Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love Peter Swanson’s writing and in terms of writing this was just as good as the rest. However the plot felt a little slow and repetitive this time and felt like it was missing an extra twist. That said it could’ve been because it took me longer to read that I wasn’t as gripped!
Let's face it, it is really hard to live up to book one in this series ["The Kind Worth Killing"], so I didn't have the highest expectations. Overall, it's a good, interesting story.
In book #2, we follow former detective Kimball as he navigates his new life as a private detective. When an old student of his comes in with a case about a cheating husband, he accepts the job. He doesn't have much going on with his business yet. We get the wife's perspective along the way, too. Joan's story is a parallel in many ways to Lily. It had me thinking I think I've read this book before....
It was a close copy of book one tbh. It didn't bother me too much, but I missed Lily. [She does come in later in the book]. Where book #1 was fresh, exciting, and surprisingly plausible, this second offering felt contrived. It definitely had some great twists and was fun to read. I would recommend it to fans of book one. Just don't get your hopes up that it will have the same magic as The Kind Worth Killing.🤷♀️
In book #2, we follow former detective Kimball as he navigates his new life as a private detective. When an old student of his comes in with a case about a cheating husband, he accepts the job. He doesn't have much going on with his business yet. We get the wife's perspective along the way, too. Joan's story is a parallel in many ways to Lily. It had me thinking I think I've read this book before....
It was a close copy of book one tbh. It didn't bother me too much, but I missed Lily. [She does come in later in the book]. Where book #1 was fresh, exciting, and surprisingly plausible, this second offering felt contrived. It definitely had some great twists and was fun to read. I would recommend it to fans of book one. Just don't get your hopes up that it will have the same magic as The Kind Worth Killing.🤷♀️
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the second lily Kintner/Harry Kimball book.
Harry is hired by Joan investigate her cheating husband. She is a former student from the year he was a high school English teacher. He follows the husband and hornilly follows the mistress to the house they meet at and is outside when he hears gunshots. The husband shot the mistress then himself.
Except actually, in part 2 we learn it was actually Joan’s friend Richard who killed the other two and escaped out the back door. Richard and Joan killed his cousin by pushing him off a pier as teenagers then convinced another boy to shoot a girl at school. Kimball figured out Joan and Richard's past crimes so Richard puts a bomb in kimball’s office. Kimball is hospitalized and Richard dies.
Lily wants revenge so she uses kimball’s notes to piece it all together and hunt down and kill Joan in part 3.
Like the other book, this one relies on Kimball and other characters being in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time. He and Lily also piece together past events extremely quickly and on little evidence. But if that’s taken as a given in these books, then they’re fine. I rated this one lower than the last one because i enjoy lily’s chapters, but i find kimball boring.