I haven't read anything by Stella Sands, but I will look for more of her work. So many true crime books are a listing of facts in a dry almost textbook manner, but Sands turns the facts into an interesting tale. Although I knew that the women she previews are going to die in the upcoming pages, it doesn't take away from the "oh no" factor. I kept hoping that one of them would get away; would turn up some place, safe.
The one word of warning I would add is that Rodney Alcala was a sadistic murderer and Sands doesn't hold back in the graphic descriptions of how his victims were tortured or found. It might be a bit upsetting to some.
I found the book hard to put down but I had to because life/work got in the way, but I highly recommend this book.
A Renaissance Woman's quest to live a clean, green, intellectually stimulating life. Starting over and doing it right. Plus - the snippets of life that make me so totally unique
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Hotwire A Maggie O'Dell mystery by Alex Kava
This book was so frightening that I had to stop reading it and wait until my husband came home to read more. This book began in a truly frightening manner. Cattle mutilations, drugged out teenagers being killed in a remote area of Nebraska...
Agent Maggie O'Dell was on her game in this book. She had to overcome resistance from the local law enforcement, her boss back at Quantico and a worried Col Platt, who ended up having his own adventure.
This book was hard to put down, once I wasn't scared. A few times, I thought I had it figured out, but then a new twist sent me in another directions. This is the type of mystery I love, just enough clues to let me think I know what's going to happen and then a quick change to throw me off.
I felt the ending might have been a bit rushed. O'Dell throws herself off a cliff to escape death, but we're never told how bad her injuries are or even what they were. I wanted the ending to be a bit more discriptive. But I'm not complaining except for the fact that I now have to wait for the next Maggie O'Dell novel to be published.
Agent Maggie O'Dell was on her game in this book. She had to overcome resistance from the local law enforcement, her boss back at Quantico and a worried Col Platt, who ended up having his own adventure.
This book was hard to put down, once I wasn't scared. A few times, I thought I had it figured out, but then a new twist sent me in another directions. This is the type of mystery I love, just enough clues to let me think I know what's going to happen and then a quick change to throw me off.
I felt the ending might have been a bit rushed. O'Dell throws herself off a cliff to escape death, but we're never told how bad her injuries are or even what they were. I wanted the ending to be a bit more discriptive. But I'm not complaining except for the fact that I now have to wait for the next Maggie O'Dell novel to be published.
impaled by a potato chip
It's been awhile since I've had a real mishap. Over the last several months, I've developed tennis elbow, a pinched nerve in my neck, had to have bladder surgery because it had prolapsed and now I'm looking at having my thyroid operated on. And let's not talk about the dental work that is happening. I got insurance and my body fell apart - literally. None of those things are really funny and so don't qualify as a mishap, but today I had a bona fide mishap.
The cats decided it was time for me to get up. They sat on my chest, they sat on my head and when I covered my head with the pillow, they tried to suffocate me so I crawled out of bed and made my way to the kitchen. As I was shuffling around, trying to find breakfast for me while not tripping over the furry ones, I stepped down on something sharp. It embeded itself in the bottom of my foot. The soft skin of the arch where no summer callous had formed. The tender area right in front of my heel. It felt like I had stepped on glass. The pain was swift. I hobbled over to a chair wincing with each step.
Before I turned my foot up to look at it, I ran my hand over it, hoping to remove the offending material but it felt like I had a sliver in my foot, but I was puzzled at the stinging. When I finally bent to look at the sole of my foot, I found a broken potato chip piercing my foot. A potato chip! The salt from the offending material caused the stinging sensation. My doctor told me, chips were bad for my health, but I don't think he meant in this way.
The cats decided it was time for me to get up. They sat on my chest, they sat on my head and when I covered my head with the pillow, they tried to suffocate me so I crawled out of bed and made my way to the kitchen. As I was shuffling around, trying to find breakfast for me while not tripping over the furry ones, I stepped down on something sharp. It embeded itself in the bottom of my foot. The soft skin of the arch where no summer callous had formed. The tender area right in front of my heel. It felt like I had stepped on glass. The pain was swift. I hobbled over to a chair wincing with each step.
Before I turned my foot up to look at it, I ran my hand over it, hoping to remove the offending material but it felt like I had a sliver in my foot, but I was puzzled at the stinging. When I finally bent to look at the sole of my foot, I found a broken potato chip piercing my foot. A potato chip! The salt from the offending material caused the stinging sensation. My doctor told me, chips were bad for my health, but I don't think he meant in this way.
Damaged A Maggie O'Dell mystery by Alex Kava
Maggie O'Dell doesn't exactly get along with her new boss and he doesn't exactly like her or so it seems so when she is needed in Florida where body parts are found floating in the Gulf Coast - she's sent - no worries about the Cat 5 hurricane heading her way. Meanwhile her friend Col Benjamin Platt also ends up in Florida to assist when the doctors at a military hospital are baffled by a slew of unexplainable sick soldiers - many who succomb to their illnesses. Of course, the two mysteries intertwine and bisect each other.
I like that Platt has become a character in the novels, but has remained on the periphery. I'm not sure I want Maggie to become involved. I think a romantic entanglement will take away from the mysteries and the mysteries are why I read these novels.
This novel was ok, but I just couldn't seem to get involved with the characters like I usually do, maybe it was my fault, maybe it was the author's style. It's still a good read.
I like that Platt has become a character in the novels, but has remained on the periphery. I'm not sure I want Maggie to become involved. I think a romantic entanglement will take away from the mysteries and the mysteries are why I read these novels.
This novel was ok, but I just couldn't seem to get involved with the characters like I usually do, maybe it was my fault, maybe it was the author's style. It's still a good read.
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