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Title: Doesn't Rise Above The Routine
Review: The author has an interesting plot but the story doesn't rise above the routine. There are abundant novels about serial killers nowadays and grisly descriptions galore. This one doesn't stand above the crowd.I won't give anything away but toward the end of the novel one of the victims has a gun on the serial killer. She describes what she is going to do to him. The reader's reaction is, "Oh, for Pete's sake." Every reader knows what she describes is not going to happen. If this scene was meant to heighten suspense it did not. A very careless and silly blunder by the author. It would have been so much better, and a shocker, if the lady had actually fired a bullet into the killer's kneecap. Or both kneecaps. THAT would have been a surprise.
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