Review: No Escape

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Hot on the trail of a killer, detective Heath Sawyer was determined to capture his man. His own partner had been murdered by the mysterious White Rabbit killer and now another victim has been found in Jamaica. Her sister, beautiful Lauren Cooper, insists on getting involved with the case. But this amateur is one distraction he can't afford.

Lauren isn't going to let her sister die unavenged. She'll use any trick she can to help track the elusive White Rabbit. If that means becoming bait, she will. And if it means working with the sexy detective, all the better…

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: December 2012

Mature content: yes

Review: I found the first part of No Escape amazing. The suspense is limited because you know  almost from the start who the culprit is, but trying to guess how Heath and Lauren are going to pin the murders on the White Rabbit killer's real identity is interesting, to say the least. Heath and Lauren do make a great team - even if he's against it for most of the time. The only little detail that irked me was the fact that almost every character is described as having his or her hair moussed. Almost every single one, and that was weird.

The second part of the book, when things were supposed to get really interesting, ended up just being a messy jumble of magic tricks and and some strange plot twists. It was out of character for Lauren and it didn't feel realistic.

It's almost as if the two parts of the book had been written by different authors. The ending didn't convince me and while I was glued to the pages for the first half of No Escape, I had to make an effort though the rest of it to get to the end.

I'm rating it with three stars because the plot did have potential, but the the final pages lacked credibility to make No Escape a great suspense book.

Happy Wednesday,