Body of Lies By Deirdre Savoy

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A cop and a clinical psychologist discover dangerous desire when they join forces to track down a serial killer. Body of Lies

Longtime friend Zack and Alex together to find who Amazon killer is. Not only do they stumble on a Secret well beyond. What's there's love for one another ? Who will drastically get injured first who will be left who will solve the murder Paperback This is a very good book I enjoyed it from the very beginning to the very end!!!!! Paperback Meh, not really a good book. I skimmed through most of it and then read the last page. Paperback Alexandra Walters has been tapped by the cops to help them find a killer that she might have counselled a life time ago. The cops - especially Zach Stone- believes that her client might be the killer, Alex does not. It seems that Alex and Zach have a past, and while they work on the case, there's a chance of some sort of rapprochement if they can get past their shared past.

This story worked on many levels, I'm glad to say. The suspense had teeth, and kept you on your toes. Alex and Zach were complicated characters with complex pasts - separately and together. The narrative was confident and near seamless, and there are a couple parts in the book that might break your heart - or trigger terrible memories if you're prone to such things, so have a care when reading.

Where the book falls down, ironically, is where its strongest. Alex and Zach are so complicated and distant that at times, I didn't feel that I could get too close to them. So, while I'm reading and want to know them (so that I can root for whatever they had), I really couldn't. At times it felt like eating cake through glass.

For instance, I don't even know Zach's race, or how he looks like. I can understand if Ms Savoy wants to do a
Heinlein where you hold off describing the person until the reader falls in love with the character only to discover that he/she is a different race from what you thought he/she was (Heinlein did it a lot- white people thought that they were reading white characters and well... yeah). You don't really know what Alex looks like either (ignore the black woman on the book cover, you just don't know).

In addition, Zach has some family problems, and you get the feeling that probably Zach was in another book, and his character was already introduced (like a brother of another character or something), so there's this sort of assumption that you might already know this character, as if you came into a second act or something.

On one hand, that works, because it makes you work harder as a reader to pay attention, to follow the story... but it fails on the other hand because at the end of the book, you still don't know Zach as you'd have liked so. To a lesser extent, it's the same with Alex.

Long review short: it's a good story, worth the cover price. The characters are interesting and identifiable to some extent, but not warm enough to revisit their world.

It's a book that deserves its rating. Paperback Rating this book was a bit tough. My inclination was to give it two stars (it was okay), but I felt generous for two reasons. One was the description of scenes from a Bronx that I grew up in, and the other was kind of a 'E' for effort feeling for a relatively unknown author. The writing is technically competent and the premise was good. But the full potential for such a story was never achieved.

You would expect that the plot of a serial killer and a psychiatrist who had possibly treated him in the past would hold more suspense. The romance element was emphasized too much so that it got in the way and impeded the pace. The lead character, an African-American female psychiatrist, should have been more developed - black, female AND a psychiatrist - one would think such a character offered many possibilities to create a more interesting portrait; instead we find a rather easily intimidated, rather weak, almost morose female brooding over a past love affair. The male character also lacks depth, and his family relationships as well tend to get in the way of the story.

In short, proficient but a bit bland. Paperback