Singularity

True-crime author Kathryn Casey has magnificently written a truly captivating fiction mystery. This is the first book of a series starring Lieutenant Sarah Armstrong, the only criminal profiler and one of only two women in the elite Texas Rangers law enforcement agency. Working out of her hometown, Houston, Texas, she is also a recently widowed, single mother of a young daughter. This engaging story begins with Sarah en route to a Galveston beach house to investigate the heinous murders of a wealthy real estate developer and his mistress. Teamed up with a FBI profiler, the two set out to nab the killer. Clues at this and other crime scenes suggest a serial killer is at large. Other mysteries are unearthed as they relentlessly follow the killer's trail. Meanwhile, Sarah is struggling to balance her investigative duties with comforting and caring for her grieving daughter. A violent confrontation ends this thrilling story. Ms. Casey has brilliantly crafted a complex, intriguing cast of characters who engaged me from start to finish. Sarah Armstrong is the perfect heroine...astute, strong, determined, yet vulnerable. She is a character we can relate to. Her sweet, loving relationship with her grieving little girl is heartwarming. In addition, this well researched book is rich in fascinating details about law enforcement procedures. I absolutely loved this suspenseful novel and I highly recommend it! "Blood Lines" is the second book in the Sarah Armstrong series.

Singularity is one rivetting read! Sarah Armstrong is a believable character...she makes women want to step up and show what we're made of. All I can say is, "move over, Patricia Cornwell, there's a new lady sheriff in town, and her name is Kathryn Casey!

This is a very good read and makes you keep checking to see if you picked up a non-fiction book and just did not notice. Powerful and keeps you riveted to the pages!!

This is one of the most exciting, fascinating, and satisfying police procedurals I've read in a long, long time. The book is very well written, and the complexities of the characters are convincingly developed, from the Texas Ranger heroine herself, through her co-workers and competitors, to her family, and to the serial killer. Along the way are revealed interesting details about police procedures, railroad operations, Houston high society, and even astronomy. The climax, the encounter between the police and the criminal, could be called overdone, but after I decided just to "go with the flow", I enjoyed the suspenseful working out of the perilous situation. I'm looking forward eagerly to the next book in the series.

In his Galveston beach house, someone murders affluent Houston businessman Edward Travis Lucas III and his apparent lover attorney Annmarie Knowles; the killer placed the bodies in ritualistic way to maximize the scandal; thius pointing elsewhere. Galveston and Houston Police Departments claim pieces of the investigation; the Texas Rangers and the FBI also insist they have jurisdiction. In front of the media everyone is cooperative, but at the crime scene and elsewhere away from the spotlight, squabbling her begun. Recently widowed and single mom Texas Ranger profiler Lieutenant Sarah Armstrong works the case along side FBI profiler David Garrity; neither accept the local department's theory that Lucas' wife, Priscilla killed both of them. Instead the two profilers believe a serial killer with a track record in Texas committed the homicides and disguised them to look like a crime of passion. They plan to prove their theory. This is a terrific Texas police procedural with the jurisdictional war kept in the background rising just enough to make for a strong investigation by the profilers. However, the key to this fine yet standard murder mystery is the grieving mother and daughter as each struggles with the recent death of the man in their lives and that in turn deepens the audience's understanding of the caring mother who uses work as a psychological defense mechanism because she cannot mourn her loss too openly at home; her daughter needs her emotionally strong. Fans will enjoy Kathryn Casey's fine insightful tale. Harriet Klausner