Thursday, March 14, 2013

Review - Dead Suite

Title: Dead Suite
Author: Wendy Roberts
Publisher: InterMix (February 19, 2013)
Format: e-Book; 610 KB; Pgs 248
Genre: Mystery
Source: Amazon
Series: A Ghost Duster Mystery #4

I am disappointed. This book came across as a rush job with no final re-read to make sure that the little things such as extra words in a sentence or the repetition of a paragraph were removed, than a finished product that has taken 4 years to come to the market.

I know that I am being harsh, but I had enjoyed the first three books in this series and I was very dissatisfied.

In the previous books, I remember Sadie being a very strong independent woman. The Sadie in this book sounds more like an angst ridden teen who has been dumped by her boyfriend just before prom. For goodness sakes Sadie, you are a grown adult, you do not leave begging and pleading messages on your ex-boyfriends phone.

Back to the plotline. Apparently, there is a downturn in the trauma clean up business so when a string of prostitutes are murdered in hotel rooms, Sadie is glad for the business. What she is not so glad for is the undead reaching out for her help or a serial killer leaving her appendages in hopes that she will help in the cleansing of the streets.

Throw in a haunted house, an interesting male distraction, a séance that almost gets Sadie dragged off to hades and a crying baby with an awful name and pretty much you have a week in the life of Sadie Novak Scene-2-Clean trauma clean up specialist.

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