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2018, Thomas & Mercer
240 pgs.
Adult SciFi Mystery - Police Procedural
Finished 1-12-18
Goodreads rating: 3.85 - 1101 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting: Detroit in the future
First line/s: "Detroit homicide detective John Barnes sat in an unmarked sedan, squeezing a fifth of bourbon by the neck."
My comments: Awesome cover. Couldn't put it down. It's dark and gruesome and fascinating. The protagonist, John Barnes, doesn't care about his own existence because of the guild he feels about his brother's death , many years before. So he puts himself through all sorts of excruciating physical and mental pain - no, anguish - in his job as a police officer in this futuristic US. This is the second SYfyI have read in the last week and I've never really been into sci-fi. This one was good. I loved and hated the way it was all wrapped up...
GoodReads synopsis: Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it all—literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims’ experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives—the sights, the sounds, the scents, the pain—is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves.
Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren’t his. Enough of the horror. Enough of the voices inside his head that were never meant to take root…until a masked serial killer known as Calavera strikes a little too close to home.
Now, with Calavera on the loose, Barnes is ready to reconnect, risking his life—and his sanity. Because in the mind of this serial killer, there is one secret even Barnes has yet to see…
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