(5) = Best; (4) = Better; (3) = Good; (2) = Fair; (1) = OK
These abstracts serve as reminders to myself; they serve to "jog" my memory on what a book was all about. That's all. This is not a literary critique, not a social commentary, and certainly nothing profound to warrant further discussion.
(5) = means that I really enjoyed this book; (1) = means I finished reading it but wonder if my time could have been better spent elsewhere.
I find it interesting for male writers to project themselves into the lives and hearts of female characters in this book. I have no idea if women really think the way Lindsay Boxer was thinking and feeling as she goes about solving the murder mysteries that occurred.
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an internet millionaire is engulfed in flames, and Lindsay plunges into the house to search for survivors. She finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found – and a mysterious message at the scene leaves the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.
Then, a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends (all females) Claire Washburn (Medical Examiner), Jill Bernhardt, (Assistant D.A.), and Cindy Thomas (Chronicle Reporter) to help figure out who is commiting these murders – and why they are intent on killing someone every three days. Social relationships, sexual attraction, comments on male/female performances on a police force is reflected in the story. (3).
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