Meter Destiny

Jack Meter Case Files

by M.D. Benoit

Destiny. Friendship. Family. Jack Meter hasn’t spent a lot of time on these ideas and has avoided them completely since Annie’s violent death three years before. But the claim of a strange group, claiming to be the Fates from mythology, that it is still controlling life on Earth, and their allegation that one of them was kidnapped, force him to review where these concepts fit in his life.

As Jack Meter unravels the kidnapping mystery by wading through a series of riddles and lies, and as he realizes his new clients are using him and his friends in a game of their own, he finally understands he must accept his own destiny. But will that understanding come in time to save his friends’ lives and stop a sociopathic alien from destroying everything Jack knows and believes in?

Genres: Science Fiction

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First published August 15, 2008

About the author

M. D. has been writing for over ten years. Metered Space, from the noir SF Mystery series The Jack Meter Case Files, was her first published novel. The next one in the series, Meter Made, came out in November 2005. Another Jack Meter Case File, Meter Destiny, is scheduled to come out in 2007-08, from Zumaya Otherworlds. Her first SF Thriller, Synergy, was released in March 2007 .

In 2000, M. D. edited a children's anthology, "The Friendship Anthology", published by
the Nepean Public Library, and was the editor of a Canadian Anthology, Looking In... Portraits of the Canadian Soul, a collection of stories, essays and poetry, accompanied by pictures taken by a series of Canadian photographers from across the country. She has also been involved in numerous additional editing projects such as Now we're cooking! 43 Authors in the Kitchen.

M. D. also writes reviews of SF novels for The Eternal Night, an online SF Review site from the UK.

M. D. Benoit discovered science fiction and mystery through her father's bedtime stories, which were always full of gadgets, dark doorways, and disappearing people. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and her cat (who is really an alien in disguise). She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she lived for eight years before moving to Ottawa, Ontario.

She is currently hard at work on her sixth manuscript, Entropy and a fourth Jack Meter Case File, Meter Parents.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Metered Space started the series off, and was a strong entry. Meter Made followed that, and was a weaker entry. We end the trilogy with Meter Destiny, which was an even weaker entry.

It would have been easy to stop after the first or second book, without missing anything (no cliff hangers, although the last paragraph of Meter Made was confusing and did not setup this book, that I remember).

Meter Destiny started okay, but then seemed to meander a bit. I was not always sure it was taking me someplace. There were many places that were good, but seems the further I got into the book, the less focus there was or reasoning for what was happening.

Having said that, the last page or so did a nice job of tying up the relationships and "emotional" impetus of the books. Although, I do want to know more about Fred . . .

[Zumaya Publications · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jack's back and the Fates have got him. Or so they claim. One of their number is missing and presumed kidnapped, and they insist Jack Meter is the only PI qualified to find her. But--no surprise--nothing is quite what it seems, and when Jack's friends start disappearing, held for ransom and threatened with death unless he can unravel a riddle before his time runs out, it looks as if he's going to have to save the world again. It's getting to be a habit.

M.D. Benoit continues her exciting series of noir-PI science fiction tales with the latest installment, and it's a perfect addition.