sweettea_and_a_book 's review for:

What Remains by Wendy Walker

3.75

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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Chapter 1 - we’ve got action!

Is psychology police procedural a thing?

Elease is a high anxiety police officer who stops at a local store to buy towels. While there a gunman starts shooting. She makes a quick decision which sets in a chain of events. Hailed as a local hero, she can’t shake the guilt and emptiness as a result of her actions. Seeking a connection, she meets up with one of the customers at the door “that day”, which turns her into his newest fixation.

The cop becomes the victim?! Whew! Soo good! This is straight up police procedural, with a psychological look into a criminal AND officer’s mind post-trauma! This book was genius for my criminal justice loving mind. It was fresh with the police perspective/investigation coupled with a pretty clever stalker. So much suspense building! I loved seeing the puzzle come together.

Elease began to unnerve me with the quick, risky choice she made which ultimately affected the case and others around her. I found that to be incredibly selfish and dangerous. The ending and reasoning behind everything fell a little flat to me.

The audiobook was really good but there was a different story being told in parallel that threw me for a loop. It never did quite make sense to me.

𝐈𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟏𝟎 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤?