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amichaelbraun's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
ramsfan1963's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Sad, dark, ugly story. Three year after John Blake solved his ex-girlfriend's murder, he's retired from being a PI and gone back to school. When one of his classmates commits suicide, John is convinced its murder. From there, his life spirals out of control, going darker and more bloody with each confrontation. The reveal at the end is truly sick and disgusting, but it made sense.
iguana_mama's review
5.0
Posted at Shelf Inflicted
I loved getting to know detective John Blake in [b:Little Girl Lost|201056|Little Girl Lost (Hard Case Crime #4)|Richard Aleas|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1390071421s/201056.jpg|194531]. In crime-ridden New York with lots of people leading double lives, John maintains his innocence and is deeply affected by what he uncovers in his quest for justice.
Three years later, John’ s life is changed. He has abandoned private investigative work and decides to complete his education, so he accepts a job as an administrative assistant for the university’s writing program.
Once again, John becomes involved with a troubled and hurt young woman and once again he sets out to determine the cause of her death, this time an apparent suicide. John, however, believes foul play was involved and once he digs deeper, he learns of Dorrie’s job as a sex worker and uncovers some hard and ugly truths, about others and himself.
As my friends Dan and Kemper stated, this is a mind-blowing and powerful novel with strong, well-developed characters. It gripped me right from the start, and left me breathless until its grim and devastating conclusion.
I loved getting to know detective John Blake in [b:Little Girl Lost|201056|Little Girl Lost (Hard Case Crime #4)|Richard Aleas|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1390071421s/201056.jpg|194531]. In crime-ridden New York with lots of people leading double lives, John maintains his innocence and is deeply affected by what he uncovers in his quest for justice.
Three years later, John’ s life is changed. He has abandoned private investigative work and decides to complete his education, so he accepts a job as an administrative assistant for the university’s writing program.
Once again, John becomes involved with a troubled and hurt young woman and once again he sets out to determine the cause of her death, this time an apparent suicide. John, however, believes foul play was involved and once he digs deeper, he learns of Dorrie’s job as a sex worker and uncovers some hard and ugly truths, about others and himself.
As my friends Dan and Kemper stated, this is a mind-blowing and powerful novel with strong, well-developed characters. It gripped me right from the start, and left me breathless until its grim and devastating conclusion.
gmh711's review
4.0
A quick mystery set in the dark alleys & nights of New York City. A fast-paced story with plenty of action and surprise, especially the ending.
adiamond's review
3.0
This book was strong at the beginning, weak in the middle, and very strong at the end. I hate to say this, but John Blake's tendencies to jump to conclusions based on weak evidence and little reasoning, combined with the weakly drawn "bad guys" Ardo and Miklos, made a good chunk of the book read like an R-rated Scooby Doo episode. The ending though, has the heft of Greek tragedy, and makes up for the weakness in the middle.
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