A review by alisarae
The Last Word by Taylor Adams

Okay so I haven't read a book by a man in a Mississippi minute, and wheew is the pacing different! The killer is mise-en-scène so early on that I was wondering how the author was going to stretch out the story for as long as he did. I am used to thrillers that drag out the anticipation and leave the direct confrontation for the last 30%, vs in this book the confrontation starts in the first 30%. The action scenes were dynamic and well written, there was just a lot of it. The plot twists are kind of ridiculous, but well, my advice is to embrace your inner Michael Scott ("he is his own brother!") and go with it.