Book Review: Family Lies by Karen Rose

 

Family Lies is a suspense thriller written by award winning novelist, Karen Rose. This is the fourth novel in the San Diego Case File series. 

San Diego Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick and police psychologist/ boyfriend Sam Reeves. 

This case focuses on Lit’s foster sister Akiko. A recently deceased woman, Mary leaves a message on Aliko’s answer machine claiming to have information about her birth mother. Kit is shot and wounded when she goes to Mary’s house at Akiko’s request to find out what she knows about her mother and finds Her body. and the story develops from there.  Mary had been in touch with Aliko’s sensei and mentor (who was subsequently beaten up). The plot line is increasingly murky as they are drawn into the Japanese mafia underworld. 

I enjoyed this novel, but I did find it to be very long and complicated with lots of subplots and characters that were superfluous to or didn’t add anything to the storyline. I found the name changing for the Japanese characters very confusing, and unnecessary. The plot line could could have been pared down without losing the overall direction of the plot. 

Book Review: Off Grid And Off Limits by Jenni Fletcher

Off Grid And Off Limits is Jenni Fletcher’s first Mills and Boon Modern novel. It is set in the world of Formula 1. Dario is an F1 driver, recently divorced, aiming at winning the championship at the end of season whilst Livi, has recently been dumped for someone else right before her wedding. She writes biographies and sees writing Dario’s biography  as a steppingstone, a way of getting closer to her goal of interviewing and writing the biography of one of her childhood heroes. Both characters are anti relationship, focused on their careers but slowly they get closer but will it last as the F1 season heats up?

This was a short but enjoyable novel. The characters were fun, relatable and worked well together. The storyline was well written and wasn’t dominated by F1 references, which for me was was great,  as I know nothing about it. 

I enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting. I would be interested in reading more Books by the author as I found the quality and pacing of the novel to be good. 

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