Sabotage. Arson. Attempted murder. Dealing with terrible crimes is Aroostine Higgins’s job as an assistant US attorney in the Department of Justice’s elite Criminal Division. Except this time, she’s the victim—and the perpetrator is a faceless mastermind who’s derailing her life. He makes her latest court case vanish, he sets her home ablaze, and he nearly kills her when she undergoes surgery, all from behind the terrifying veil of anonymity.
Aided by a brilliant computer programmer, this mysterious and lethal man can access every detail of the attorney’s life. There’s no havoc he can’t wreak with a few dangerous keystrokes—and nothing he won’t do to achieve his goals. When the person she loves most is abducted, Roo must risk her career—and her life—to save him.
All around good reading. I received a free copy of this book from Ebook Discovery. I voluntarily chose to review. This is my honest review.
For me, this book is not a “keeper.” If not many readers enjoyed this author, there wouldn’t be a series. So give it a try. But for me, the story is too improbable, and the writing and storytelling not artful enough for me to consider reading another from the series. I like a crime novel to be cerebral rather than visceral, but this is neither. The characters aren’t gritty enough. It is a good enough story that I finished it, but it wasn’t thrilling and the writing was unexceptional. There was a deus ex machina at the end. I would…
She’s no Sasha, but Aroostine is pretty good too! I’ve enjoyed the Sasha McCandless books that Melissa Miller writes, so I figured I’d check this one out. It’s a spin-off that follows a new character (Aroostine Higgins) who was previously introduced in one of the Sasha books (#4, I think).