Genre: Thriller
Description:
“Margarita Kauzlaskas (a/k/a Margot), a beautiful immigrant girl from
Lithuania, is determined to have it all, no matter who she has to use to get
it. The result is a long list of enemies, including a jealous husband, a
revengeful ex-wife, an obsessed girlfriend, and a star-crossed lover. After
convincing her four best friends into taking a reunion cruise to Bermuda, on
the night of the ship's return to New York, a body is spotted going overboard.
The next morning, Margot is nowhere to be found.
Enter FBI Agent Richard Heller, whose early abandonment issues cause
him to become obsessed with finding out what happened to the infamous femme
fatale. As the investigation unfolds, an aura of foul play descends upon her
friends as well as her enemies. With insufficient evidence to convict, the case
grows cold––until he receives an anonymous envelope in the mail. Is it
someone's idea of a joke, or can it help him solve the mystery once and for
all?”
Author:
Born in the Republic of San Marino, an enclave in the Apennine
Mountains of northern Italy and one of the smallest independent states in
Europe, Maria Palace moved to the US at a young age. After a career and raising
her family Maria retired from her job in the legal field and started writing.
This is her second book.
Appraisal:
My thoughts on this book are all over the
place. There are some things I liked a lot, the characters, the overall premise
of the book, and to some degree the solving of the mystery. But there were some
things that happened that I found questionable. The FBI agent did a few things
that, while I’m not an attorney, I still recognized as clearly being illegal.
One specific time was not long after he started his investigation when he
basically broke into an office that he didn’t have a warrant to do. That’s not to
say that every FBI agent always toes the line, but this struck me as unlikely
to happen the way it was told. He did a couple other questionable things as the
story progressed. If you’re able to suspend your disbelief in parts like this,
there is a decent story here.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an advance reviewer copy, so I can’t gauge the
final product in this area.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 90-95,000 words
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