Vendetta's Victim

Cassidy McCabe #3

by Alex Matthews

Third in the Cassidy McCabe mystery series, the therapist/sleuth voted "Best Continuing Character in a Mystery Series" in the Readers Choice Awards, Mystery Lovers Conference. Psychotherapist Cassidy McCabe has a houseful of kittens and her reporter partner, Zach Moran, living with her, and life is relatively tranquil. That is, until a series of women begin approaching her with letters from an unknown man named Cliff, who is recommending Cassidy as a therapist. Cliff has a vendetta against women and has launched a vicious crusade to seduce and victimize them. As Cass enlists Zach's aid to investigate, she finds that Cliff has begun to stalk her. With a stunning premise, right out of today's headlines, this book offers a chilling scenario.

Genres: Mystery

310 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Alex Matthews is a clinical social worker who enjoys writing psychological mysteries, but has not urge to live the life of the great Cassidy McCabe. Alex lives with her husband and private-practice partner in Illinois.

Reviews

[Elaine Nickolan · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars. This next installment of the Cassidy McCabe series was better than the first 2. Cassidy must find out who is attacking and infecting women with AIDS and why he has chosen her to refer too. With her mothers marriage upcoming, Cassidy is also drawn into those families dynamics, and somehow those overlap with the attacks . Yeah, the whole cat story is on-going but at least there is more mystery story than wild kingdom story. Zach and her relationship is moving forward and the ending, although put together the last 50 or so pages was believable. Let's see what #4 holds for this reader.

[Toria · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn't really bad but I didn't enjoy it as I hoped, probably because I started it in mid-series. I plan to read the first two as well and then maybe I will change my mind about it.