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5.0
Seven Devils by Steve McManus is a mystery crime thriller that will grip you till the end. The author presents the reader with two murders, a year old and the cases have gone cold. The police say that the cases are still active, but with no clues, any witnesses dead, and no one connected wanting to talk. Things aren’t what they as two different people investigate from different angles and with different agendas. Ursula shows up to her friend’s apartment where she is staying and finds the place broken into. She finds herself attacked and on the run as two people are hunting her. Why? Her friend is missing and the last message she sent is cryptic. Another person, Danny, is on the hunt for a story. He too is investigating the case of the two murdered women, but he’s going to find, just like Ursula, that this goes deeper than he could have imagined.
Seven Devils is an in-depth mystery novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you read to find out what happens next and the truth of what happened to the murdered women. The story alternates chapter by chapter between Danny and Ursula. They each are conducting their own investigations, but Danny’s is on-going from the beginning while Ursula’s stems from the strange disappearance of her friend. The author does an excellent job with this story. You get handed things piece by piece like a giant puzzle and it’s like you’re piecing things together along with the characters if not a step behind at times. The author builds the story layer by layer as the characters delve deeper and deeper and the dangers only creep closer.
There isn’t anything that I don’t like about this story. There are moments of where I don’t like the characters or become annoyed with their actions/choices, but I applaud the author for having the characters be so real. The characters are flawed, but it adds to the story and makes it hard to put down. The author raises questions but does not leave the reader without answers to most of them.
I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars. If you enjoy a good mystery crime thriller that leads you on a merry road of exploration, danger, thrills and dark answers, then this is a good book to pick up. This is book two in a series, but it’s not entirely necessary to have read the first book to understand what is going on. The author only touches on a couple of incidents that happened in the first book, so this book all-in-all can be read as a standalone. I enjoyed this mystery and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.
Seven Devils is an in-depth mystery novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you read to find out what happens next and the truth of what happened to the murdered women. The story alternates chapter by chapter between Danny and Ursula. They each are conducting their own investigations, but Danny’s is on-going from the beginning while Ursula’s stems from the strange disappearance of her friend. The author does an excellent job with this story. You get handed things piece by piece like a giant puzzle and it’s like you’re piecing things together along with the characters if not a step behind at times. The author builds the story layer by layer as the characters delve deeper and deeper and the dangers only creep closer.
There isn’t anything that I don’t like about this story. There are moments of where I don’t like the characters or become annoyed with their actions/choices, but I applaud the author for having the characters be so real. The characters are flawed, but it adds to the story and makes it hard to put down. The author raises questions but does not leave the reader without answers to most of them.
I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars. If you enjoy a good mystery crime thriller that leads you on a merry road of exploration, danger, thrills and dark answers, then this is a good book to pick up. This is book two in a series, but it’s not entirely necessary to have read the first book to understand what is going on. The author only touches on a couple of incidents that happened in the first book, so this book all-in-all can be read as a standalone. I enjoyed this mystery and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.
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