Helpful Score: 3
Apparently this was book 4 in the Alison Reynolds series and I have missed out on some very good storylines that were a bit relevant to the telling of this story.
While Ali Reynolds is remodeling her house in Sedona, with the help of her butler Leland, Bryan Forrester, her general contractor is arrested for the brutal murder of his philandering wife. Bryan swears that no matter how bad it looks, and its not good, that he didnt do it.
Of course Ali needs her house finished so she does some digging and finds out that Bryans wife isnt the first person to die that was associated with singleatheart.com a dating site for married men and women.
Very good, if somewhat unrealistic ending, I recommend this book, but begin at the beginning of the series.
While Ali Reynolds is remodeling her house in Sedona, with the help of her butler Leland, Bryan Forrester, her general contractor is arrested for the brutal murder of his philandering wife. Bryan swears that no matter how bad it looks, and its not good, that he didnt do it.
Of course Ali needs her house finished so she does some digging and finds out that Bryans wife isnt the first person to die that was associated with singleatheart.com a dating site for married men and women.
Very good, if somewhat unrealistic ending, I recommend this book, but begin at the beginning of the series.
Helpful Score: 1
Former TV personality, Ali Reynolds, has been known to get involved with police investigations in an effort to help solve crimes. And this murder is no different.
Ali Reynolds is renovating her new house when the foreman of her construction crew is arrested for murdering his wife. Ali knows Bryan Forester pretty well and doesn't believe he has done this horrible crime. When Bryan asks Ali to help him investigate, she agrees to help and soon finds herself in hot water with both the detective involved and the murderer.
This is a really well written mystery with many seemingly unrelated characters who are all unbelievably intertwined. You know who the murderer is from the first page but following the police -- while they waste their time assuming the husband did it -- is very interesting. Though, as expected, it is Ali who ultimately solves the mystery.
This is the first book I've read by J.A. Jance but it will certainly not be the last. What a terrific book!
Ali Reynolds is renovating her new house when the foreman of her construction crew is arrested for murdering his wife. Ali knows Bryan Forester pretty well and doesn't believe he has done this horrible crime. When Bryan asks Ali to help him investigate, she agrees to help and soon finds herself in hot water with both the detective involved and the murderer.
This is a really well written mystery with many seemingly unrelated characters who are all unbelievably intertwined. You know who the murderer is from the first page but following the police -- while they waste their time assuming the husband did it -- is very interesting. Though, as expected, it is Ali who ultimately solves the mystery.
This is the first book I've read by J.A. Jance but it will certainly not be the last. What a terrific book!
Helpful Score: 1
Love these books!
Helpful Score: 1
This is a good gripping crime story. There's quite a bit of detail about unrelated characters that's probably necessary to build interest in the series but I found it distracting.
Helpful Score: 1
The Ali Reynolds series is getting better and better! The characters are developing nicely and have improved from the first two novels in the series. I've thoroughly enjoyed the last two, and am looking forward to the fifth. Ali's contractor and friend Bryan Forester's philandering wife is found bludgeoned to death, and naturally suspicion falls on him. Ali seems to be the only one who believes in his innocence, to the point of causing some friction between her and her sometime boyfriend Dave Holman, who is in charge of the investigation. She starts doing a little digging on her own, but opens up a major can of worms that soon spins out of control.
I was a little leery at first about having the identity of the murderer revealed to the reader from the very beginning, wondering if that meant the suspense in the novel would fall flat. I needn't have worried - Jance handled it splendidly. The ending did feel a little bit rushed and maybe could have been more drawn out to milk the most out of the villain, but for me the best part of the book is the character development. I have come to like them much better in the last two books, and the secondary characters too are much more interesting, though her love interest the detective could use a little more polishing. I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment!
I was a little leery at first about having the identity of the murderer revealed to the reader from the very beginning, wondering if that meant the suspense in the novel would fall flat. I needn't have worried - Jance handled it splendidly. The ending did feel a little bit rushed and maybe could have been more drawn out to milk the most out of the villain, but for me the best part of the book is the character development. I have come to like them much better in the last two books, and the secondary characters too are much more interesting, though her love interest the detective could use a little more polishing. I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment!
