he's a coherent, logical, well-spoken man, the next he's rambling and having physical outbursts. What's happened to him? Is he for real, or faking to get out of prison?
The writing for me left a lot to be desired. There were sentence fragments everywhere, which drove me crazy. I would have to re-read the sentence before it so that the two sentences flowed together like they should have. From the beginning, we knew who did it, but where is the "why"? I expected some kind of twist that never came, and the ending left something to be desired. The going was slow throughout, and I feel like it could have been shortened by at least 50 pages.
All in all, a decent debut novel from this author. There are two more in the series, and although I haven't read them, if you enjoy this one, then you'll probably enjoy the rest of them. Although I wasn't a huge fan of this book, there are definitely readers who will like it. There's family, legal thriller, suspense, relationships...and a trigger warning for pregnancy issues.… (mere)