Thursday, November 12, 2020

The Deadly School (A Boarding Case Mystery Book 1)

Author:  Laura Greene
Genre:   Mystery

Digital Book
ASIN #:  B08KNXH7WD
54 Pages
$.99 Amazon
November 12, 2020

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What was haunting you, Anna?

Detective Tina James is called in to investigate a number of suicide cases at Hartford Boarding School.  She's specifically told to treat the case as an internal matter to avoid bad publicity for the prestigious school.

Aptly assisted by dashing and kindly school chaplain, Nick Collins, Tina must enter unfamiliar ground to save the lives of those most at risk.  When she comes across troubling evidence she's forced into a race against time as she solves the sinister secrets of Hartford.

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Detective Tina James has just moved to Hartford from Boston with her boyfriend, Dale.  They're starting new lives together and she hopes that her relationship will survive the move.  But when she's called in to investigate a series of teenage suicides at a boarding school, she needs to take as much time as she can to solve the case, and with the unexpected help of someone at the school and the chaplain, she manages to get to the heart of the matter...

Maybe I'm the wrong audience for this book, but I just didn't enjoy it much.  First, she moves with her boyfriend to start a life together, but when an unexpected event - one unexpected event - occurs, then that goes haywire.  I just didn't understand that at all.  It didn't seem like they even loved each other.

Then, first we're told it's a girls' school but then there are boys in a different dormitory.  So that kind of was odd.  As the story progressed, it seemed like nothing was coming together in a rational way.  I'll let the reader decide if they know what I'm talking about.  As for the ending, well, I don't really like cliffhangers, as I've always felt that it's holding the reader hostage; making them read the next book.  

However, the writing was very good and the story was short enough that I read it in about fifteen minutes, so that was a plus as I didn't invest a lot of time before I got to the ending.  Others might find this a very interesting book, so please take a chance.



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