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A review by ncrabb
Most Wanted by Michele Martinez
3.0
It’s already been a long day at work, and the child won’t sleep. Melanie Vargas is at her wit’s end. Earlier in the week, she threw her husband out for cheating on her, and she’s raising six-month-old Maya, sleepless nights and all. It’s the age-old solution: If the kid won’t sleep, bundle it into something that moves and vibrates, and the child will drop off ere long. Into the stroller goes Maya, and out into the steamy New York night goes mom and the little girl. But what’s all the commotion down the block? Looks like someone’s house is on fire, and if Melanie’s right, it’s the house of a well-known former federal prosecutor. A fictional current federal prosecutor herself, Melanie realizes if she can snag this case, she’ll have a high-profile case that could launch her career upward. She gets the case, and she gets in over her head soon enough.
His name is Slice. They call him that because of the way he mutilates his victims when he kills them. He had a good time carving up that former prosecutor and burning the house down around him. And best of all, he has a mole in the clanking bureaucracy of the prosecutor’s office who can keep him a step ahead of local and federal law-enforcement officials.
As Melanie digs further into the case, her best intentions of raising her daughter responsibly seem to get threadbare. She’s all eaten up by the guilt of not being home with the kid, but that didn’t garner much sympathy here. She came across as a woman with a rather thin moral compass—eagerly wrapping her legs around the waist of her almost-out-of-her life husband one minute and making out with a mysterious FBI agent for whom she clearly has feelings despite the ongoing nature of a faltering marriage.
It’s a race against time as Slice finds more witnesses who could have testified at a trial regarding the dead prosecutor and now never will. Melanie must figure out who the mole is in her department before Slice works on her.
I’ll read the next book in this series at some point, just not immediately. For those of you who care, note that the profanity index runs high throughout this. It’s a fast-paced mystery that seems realistic in many ways.
His name is Slice. They call him that because of the way he mutilates his victims when he kills them. He had a good time carving up that former prosecutor and burning the house down around him. And best of all, he has a mole in the clanking bureaucracy of the prosecutor’s office who can keep him a step ahead of local and federal law-enforcement officials.
As Melanie digs further into the case, her best intentions of raising her daughter responsibly seem to get threadbare. She’s all eaten up by the guilt of not being home with the kid, but that didn’t garner much sympathy here. She came across as a woman with a rather thin moral compass—eagerly wrapping her legs around the waist of her almost-out-of-her life husband one minute and making out with a mysterious FBI agent for whom she clearly has feelings despite the ongoing nature of a faltering marriage.
It’s a race against time as Slice finds more witnesses who could have testified at a trial regarding the dead prosecutor and now never will. Melanie must figure out who the mole is in her department before Slice works on her.
I’ll read the next book in this series at some point, just not immediately. For those of you who care, note that the profanity index runs high throughout this. It’s a fast-paced mystery that seems realistic in many ways.