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Synopsis
Mary Catherine 'MC' Riggio and Kitt Lundgren, detective partners at the Rockford, Violent Crimes Bureau, have been through a lot together. Lately, though, things have begun to look up: MC is about to get married, while Kitt is slowly coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. Suddenly, the fragile peace of their world is shattered when MC's cousin Tommy is found brutally murdered at his home. Suddenly, nothing will be the same again. A killer is on the loose, someone who quickly and systematically works his way down a seemingly unconnected list of victims. With the body count rising, MC realises that she has to keep her head in the game and use her grief to fuel the hunt, but as the madman draws ever closer, Kitt and MC begin to struggle to walk that fine line between protecting the law ? and taking it into their own hands ...
Review
Erica's book is fantastic!
Breakneck is a fast-moving and gripping police thriller that manages to keep up an incredible momentum. A new revelation or murder every couple of pages that throw you off-balance by the fact that almost any one involved in the investigation is potentially expendable! That makes the novel a great read - it's very well paced and written with equal attention given to the case and the personal lives of the characters with the case unravelling in a quite unconventional manner. Detectives Mary Catherine Ruggio and her partner Kitt Lundgren are great characters and seem to work very well together.
As the number of bodies pile up you would expect a bit more care and diligence , particularly as the series of mysterious execution killings being carried out by a professional hitman on a group of young adults brings the matter very close to MC's family and their business. Whether it is through the case being too close or the personal pressures and losses that each of the detectives have to deal with in their own private lives, they make some unthinkable errors, being particularly lax with those in police custody, that result in further unnecessary and shocking deaths.
You can perhaps forgive some of the flaws for the fact that it does show its characters as human and subject to normal pressure, giving the story an extra edge of their being something very real at stake. There's no excuse however for such a conventional set-up when MC confronts her killer.
Overall though this is a strong, well-written novel with no shortage of thrills, twists and surprises.
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