read on my iPhone
2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
308 pgs.
Adult Mystery/FBI
Finished 4-6-17
Goodreads rating: 4.21 - 382 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Late 1980s California
First line/s: "The Good Samaritan was famished...practically starving. His hunger had been building for weeks, fueled by an insatiable desire, which could only be fulfilled by one thing...the kill."
My comments: Something was just a little bit of with this book, but I guess I'm going to have to mull a bit to come up with what it might be. I think it had to do with the characters. The mystery was pretty decent, the setting - California from LA to San Francisco and in between - is a bit known to me and it worked.
I used to tell my students when they were learning to write to "show me, don't tell me." Well, I feel like the characters in Mourning Gloria were told about, not shown. Either that or the parts about them that were showing didn't totally agree with what the author was telling. Or something. Can't quite put my finger on it. Definitely something to do with characterization. As usual, I hate to say anything negative about an author's hard work, but I'll add more if I figure it out.
Goodreads synopsis: From The Author Of The Alex Hollick Series Comes A Dark Heart-Pounding Thriller With Brilliant Plotting, Continuous Suspense and a Jaw Dropping Finale!
When a murder suspect escapes indictment on a technicality, Agent Leah Hudson is forced to shift her focus to a new task, a cold case. Five years after Gloria Stone disappears, Hudson must piece together the final days of her life, but Gloria was no ordinary girl. Shortly after surviving a brutal gang rape on her twenty-first birthday, the affluent wine heiress vanished, her car abandoned in a supermarket parking lot.
With the help of her onetime mentor, Hudson retraces the steps of an old investigation, determined to succeed where all others have failed. Making her way through a slew of once discounted suspects, she edges closer to a horrifying truth - Gloria wasn’t alone…there are other victims and a misogynistic serial killer continues to lurk in the shadows of the Central Valley, threatening the lives of young women who fit his sick and twisted M.O.
Mourning Gloria brings together the elements of a thriller and a murder-mystery into one bone-chilling tale that examines the darkest depths of human nature.
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