What do you think?
Rate this book
Roulette
Husband and wife police detectives, both married more to the badge than each other, have inevitable conflict within their marriage and their careers are put to the test when a serial killer invades their quiet and peaceful community.
Detective Rebecca Storme, the only woman in the detective bureau, and sole member of the Sex Crimes Unit, finds that the killer will not only challenge her career, her marriage, but her very life.
Veteran Detective Sergeant Peter Storme, already caught up in the infighting of the police department and city management, is drawn deeper into his career battles and challenges as the killer makes his appearance in his town.
What is ahead for the police department, and especially for two of its detectives, is many sleepless nights as the killer increases his maniacal assault on the innocent women and children of San Remo.
Those dedicated to preserving peace are pushed to their limits. The story is fast moving, often riveting, and often disturbing as the cops are repeatedly challenged by a psychopathic killer who has them all in his grip.
Roulette was an EPPIE 2001 Award Finalist, Best Thriller Novel Category, given for excellence in Electronic Publishing.
Detective Rebecca Storme, the only woman in the detective bureau, and sole member of the Sex Crimes Unit, finds that the killer will not only challenge her career, her marriage, but her very life.
Veteran Detective Sergeant Peter Storme, already caught up in the infighting of the police department and city management, is drawn deeper into his career battles and challenges as the killer makes his appearance in his town.
What is ahead for the police department, and especially for two of its detectives, is many sleepless nights as the killer increases his maniacal assault on the innocent women and children of San Remo.
Those dedicated to preserving peace are pushed to their limits. The story is fast moving, often riveting, and often disturbing as the cops are repeatedly challenged by a psychopathic killer who has them all in his grip.
Roulette was an EPPIE 2001 Award Finalist, Best Thriller Novel Category, given for excellence in Electronic Publishing.
- GenresMysteryProcedural
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 31, 2002
15 people are currently reading
142 people want to read
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,520 books190 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 11 of 11 reviews
April 30, 2013
I was not at all impressed with this book. I have to agree with one of the other reviews that it read like a police report, not a crime thriller. The ending was anticlimactic and left the issues with the main character and her husband quite unresolved. The book had many many grammatical errors almost to the point of wondering whether it had been edited at all. Whether that was due to kindle formatting is unknown. The only good thing I can say about this book was that it was free through Amazon.
September 24, 2015
I do feel like there was some potential here, even though it was evident 1/4 of the way through who was responsible for the murders.
Two of the primary characters were extremely annoying with their seemingly throwaway marriage. Well, it was treated that way by one of them and sometimes both. Constant talk (inner dialogue and flirting) about cheating... just kind of added a sad element rather than making the story more involved.
Maybe if there was no potential cheating element and just focused on the couple working on their marriage and the reason they were having issues. (Not sure if it's just me, but if your eyes and your mind start straying that much- you clearly are not in love with your spouse and there isn't much there without love and loyalty.) Or- leave the couple element out all together.
Overall, definite potential but unnecessary personal drama got in the way of what I felt was the 'real' story. I'd rate it more of a 2.5 story-wise, but the narration is decent.
I was provided with a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.
Two of the primary characters were extremely annoying with their seemingly throwaway marriage. Well, it was treated that way by one of them and sometimes both. Constant talk (inner dialogue and flirting) about cheating... just kind of added a sad element rather than making the story more involved.
Maybe if there was no potential cheating element and just focused on the couple working on their marriage and the reason they were having issues. (Not sure if it's just me, but if your eyes and your mind start straying that much- you clearly are not in love with your spouse and there isn't much there without love and loyalty.) Or- leave the couple element out all together.
Overall, definite potential but unnecessary personal drama got in the way of what I felt was the 'real' story. I'd rate it more of a 2.5 story-wise, but the narration is decent.
I was provided with a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.
September 3, 2012
This was a free Kindle book and the story line was fairly good. There is a rapist loose in the small town and he has begun to kill his victims. The police are trying to find the perpetrator but he seems to be right where they aren't looking. The two main characters are a married policewoman and her husband, also a policeman. The fact that they are married and work together make problems arise all around them, personally and professionally. The book was an easy read but there were a lot of editing and grammatical errors which detract from my reading enjoyment. The identity of the rapist was also very obvious from early on in the story and it was very aggravating when the police couldn't seem to see what was going on around them. The other distraction in the story was the unnecessary friction between the married police officers. A little goes a long way.
April 30, 2013
Packed this in 49% of the way through. It was packed full of careless mistakes I did try to overlook as the story started out well but they wore me down in the end. I'd guessed whodunnit by then too.
Ensure was written as insure and it's a shock how many authors don't know the difference between the two, the Sunrise Rapist was in capitals one minute then not, misuse of apostrophes was rife, missing speechmarks, intern written as interne, there was spaces added to words for no reason such as s o and no where. Twice the word bear was written as bare, scary as scarey.....by then I'd had a gutful of it.
The relationship between the husband and wife police people seemed a little daft and they both behaved very immaturely, I thought, and just managed to annoy me.
Ensure was written as insure and it's a shock how many authors don't know the difference between the two, the Sunrise Rapist was in capitals one minute then not, misuse of apostrophes was rife, missing speechmarks, intern written as interne, there was spaces added to words for no reason such as s o and no where. Twice the word bear was written as bare, scary as scarey.....by then I'd had a gutful of it.
The relationship between the husband and wife police people seemed a little daft and they both behaved very immaturely, I thought, and just managed to annoy me.
January 23, 2016
This is a very interesting thriller. It's written in the style of true crime. In the beginning, one might actually believe s/he is reading a true story.
As the story progresses, however, the coincidences and predictability reveal that it's actually fiction. Character development is fairly well done, but
I was never really able to relate to any of the characters. . Johnny Peppers's performance is passable, but I did catch a few mispronunciations and stumbles
in his delivery. His voiceing is suited for this true crime style of audiobook.
NOTE: I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for this unbiased review.
As the story progresses, however, the coincidences and predictability reveal that it's actually fiction. Character development is fairly well done, but
I was never really able to relate to any of the characters. . Johnny Peppers's performance is passable, but I did catch a few mispronunciations and stumbles
in his delivery. His voiceing is suited for this true crime style of audiobook.
NOTE: I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for this unbiased review.
September 11, 2012
I see that this author has written several non-fiction books, and I suspect that he is much more successful with those. This fictional story read more like a police report. There was some attempt at a personal storyline between the 2 married cops, but I didn't really care how it worked out because they were both inconsistent and made me uncomfortable. Also, the brutal description of the crimes was pretty far out of my comfort zone. Not my usual genre, and now I remember why.
October 24, 2015
** I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review **
It was an ok listen, the narrator is pretty good and he helped me get through it...all though it could have been a super exciting mystery there was a lot of conflict with the main characters that took away from the story...and it kind of diminished this books potential...the who done it factor did keep me guessing though!
Thank You Audiobookblast(dot)com
It was an ok listen, the narrator is pretty good and he helped me get through it...all though it could have been a super exciting mystery there was a lot of conflict with the main characters that took away from the story...and it kind of diminished this books potential...the who done it factor did keep me guessing though!
Thank You Audiobookblast(dot)com
June 26, 2013
Good mystery story. Had me stumped until almost the ending. Liked the story line with two cops being married to each other. DID not like how Rebecca could not make up her mind about her feelings for her husband. Did not get in the way of her job, however. Good read....
November 12, 2014
The overall story line was good. I did keep you guessing. I did not want to put it down somethimes. Other times the book was confusing as it jumped from character to character. I wanted a bit more to each main character. Plus the ending was a little jumpy also.
June 21, 2012
A really quick, fast page flipping read! I picked this story because it was an award winning one and it justly deserved it! Will look for more by these authors! Well written and entertaining!
April 20, 2013
True crime, my secret addiction.
Displaying 1 - 11 of 11 reviews