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Black Orchid Investigations #1
Killer Winter
Lieutenant Leah Samuels catches the first homicide case of the new year 2235, and a raging blizzard is obscuring the evidence. The Crime Scene Investigators, though, find a partial hand and the ME says it belongs to a very prominent and much beloved religious man. He also says there were as many as twenty other victims. With only that one piece of evidence, Leah resorts to good old fashioned detecting—and trusting her gut. The motive for the murders turns out to be more bizarre than she could have imagined. Just when she thought things could get no worse, she learns the woman she loves has betrayed her in devastating ways.
242 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2018
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February 4, 2018
2.5 Stars. A futuristic murder case, yes please! I was really excited about this premise; unfortunately this was pretty rough in places. I didn’t hate it, I never wanted to DNF, but there were too many problems to just ignore.
This book takes place more than 200 years in the future. Lieutenant Leah Samuels is a married lesbian living on an Earth very different than ours. The weather has gotten worse and worse, leaving a snowy cold winter that lasts most of the year. When she is called out to a murder field covered in the ground-up remains of multiple victims, it is up to Leah to solve a case that is almost unsolvable.
One of the biggest issues in this book was inconsistencies and details. If you are going to write a book 200 years in the future, that has aliens and the technology to travel between worlds, you have to remember to update the every day to day stuff too. I really think Bigelow should have just put this 40 years or so ahead. Than only having a little new tech and everything else the same would have made sense.
There was a few times that the inconsistencies were really noticed. In the beginning of the book Leah makes it out that she either has a flying car, or all the roads have multiple levels going up in the air and that level 3 is for police. I could not tell if the car was flying or if she was just on a normal road that is elevated 60 feet. Either way she really meant, this is never mentioned for the rest of the book and they just drive on the ground. With all the talk about the snow covering the roads and not being able to drive makes no sense if it is a flying car. It is just confusing and I hope she considers taking this out before this book is officially released. There were other inconsistencies like Leah asking a character how long that character had been sleeping with someone. The character says for the last two years. Two chapters later, the same question is asked and the character says she has not seen the person for the last three years. It’s a little hard to be sleeping with someone for the last two years if you have not seen them in the past three. Again, I hope these kinds of issues can be caught before this book is really released.
The other main issue is the mystery did not really unfold well. There was not much real detective work and the character would just know things out of the blue. A good mystery you want to follow along as the characters uncover clues that lead to suspects, not just be told, oh it’s him or her. I really wish someone like a Cari Hunter or a J.M. Redmann would take Bigelow under their wing and show her how to describe those little clues and mystery details. The actual premise Bigelow came up with is cool, and the way the book ends it could become a series. I just think she needs a little more help and guidance to turn this around.
I do want to mention for romance fans, this is not a romance. The main Leah is already married, and I’m not impressed with the coupling. It did not make sense for a partner of a detective, but I’ll leave it at that.
This story had the chance to be really cool and different. I applaud Bigelow for writing a futuristic book, but details, details. I have a lot of respect for anyone that writes a book, but I really hope Bigelow will work on her craft before she just pumps out another story. I’m getting tired of giving her such low ratings.
An ARC was given to me by BSB, for a honest review.
This book takes place more than 200 years in the future. Lieutenant Leah Samuels is a married lesbian living on an Earth very different than ours. The weather has gotten worse and worse, leaving a snowy cold winter that lasts most of the year. When she is called out to a murder field covered in the ground-up remains of multiple victims, it is up to Leah to solve a case that is almost unsolvable.
One of the biggest issues in this book was inconsistencies and details. If you are going to write a book 200 years in the future, that has aliens and the technology to travel between worlds, you have to remember to update the every day to day stuff too. I really think Bigelow should have just put this 40 years or so ahead. Than only having a little new tech and everything else the same would have made sense.
There was a few times that the inconsistencies were really noticed. In the beginning of the book Leah makes it out that she either has a flying car, or all the roads have multiple levels going up in the air and that level 3 is for police. I could not tell if the car was flying or if she was just on a normal road that is elevated 60 feet. Either way she really meant, this is never mentioned for the rest of the book and they just drive on the ground. With all the talk about the snow covering the roads and not being able to drive makes no sense if it is a flying car. It is just confusing and I hope she considers taking this out before this book is officially released. There were other inconsistencies like Leah asking a character how long that character had been sleeping with someone. The character says for the last two years. Two chapters later, the same question is asked and the character says she has not seen the person for the last three years. It’s a little hard to be sleeping with someone for the last two years if you have not seen them in the past three. Again, I hope these kinds of issues can be caught before this book is really released.
The other main issue is the mystery did not really unfold well. There was not much real detective work and the character would just know things out of the blue. A good mystery you want to follow along as the characters uncover clues that lead to suspects, not just be told, oh it’s him or her. I really wish someone like a Cari Hunter or a J.M. Redmann would take Bigelow under their wing and show her how to describe those little clues and mystery details. The actual premise Bigelow came up with is cool, and the way the book ends it could become a series. I just think she needs a little more help and guidance to turn this around.
I do want to mention for romance fans, this is not a romance. The main Leah is already married, and I’m not impressed with the coupling. It did not make sense for a partner of a detective, but I’ll leave it at that.
This story had the chance to be really cool and different. I applaud Bigelow for writing a futuristic book, but details, details. I have a lot of respect for anyone that writes a book, but I really hope Bigelow will work on her craft before she just pumps out another story. I’m getting tired of giving her such low ratings.
An ARC was given to me by BSB, for a honest review.
January 31, 2018
Book received from Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.
I chose to read this book because I really liked the cover. It reminded me of the wood-chipper scene in the movie Fargo. The blurb sounded interesting too. A sci-fi/futuristic murder mystery set in icy, snowy conditions with lesbians and aliens 200 years from now. Sounds like a good mix, right? There were definitely parts with merit and some interesting concepts but on the whole I struggled to enjoy it when my reading was consistently jarred with inconsistencies.
In this future, climate change has caused Winter to be a nine month long season with temperatures around minus 25 and lower with the constant threat of storms. Humans have emigrated to other planets, aliens have immigrated to Earth and xenophobia is still rife. Lieutenant Leah Samuels is called to crime scene in a park where she is faced with the gruesome sight of what looks like numerous bodies pulped and sprayed across the snow.
Later she and rookie cop Peony Fong (from the planet Zing) return to the precinct with Leah driving. An impression is given that vehicles lanes are stacked vertically and that they are flying “sixty feet off the ground” (you’d think America would have taken to the metric system in 200 years), however, for the rest of the book they seem to be firmly on the ground. There is a scene when they travel up a one-way and the oncoming vehicle refuses to move so they push it out of the way into a snow bank. Why didn’t they just fly over it?
I couldn’t work out if this future was hi-tech or low-tech. If there is interplanetary travel the technology must be fairly advanced but when they go out into the snow they’re bundled up with ordinary jackets, coats, hoodies and scarves. No nanotechnology spidey suit that shrinks or expands to fit complete with environment control? There is very little description of any new technology of the future besides the murder board which seems like a smartboard. Same old coffee machine, note pad and pen? People still have paper photographs in frames and warrants are hand-delivered on paper.
Leah rushes off to set up a secret task force to deal with the park murders because of some sense of paranoia but there is no indication of why she would be paranoid. A bishop seems to be one of the murder victims but there is nothing said about him that would require a need for treading lightly. In fact, he was respected and liked and if anything, the whole police force should have been on the case. Nobody says anything or does anything to Leah to cause her to want to work away from the police station yet off she goes with two fellow officers to a secure location provided for her by her secret, billionaire, alien wife.
I felt like I was on the periphery for most of the novel and I have no clear idea of what any of the characters looked like, not even the aliens. It was almost like it was assumed the reader would know what the world looked, what the people looked like and what type of person they were. In the beginning there was a nice interaction between Leah and Weston (bad cop) but it was short-lived and one of the few instances of clarity.
I think parts of the murder mystery could have been good if I didn’t have all these extraneous questions tapping at my brain. Some of them are still there lurking. Who opens the door barefoot and in a t-shirt when the temperature is minus 35 with a fast approaching blizzard and argues with the people standing outside? Would surveillance tapes still be called tapes? Why is fuck spelled phuc sometimes and fuck at other times? And who or what is Drude?
I chose to read this book because I really liked the cover. It reminded me of the wood-chipper scene in the movie Fargo. The blurb sounded interesting too. A sci-fi/futuristic murder mystery set in icy, snowy conditions with lesbians and aliens 200 years from now. Sounds like a good mix, right? There were definitely parts with merit and some interesting concepts but on the whole I struggled to enjoy it when my reading was consistently jarred with inconsistencies.
In this future, climate change has caused Winter to be a nine month long season with temperatures around minus 25 and lower with the constant threat of storms. Humans have emigrated to other planets, aliens have immigrated to Earth and xenophobia is still rife. Lieutenant Leah Samuels is called to crime scene in a park where she is faced with the gruesome sight of what looks like numerous bodies pulped and sprayed across the snow.
Later she and rookie cop Peony Fong (from the planet Zing) return to the precinct with Leah driving. An impression is given that vehicles lanes are stacked vertically and that they are flying “sixty feet off the ground” (you’d think America would have taken to the metric system in 200 years), however, for the rest of the book they seem to be firmly on the ground. There is a scene when they travel up a one-way and the oncoming vehicle refuses to move so they push it out of the way into a snow bank. Why didn’t they just fly over it?
I couldn’t work out if this future was hi-tech or low-tech. If there is interplanetary travel the technology must be fairly advanced but when they go out into the snow they’re bundled up with ordinary jackets, coats, hoodies and scarves. No nanotechnology spidey suit that shrinks or expands to fit complete with environment control? There is very little description of any new technology of the future besides the murder board which seems like a smartboard. Same old coffee machine, note pad and pen? People still have paper photographs in frames and warrants are hand-delivered on paper.
Leah rushes off to set up a secret task force to deal with the park murders because of some sense of paranoia but there is no indication of why she would be paranoid. A bishop seems to be one of the murder victims but there is nothing said about him that would require a need for treading lightly. In fact, he was respected and liked and if anything, the whole police force should have been on the case. Nobody says anything or does anything to Leah to cause her to want to work away from the police station yet off she goes with two fellow officers to a secure location provided for her by her secret, billionaire, alien wife.
I felt like I was on the periphery for most of the novel and I have no clear idea of what any of the characters looked like, not even the aliens. It was almost like it was assumed the reader would know what the world looked, what the people looked like and what type of person they were. In the beginning there was a nice interaction between Leah and Weston (bad cop) but it was short-lived and one of the few instances of clarity.
I think parts of the murder mystery could have been good if I didn’t have all these extraneous questions tapping at my brain. Some of them are still there lurking. Who opens the door barefoot and in a t-shirt when the temperature is minus 35 with a fast approaching blizzard and argues with the people standing outside? Would surveillance tapes still be called tapes? Why is fuck spelled phuc sometimes and fuck at other times? And who or what is Drude?
May 28, 2018
This book was a good mystery for me but the twist I liked was it was set in the future and the aliens. Things have changed quite a bit but this book was a page turner for me. I would be excited to read another book from this author. *This book was given to me for free at my request from Netgalley and I provided this voluntary review.*
April 4, 2018
200 years into the future for a murder mystery which wasn't really a mystery. It was all over the place Leah didn't know her wife to well. Her wife's brother ended up being a friend to her. There's a bombing a fellow co-worker looking to make your life of misery and another co-worker setting you up, Then there is the Organization that her wife was apart of.
April 19, 2018
I liked this book and honestly I forgot that it was published by Boldstrokes. It's a futuristic crime/mystery with the requisite aliens. Was it a great book? No, not even close but it had the potential to be epic. It actually reads like it's the authors 1st book but it appears to be a second. I will keep an eye out for another of her stories and I'd definitely keep an eye out if there is a sequel to this one.
This story wasn't great but it had potential to be really good. I liked the characters, I enjoyed the concept. I'd have liked to see more development of the crime solving and a bit more of the back story regarding the aliens. There was an explanation of why there were aliens but the fact that a couple of the characters were aliens didn't really add anything to the story. They could have just as easily been from another country. I also would have liked if the crime was fleshed out further. There were lots of implications of a conspiracy and dirty cops but things resolved a little too easily without enough meat and there were still lots of left over questions.
I know it sounds like a bunch of complaining but I really felt it was a pretty good start for a 1st book in a potential series. This one could have been improved with a few more pages.
This story wasn't great but it had potential to be really good. I liked the characters, I enjoyed the concept. I'd have liked to see more development of the crime solving and a bit more of the back story regarding the aliens. There was an explanation of why there were aliens but the fact that a couple of the characters were aliens didn't really add anything to the story. They could have just as easily been from another country. I also would have liked if the crime was fleshed out further. There were lots of implications of a conspiracy and dirty cops but things resolved a little too easily without enough meat and there were still lots of left over questions.
I know it sounds like a bunch of complaining but I really felt it was a pretty good start for a 1st book in a potential series. This one could have been improved with a few more pages.
June 4, 2019
This book was provided for free by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first book I've read by Kay Bigelow, and though I like the gritty police drama and the twists and turns of the grisly murder case, the futuristic setting had me scratching my head, and the overall bleakness of the story wasn't my cup of tea.
I like how fast this story goes. Some unidentified bits of flesh on a snowy field soon turn into a manhunt for someone brutally murdering young women for an unknown reason...and in turn, an entire police force being blown up by a terrorist. In the middle of everything is Leah Samuels, who thinks her wife might be involved in something super shady. There are aliens and crime bosses and witches. A lot happens, some of it cool, but honestly, this was a weird book that never grasped my full attention.
Also, as a winter-weather girl, the snow situations baffled me. I live in Minnesota, and when snow piled up and temps dipped to around -20 last winter, we all had to be in chaos mode. No leaving the house unless its an emergency. Bundled from head to toe, extra socks, heavy-duty boots. 50/50 chance the car starts or not. If the characters acted like that in the book, I'd get it. But they're going outside in -50 weather in six feet of snow with hardly more than a shrug! I mean, that shit can kill you in seconds, and all we get are a few scenes of throwing a coat on or warming up the car. It just didn't feel plausible at all.
In the end, it comes down to personal taste. I like complex characters and high drama in my lesfic, but I have a hard time with lesfic that is so perpetually dark. It's just an unpleasant situation with little hope in sight. The next book sounds intriguing, opening up new places and faces, but I'm not sure if I'll take the chance.
This is the first book I've read by Kay Bigelow, and though I like the gritty police drama and the twists and turns of the grisly murder case, the futuristic setting had me scratching my head, and the overall bleakness of the story wasn't my cup of tea.
I like how fast this story goes. Some unidentified bits of flesh on a snowy field soon turn into a manhunt for someone brutally murdering young women for an unknown reason...and in turn, an entire police force being blown up by a terrorist. In the middle of everything is Leah Samuels, who thinks her wife might be involved in something super shady. There are aliens and crime bosses and witches. A lot happens, some of it cool, but honestly, this was a weird book that never grasped my full attention.
Also, as a winter-weather girl, the snow situations baffled me. I live in Minnesota, and when snow piled up and temps dipped to around -20 last winter, we all had to be in chaos mode. No leaving the house unless its an emergency. Bundled from head to toe, extra socks, heavy-duty boots. 50/50 chance the car starts or not. If the characters acted like that in the book, I'd get it. But they're going outside in -50 weather in six feet of snow with hardly more than a shrug! I mean, that shit can kill you in seconds, and all we get are a few scenes of throwing a coat on or warming up the car. It just didn't feel plausible at all.
In the end, it comes down to personal taste. I like complex characters and high drama in my lesfic, but I have a hard time with lesfic that is so perpetually dark. It's just an unpleasant situation with little hope in sight. The next book sounds intriguing, opening up new places and faces, but I'm not sure if I'll take the chance.
April 3, 2018
This is a crime novel set in the future and the premise intrigued me - I like the Eve Dallas series. But although this had a good core and a decent plot, there were some inconsistencies and some areas of the narrative that didn't make sense. Disappointing that these weren't picked up. The lead character Leah is well described and her motivation seems sound but her relationship with her wife felt wrong somehow. That could be deliberate because of the alien/human thing or hiding their marriage from colleagues but I questioned why they were together at all...
The plot is good and I wanted to know what was going on and the conclusion answered my questions but the overall feel was disappointment that the book wasn't better, given the possibilities. I will read more by this author and hope she develops with support from Bold Stroke Books as there is definite promise here.
I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review.
The plot is good and I wanted to know what was going on and the conclusion answered my questions but the overall feel was disappointment that the book wasn't better, given the possibilities. I will read more by this author and hope she develops with support from Bold Stroke Books as there is definite promise here.
I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review.
April 14, 2018
Edge of my seat
I loved this book. I was on the edge of my seat wondering who did it. Normally half way through the book I can figure out who the villain is but not in this one. I loved the characters...and the storyline was so believable. I would definitely recommend this book.
I loved this book. I was on the edge of my seat wondering who did it. Normally half way through the book I can figure out who the villain is but not in this one. I loved the characters...and the storyline was so believable. I would definitely recommend this book.
December 27, 2018
A solid and fascinating murder mystery, but the story focused too much on the complications in the private life of lieutenant Leah Samuels, which where also tangled up with the case. A straighter approach with less personal side shows might have worked better. Also, I liked the secondary characters, Cots and Peony, much better than Leah - I wished I hadn't had to share her feelings and thoughts that close up and that often. As it was, the murder case became background music to Leah's personal troubles, where I wished it would have been the main focus. My greatest criticism is that the sci-fi angle was hinted at but never exploited in a satisfying way. There are aliens living on Earth and space travel is possible: so what? Other than mentioning that, the author never really makes use of it. Earth has become a freezing and uncomfortable snowball with snow storms raging almost all year round, but all we get from that is the repeated process of our characters having to bundle up in thick layers of clothing: so what? The story wouldn't have missed anything if aliens and snowstorms would have been left out of the equation. Only at the end the author hints at the possibility of the team moving to a different planet: now that might have potential.
However, the book was entertaining enough to keep me reading and I'm willing to take a second chance with the sequel.
(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)
However, the book was entertaining enough to keep me reading and I'm willing to take a second chance with the sequel.
(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)
August 12, 2018
"What the phuc happened here?"
Geez, I can't believe I finished this book. Is there a Rotten Tomatoes award for books rather than movies?
Okay, think of the countless innovations that have happened in the last 100, or even 50 years. This book supposedly is set in the year 2235 and there's hardly anything showing that it didn't happen recently. There is almost zero world building in the story. New America is in the middle of an ice age so there's page after page of weather reports. And there's one mention of flying cars in the whole book and even then transportation is not consistent.
The dialogue is stilted. A few of the characters are aliens but there's barely any detail on that.
Oh, and if you decide to read the book because the main character is a married lesbian, I'll bet you'll be disappointed there - no romance and a chaste relationship.
This is supposedly a police procedural but the plot is disjointed and not consistent.
Can you tell - I don't recommend this book - to anyone.
I received this book from Boldstroke Books through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
Geez, I can't believe I finished this book. Is there a Rotten Tomatoes award for books rather than movies?
Okay, think of the countless innovations that have happened in the last 100, or even 50 years. This book supposedly is set in the year 2235 and there's hardly anything showing that it didn't happen recently. There is almost zero world building in the story. New America is in the middle of an ice age so there's page after page of weather reports. And there's one mention of flying cars in the whole book and even then transportation is not consistent.
The dialogue is stilted. A few of the characters are aliens but there's barely any detail on that.
Oh, and if you decide to read the book because the main character is a married lesbian, I'll bet you'll be disappointed there - no romance and a chaste relationship.
This is supposedly a police procedural but the plot is disjointed and not consistent.
Can you tell - I don't recommend this book - to anyone.
I received this book from Boldstroke Books through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
April 4, 2018
Where to start???? This story read like a high school students first attempt at writing a novel in their literary class. The murders were not much of a mystery. I am assuming the splattered body parts was thrown in to give the story some pizzazz. (Pangs of "Fargo") The solving of the crime drags on and on and not very suspenseful. My main question throughout the book was why create this story in the year 2235. They still used keyboards, still warmed up their cars , still had offshore accounts? There were very few references to the future other than other planets and using terms such as "son of a drularian she-dog" REALLY?. And then there was the weather....ah yes the weather. How were they walking around in 50 below zero weather. And if it snowed as much as it was described in the book, they wouldn't be able to open the door to the apartment. I think the author has some writing talent but not a lot of futuristic imagination and should stick to stories set in the 21st century.
October 4, 2021
Just so you know I asked for this book because I absolutely loved the cover. No i am not shallow it just really caught my attention.
However the book itself kind of deflated me somewhat. I was disappointed.
I couldn't not finish it. Because I loved the cover and anyway if I'm gifted a book in my opinion you should read it. Yes, I struggled. Yes, I wanted to DNF. But, and it's a big but.. it's set 200 years into the future. Everything I dream about in a book. Oh and lets not forget the snow.
It had too many inconsistencies for my liking. I kept having to reread parts. This had high potential to be an awesome read but I just felt let down.
I will however keep my eye out for this author. Her writing style for me just needs perfecting. 2.5 stars
However the book itself kind of deflated me somewhat. I was disappointed.
I couldn't not finish it. Because I loved the cover and anyway if I'm gifted a book in my opinion you should read it. Yes, I struggled. Yes, I wanted to DNF. But, and it's a big but.. it's set 200 years into the future. Everything I dream about in a book. Oh and lets not forget the snow.
It had too many inconsistencies for my liking. I kept having to reread parts. This had high potential to be an awesome read but I just felt let down.
I will however keep my eye out for this author. Her writing style for me just needs perfecting. 2.5 stars
March 6, 2018
This is a Crime & Mystery / Speculative Fiction book.
I liked the main characters, I liked the premise of the book, I liked that it was set in winter – a very cold winter, I didn’t mind the fact that it was set in the future with various alien races and I really liked the book cover.
It’s an enjoyable read, mostly. Sadly there are annoying inconsistencies. Things that could, in my opinion, have easily been omitted, corrected or explained. In the main, to be fair, I was able to put aside most of them and they did not stop me from finishing the book. The plot of Leah trying to solve the murder of 20+ people is pretty good and a terrific idea which could have been even better.
Whilst this is not a romance novel part of the thread involves Leah and her wife, Quinn – a female alien, their relationship is perhaps an odd coupling as Quinn seems to ‘sail close to the wind’ regarding the criminal world and is involved with some shady characters, not least her Ex., and she causes Leah problems both with the investigation and on a personal level. However, it is because of Quinn that Leah is able to carry on the investigation when it would seem impossible to continue.
The ending of the book appears to allow for a sequel/series. If that happens, and I think there’s plenty to build on here, then please remember ‘the devils in the detail’. Despite needing some polish I enjoyed the book and hope that, should you decide to give it a go, you do to.
With thanks to Bold Strokes via NetGalley for this eARC in return for an honest opinion.
I liked the main characters, I liked the premise of the book, I liked that it was set in winter – a very cold winter, I didn’t mind the fact that it was set in the future with various alien races and I really liked the book cover.
It’s an enjoyable read, mostly. Sadly there are annoying inconsistencies. Things that could, in my opinion, have easily been omitted, corrected or explained. In the main, to be fair, I was able to put aside most of them and they did not stop me from finishing the book. The plot of Leah trying to solve the murder of 20+ people is pretty good and a terrific idea which could have been even better.
Whilst this is not a romance novel part of the thread involves Leah and her wife, Quinn – a female alien, their relationship is perhaps an odd coupling as Quinn seems to ‘sail close to the wind’ regarding the criminal world and is involved with some shady characters, not least her Ex., and she causes Leah problems both with the investigation and on a personal level. However, it is because of Quinn that Leah is able to carry on the investigation when it would seem impossible to continue.
The ending of the book appears to allow for a sequel/series. If that happens, and I think there’s plenty to build on here, then please remember ‘the devils in the detail’. Despite needing some polish I enjoyed the book and hope that, should you decide to give it a go, you do to.
With thanks to Bold Strokes via NetGalley for this eARC in return for an honest opinion.
April 18, 2018
This is not the first book I’ve read by this author and it won’t be my last. Bigelow sets this story in the future, 2235 to be exact, when you would think some things would have changed but human nature hasn’t. Leah Samuels first case in 2235 begins in a blizzard and even though finding any clues to what happened next to impossible they still believe at least 20 people had their lives taken. Why and how is now Leah’s job. Meanwhile on the home front Leah’s wife is leading a life that she knows nothing about. All in all a very good read. Looking forward to Bigelow’s next book.
February 26, 2018
I really wanted to like this since it is set in the future, but no such luck. I can't even get through it. There is nothing to keep my interest. Characters are flat. Plot is meh. I don't even care who did it enough to skip to the end of the book.
October 24, 2021
Had so much potential I tried to like it but has so many inconsistencies, the main character who is supposed to be a great detective contributed nothing to solve the crime. The plot wasn’t that interesting and poorly developed.
November 21, 2018
An interesting, slightly jittery story about a cop solving a murder a couple of hundred years from now.
December 12, 2024
Great writing. No typos or errors. Good details. Likable characters. Believable story line.
February 26, 2018
This story looked really good at first but took a turn for the worst really quickly... The main characters were likable but all the little things that were inconsistent like the flying car/ different street levels, the story was set like 200 years in the future but it felt like it was only like 20-40 years away... the main things were still the same, there were also questions asked by characters that were answered differently in different chapters... well after a while it just got really annoying...
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February 27, 2018#KillerWinter #NetGalley
This book looked very good and the cover pulled me in. Too bad the storyline didn't pull me in. I really hate to give a bad review, I could not get into the story. This is just my opinion, others may enjoy the story. The characters were likeable, there were just too many little inconsistencies.
This book looked very good and the cover pulled me in. Too bad the storyline didn't pull me in. I really hate to give a bad review, I could not get into the story. This is just my opinion, others may enjoy the story. The characters were likeable, there were just too many little inconsistencies.
March 5, 2018
I was excited to read this on a lot of levels. But I have to admit to being disappointed. This isn't listed as part of a series, but really should have been the third or 4th in a series. There is a lot of background we don't get for the futuristic world and relationships that are in place. The writing has promise, and Ill give the author a try in the future, but this book was a little rough.
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