Detective Agnes Kelly-Elliot is an excellent and methodical
cop. She works in Ft Worth Police Department. She knows her job inside and out.
Agnes is also a closeted lesbian and unfortunately for her, her desires could
become her downfall, losing her her family and the career she’s worked so hard
to build.
There is a serial killer on the loose killing young lesbians
in Texas. He or she has been dubbed the Rapture Killer by the press, due to
seemingly religious and maybe ritual sacrifices. The Rapture signaled Christ’s
second coming.
Ranger Cochetta Lovejoy is arrogant,
headstrong and egotistical. She has been assigned the Rapture Killer case.
Cochetta thinks she knows who the killer is. In fact, she’s quite sure of it.
She’ll do whatever it takes to see the killer incarcerated. Even if this means
cutting corners and manipulating judges, police chiefs and other
detectives.
When Cochetta arrives at the scene of another of the Rapture
Killer’s victims, she comes face to face with the person she is sure committed
the murders. The person who had once scared her badly.
Agnes is at the scene of the Rapture Killer’s latest victim
and comes face to face with a woman she thought she’d never see again. What
Agnes didn’t know was, her life was about to be turned upside down and inside
out due to the one encounter she’d had with Ranger Lovejoy in Houston.
Cochetta launches a vendetta to secure the arrest of Agnes. Is
Agnes the serial killer? Will she confess? Or is she innocent? There’s only one
way to find out, wait and see if the murders continue or cease with Agnes out of
the way.
This is without a doubt one of the best crime thrillers I’ve
read in it’s category. The plot is intricately and seamlessly woven together and
well thought out. The storyline is well written. It’s a fast paced, edge of the
seat, nail biting, page turner, from the first page right through to the last
page. It’s intense, it’s full of suspense, it’s grisly, it’s gruesome, it’s a
very real, true to life, gory read. I loved it.
The late AC Henley and Fran Heckrotte between them have
created a masterpiece. I’m still reeling from the story several days after I
finished it.
Agnes, Cochetta and all the rest of the characters are well
formed, multidimensional and interact really well together. So well in fact,
that it’s like being amongst the characters. From the colorful descriptive
dialogue, I found myself transported along watching as the story progressed,
rather than simply reading it.
I particularly enjoyed the build up and suspense throughout
the book. The author’s have ensured that the reader could feel the range of
emotions experienced by all the characters. The utter despair felt by Agnes, the
dislike and self righteousness felt by Cochetta, when she was on her ego trip of
being the big shot ranger who knows best. The one thing that struck me the most,
was how we get to see inside the mind of a serial killer. It was deep, dark and
quite simply horrifying. Which of course, made the book all the more enjoyable
for me.
I wish I could say I could look forward to more from these two
author’s, but I can’t, which makes me very sad. So, suffice it to say, that this
is in my re-read folder, to be read again to savor without the pressures of
knowing the ending.
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