Acquired Motives

This book reads like Patricia Cornwell used to write before she got so tangled up in procedure and DRAMATIC personality. I've tried Sarah Lovett before and come away less-than-satisfied, but the Santa Fe setting of her Silvia Strange stories is just too seductive. I'm glad I was tempted back because this is an interesting and complicated book. A little gruesome, but interesting and complicated. The story has an early twist in that the murdered are violent sex offenders and the killer is a vigilante. In addition to following the ins and outs of the stories, we're challenged to examine how we feel about vigilante justice. There are some fairly extraordinary coincidences and some odd character development, but they are really incidental to the overall story.

This book is a real page turner. The book is very much like a Patricia Cornwell novel. Sylvia Strange is a criminal psychologist trying to find out who is behind a string of murders that have been happening to supposed rapists etc., who have been cleared of their crime. Buy this book and you won't be able to put it down.