I just finished a great thriller: Run the Risk by Scott Frost. It was just fine for the first two pages, captured my attention on page 3 and after page 4 I could not put it down. Its pace is fast, and it kept on accelerating.
Short Summary:
‘Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Delillo works a case that chills her from the start: one with too much ambiguity and far too many surprises. None of the evidence-and yet all of it-seems relevant. A small-time shopkeeper is shot to death. Then a rare, untraceable explosive ignites in a bungalow, hurling the front door across the yard. Finally, a teenaged girl goes missing, her car window smashed, her keys still in the ignition. Even before they tell her, Detective Delillo knows that this girl is her daughter.
Delillo tracks her quarry on a trail of escalating terror toward a fiery showdown that will test her wisdom, her will, and her every skill.’
As a mystery, the plot has twists and turns to challenge the best minds to sort out at every particular moment what has already happened and what is about to happen. Mysteries/thrillers traditionally focus on a buildup to "whodunnit", and there's definitely some of that in Run the Risk. Most of the book is an ongoing mental duel: the detectives against a masterful criminal mind. Great read!
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