This Holt Foundation series is darker than her Lacey James thriller series. I usually don’t want to read thrillers with a rapist/serial killer, but since the brilliant Chris Patchell wrote this one, I enthusiastically said yes, and I was rewarded with a gripping, emotionally powerful story. Ms. Patchell has such a vibrant writing style that immediately immerses me into the minds of her characters. The author brings a compassionate and nuanced fictional portrait of the grief, trauma, and struggle of a survivor. The heroine is admirable in her tenacity to keep going after tragedy and try to make the world a little better with her wits and hard work. Trigger Warning: although the sexual assault is not described, the knife attack and trauma could be disturbing for readers; mature readers only.
This 3.5-hour-long novella provides a complete and satisfying suspense/thriller that can be read as a standalone. Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Holt became a lawyer to fight for justice for rape victims, after she herself barely survived an attack by a stranger. When new evidence brings to light her attacker’s identity, she remembers all of her awful experiences and struggles with vengeance versus justice.
The pair of narrators were both excellent in every way. The female narrator performed most of the chapters, those from the heroine’s perspective. There were only a few chapters from the perspective of male characters, and the male narrator did a great job on them.
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