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Book Review of Victim

Victim
Victim
Author: Gayle Wilson
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


After a judge discarded evidence in a series of the murders of more than a dozen adolescent boys, Samuel Tate, the so called "murder kit" is set free. Leaveing the court house as a free man he faces the mother of Danny Patterson, one his victims. He looks into her eyes and into the muzzle of the gun she's holding when detective Mac Donovan steps in to prevent her from shooting Tate and facing a murder trial herself.
Soon after that Tate vanishes and police and FBI are clueless about his whereabouts.

When Sarah receives a message of Tate on her answering machine, her ex-husband is killed in her apartment no one except Sarah and Mac believe this might be the work of Tate stepping out of his patterns. Only after a little boy is killed where Sarah used to walk her dog and lately had her new little friend Dwight accompany their play and walk, the police begins to react and make a plan that can cost Sarah's life which the selfless puts on the line for getting Tate.

Had I known this book is from the romantic suspense genre I would have been suspicious but so I wasn't and was graetly disappointed after the prolouge which began a bit graphic with the abduction of Sarah's own son and the thoughts of Samuel Tate. So the prolouge kept me on the edge of my seat and after that it just went flat. Finding neither some excitement in the plot nor finding much romance, the book seems to be unfinished and leaves the reader with his own imagination about the serial killer. I definitely read better books by Gayle Wilson.