The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton
I was fortunate enough to get an advance reading copy of The Seventh Victim when I attended the super, fabulous Florida Writers Association Conference last month in Lake Mary, Florida. Mary Burton will be the association's guest at next years conference and will conduct a workshop. I can't say enough good things about the Florida Writers Association and the wonderful things they do.
I don't read alot of romantic suspense. Mainly because crime and murders don't really float my boat. And I really hate to say this because I don't want any of you to think I'm being arrogant, but I can usually figure out who did it long before the author chooses to reveal it.
James Beck and Lara Church were strong, believable characters guiding the story through many twists and turns. The hunt for the Seattle Strangler who was responsible for a string of murders until Lara. She escaped his clutches but with no memory of the event to help police solve the homicides. After the attack, she wandered around the country until landing in Austin, Texas when her grandmother dies. The strangler has landed there too.
The Seventh Victim is a well written and tension filled novel. What left me anxious to move on was that I knew how it would end before I even go to the halfway point. And the author left the romance until nearly the end of the book in what I felt was a very unnatural point for the characters. I didn't see sexual tension building between the two leading up to that point.
If you enjoy reading Mary Burton and romantic suspense novels, you will love The Seventh Victim. I enjoyed reading it but it left me unfulfilled. It just wasn't for me.
I was fortunate enough to get an advance reading copy of The Seventh Victim when I attended the super, fabulous Florida Writers Association Conference last month in Lake Mary, Florida. Mary Burton will be the association's guest at next years conference and will conduct a workshop. I can't say enough good things about the Florida Writers Association and the wonderful things they do.
I don't read alot of romantic suspense. Mainly because crime and murders don't really float my boat. And I really hate to say this because I don't want any of you to think I'm being arrogant, but I can usually figure out who did it long before the author chooses to reveal it.
James Beck and Lara Church were strong, believable characters guiding the story through many twists and turns. The hunt for the Seattle Strangler who was responsible for a string of murders until Lara. She escaped his clutches but with no memory of the event to help police solve the homicides. After the attack, she wandered around the country until landing in Austin, Texas when her grandmother dies. The strangler has landed there too.
The Seventh Victim is a well written and tension filled novel. What left me anxious to move on was that I knew how it would end before I even go to the halfway point. And the author left the romance until nearly the end of the book in what I felt was a very unnatural point for the characters. I didn't see sexual tension building between the two leading up to that point.
If you enjoy reading Mary Burton and romantic suspense novels, you will love The Seventh Victim. I enjoyed reading it but it left me unfulfilled. It just wasn't for me.
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