Prior to the devastating murder of his
tiny daughter, Zoe, and disappearance of his wife, Leah, Jack Slaughter was a
police officer. Failing to protect the two people he loved most in the world,
he took a sabbatical but was asked to return after a year. Jack didn’t return, and he’s three years into
searching for Leah while supporting himself as a private investigator. He
believes Leah is out there, suffering at the hands of a brute. Jack receives text messages about murdered
women. He always fears the victim will be Leah.
After rushing to yet another the crime
scene, an officer named Travers insults him, and his mistreatment is confusing
to Jack. His best friend, another officer, Ray Navarro, keeps Jack in line.
A client, Carl Boyd hires
Jack to find his wife, Bonnie. Jack digs deep and learns Bonnie and another
man, Julian, are having an affair. Which man loves her? This is one of four mysterious
disappearances of women, and P.I. In a personal way Jack Slaughter cares about
each victim as he tries to solve these crimes and identify the twisted serial
killer.
Author K.A. Lugo tells this perfect
whodunit with gusto with a thrilling and engrossing pace from the first scene
to the last. I enjoyed Jack’s heart-to-heart talks with the parish priest who
married Leah and him and with his friend, Ray, who fills in some information.
Scenes sink the reader into authentic San Francisco. Jack lives above a
restaurant in China Town. When he speaks with people, he holds back his dark
despair, but as a reader, I related. I highly recommend Slaughtered, an addictive mystery and as intricately detailed as it
is tantalizingly page-turning. Book 2 is
in the works, and I anticipate another winner by talented K.A. Lugo.
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