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Targeted
Sheriff Decker must determine why good people in his town are committing horrific acts. Little does he know the future of humankind is in the balance. Ironically, Decker moved to Olinda, a backwater in eastern Oregon, to seek serenity. Instead he finds a small town harboring a secret that makes no one safe from being targeted next.
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2020
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September 12, 2020
Suspenseful thriller
The first half of the book moves slowly with one bizarre incident kicking off the story. However slow, the description and suspense builds until the action starts happening in the second half, which moves much faster. The story is told from the perspective of three main characters – the sheriff, his wife, and his daughter. The tale includes an interesting cadre of characters in a small American town. Murder and mayhem abound leading up to the exciting climax. The story kept me guessing and although the ending was not a complete shock, it was not predictable. Not quite a full-fledged sci-fi thriller but leaning in that direction.
The first half of the book moves slowly with one bizarre incident kicking off the story. However slow, the description and suspense builds until the action starts happening in the second half, which moves much faster. The story is told from the perspective of three main characters – the sheriff, his wife, and his daughter. The tale includes an interesting cadre of characters in a small American town. Murder and mayhem abound leading up to the exciting climax. The story kept me guessing and although the ending was not a complete shock, it was not predictable. Not quite a full-fledged sci-fi thriller but leaning in that direction.
October 1, 2020
An ARC copy of this story came to me for an honest unbiased review.
I give this 4.75 stars! Truthfully, I wish more works of this caliber came my way.
LA Daane has a real, brisk way with prose. Striking hot, at times brutal but on point in delivering a horrific and textured crime mystery and drama. Just enough said and real!
Written from a few points of view, each main character from Sheriff Decker, his wife Sarah and daughter, Annie, are well developed as are the clues leading to the odd but gruesome crime scenes. Great plays to weave through the plot, offering suspects of the town’s people and playing them off each other. The mayor is a pain and only annoys the sheriff. While Sarah is concerned her fat, overbearing boss might have been part of the sick plot. Then daughter Annie is the monkey wrench in the scheme, oddly playing into the fiend’s hands, someone unexpected. Decker bites the bait and in hot pursuit to solve the crimes but find his daughter falls prey as well.
Interesting and unique twists to compel the reader to continue but allow them to wonder and do some sleuthing as well.
I won’t give out the end but in some ways it is satisfying and equally disturbing.
A modern twist of skewed sci-fi meets cozy town mystery, meets the best in cop drama. The small town is realistically revealed as well as how Decker’s relationships with its people and the crimes make it difficult to work through. There are some surprising people that arrive at odd moments and push us through the compelling plot.
Some good descriptions of Oregon back country and the oddments of folks that live there, of course, to themselves they are not unusual or bizarre!
I’ll look forward to more from this author. An interesting and entertaining, suspenseful book! Please, Sir, May I have some more?
I give this 4.75 stars! Truthfully, I wish more works of this caliber came my way.
LA Daane has a real, brisk way with prose. Striking hot, at times brutal but on point in delivering a horrific and textured crime mystery and drama. Just enough said and real!
Written from a few points of view, each main character from Sheriff Decker, his wife Sarah and daughter, Annie, are well developed as are the clues leading to the odd but gruesome crime scenes. Great plays to weave through the plot, offering suspects of the town’s people and playing them off each other. The mayor is a pain and only annoys the sheriff. While Sarah is concerned her fat, overbearing boss might have been part of the sick plot. Then daughter Annie is the monkey wrench in the scheme, oddly playing into the fiend’s hands, someone unexpected. Decker bites the bait and in hot pursuit to solve the crimes but find his daughter falls prey as well.
Interesting and unique twists to compel the reader to continue but allow them to wonder and do some sleuthing as well.
I won’t give out the end but in some ways it is satisfying and equally disturbing.
A modern twist of skewed sci-fi meets cozy town mystery, meets the best in cop drama. The small town is realistically revealed as well as how Decker’s relationships with its people and the crimes make it difficult to work through. There are some surprising people that arrive at odd moments and push us through the compelling plot.
Some good descriptions of Oregon back country and the oddments of folks that live there, of course, to themselves they are not unusual or bizarre!
I’ll look forward to more from this author. An interesting and entertaining, suspenseful book! Please, Sir, May I have some more?
August 6, 2020
Targeted - It's a Perfect Title for a near perfect book.
It'll be hard to maintain a minimalist approach ...
Targeted is an excellent example of the use of different voices, as it switches between the main characters' views of the action.
Usuallly, this construct, I find, is tedious but in this case it is far from.
The characters are extremely well developed and the plot has more twists than a country road. I kept trying to put it down but couldn't...uintil I finished the book.
Even more refreshing is that there was no surprise "to be continued" at the end. The book is not part of a series, even though that would almost have been welcome.
It'll be hard to maintain a minimalist approach ...
Targeted is an excellent example of the use of different voices, as it switches between the main characters' views of the action.
Usuallly, this construct, I find, is tedious but in this case it is far from.
The characters are extremely well developed and the plot has more twists than a country road. I kept trying to put it down but couldn't...uintil I finished the book.
Even more refreshing is that there was no surprise "to be continued" at the end. The book is not part of a series, even though that would almost have been welcome.
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