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Dead Cold Reviewed By Jennifer Andrew of Bookpleasures.com
- By Jennifer Andrew
- Published March 3, 2014
- Crime & Mystery
Jennifer Andrew
Reviewer Jennifer Andrew is Freelance Writer and Reviewer. Jennifer is an avid reader who loves to read every type of book, giving all of the fiction and non-fiction books a chance. Her favorite categories are fantasy, mystery drama, romance mystery, science fiction, philosophy, psychology, new age and selective self-help books. She enjoys promoting a good book when she reads one and hopes everyone feels the same joy that she did in reading it.
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Author: Ed Gorman
ISBN: 9781494894726
Publisher:
Genius Book Publishing
Dead
Cold is book one in the Robert Payne mystery series and it is an
exciting mystery in a first of many. Robert Payne is an FBI
criminal profiler who is hired to find out who killed the daughter of
Nora Conners and he is paid handsomely for the job. When he
temporarily moves to the small town in Iowa, he starts to find out
that there is a lot of mystery and secrets hidden in the town to
which he may have put his life in danger.
The opening of the
book grabs you right away and introduces you to the insight of one of
the characters. You know this is going to be an exciting story
from the start when it propels you into the head of a psychotic.
Conflict is strewn throughout the story as well. Conflicts
within the characters and the situations that occur in the town. The
reader is at the edge of his or her seat when something new and
terrifying pops up while Robert is doing his investigation. You
do not drown in the conflict either but want to revel in it, to
become more involved in it and you want to see what explodes on the
page in the end.
The plot is believable and conceivable. A
desperate woman wanting to find out who killed her daughter is very
plausible. It is a story that any reader can fall into
understanding the premise. The author gives you so much more
than that, however, when the story erupts in directions you are not
ready to go until Ed Gorman guides you through it. With every
answer that arises, there is a new question you must ask yourself.
Subplots develop which entangle itself like a web – of lies,
deceit and drama.
The setting is in a small town, closed knit
community with a sheriff who is battling her own conflict while
fitting in with the townsfolk. Secrets are kept tight lipped
and some people are ready to kill to keep things silent.
The
characters jump right off the page. Mannerisms and attitudes
are true to life and the author makes you hate and love some of those
characters. His descriptions fill your senses while you get
absorbed in his every word. He uses them to show, not tell the
story which makes Dead Cold brilliant in its execution. The
dialogue is intelligent and depict the personalities precisely. They
give off the small town feel and puts you in line with the story and
the plot.
The book is told in the point of view of Robert
Payne and for those moments that it has to switch, it does so in a
smooth transition. This murder mystery is a welcome addition to
the genre and an amazing story. Book one of the series is a
great start to what I predict will be a loved series, deserving of a
chance to be read as you will not be disappointed.
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