Knock Out and Roadside Crosses

In Knock Out our favorite FBI agents are back. Savich and Sherlock are right in the midst of things in this exciting new thriller.

A child with a gift for mental telepathy, a sheriff in the boondocks, and two bank-robbers on the run create two distinct cases in which Savich and Sherlock are involved. The author switches back and forth between the two cases which may seem confusing but in actuality works quite well. It may just be that she has used this method before and I am familiar with it.

Autumn is the child and she and her mother travel to visit an uncle after a family death and are thrown into a strange and unusual cult which wants Autumn (with her highly-skilled gift) to join them. Her mother has other ideas. The second case is about two bank robbers who were involved in a bank heist where Savitch happened to be at the time. They are on the run and the FBI is hot on their trail.

I have to admit I was not immediately entranced by the topic of this new entry but I stuck with it and read it to the end. Having finished it I can easily say it was not my favorite Coulter book, but it was good.


Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver

Kathryn Dance of the California Bureau of Investigation is the lead investigator in the apparent crime spree of a troubled teen who is being attacked on a popular blog because of his role in a fatal car accident.

During the investigation the teen vanishes and Dance becomes frustrated as the killings begin, prefaced by roadside crosses placed by the side of the road.

As if one investigation was not enough, Dance’s mother is arrested for the mercy killing of a patient in her care and Dance has to stay out of it so that the case is not compromised in any way.

In true Deaver fashion, this are mysteries fraught with twists and turns and the reader may find herself switching from one possible perpetrators to another and being surprised when the true murderers are revealed.

Not to be missed.

Lady Bookbug!