This was my first book by PJ Parrish. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I also found myself thinking half-way through the book that it would make a great tv movie but they no longer have "Movie of the Week". The character Louis Kincaid would even make a great PI series. It is a straight-forward book involving PI Kincaid and various police departments looking for a kidnapped boy and inept convicts are involved......but why was the boy kidnapped? Great story line.

The characters are all pretty stereotypical, and don't show much growth. And the plot isn't brilliant. But the pacing is very impressive. Tense, taut, tightly written.

~ML~

This book in the series was disturbing to say the least. I don't believe this is one of the better books in the series.

Getting better and better. On to the next one.

PJ Parrish has a way of making her characters so real, even the villains and antagonists have complex personalities. Even when they do awful things, somehow you can still feel sorry for them. Uncle Leo, however, was one of the ugliest people I've read about in a while and I thoroughly enjoyed waiting to see what would happen to him. I loved Joe--the female detective Louis Kincaid worked with in this book. And the mother whose child was taken, whom Louis was interested in, and I WANTED to like, was a real mixed bag--which was intended. Parrish does a great job of creating characters you can't quite like but can't quite totally dislike either. Everything about her stories--the plot, the characters--is complicated. This book didn't hook me quite as much as Island of Bones, but it was sure good!

I know I'm reading these out of order, but they aren't easy to get my hands on. I was glad I read this one though. It explains where Joe comes from in the other one I read. And it explains more about Louis's aloofness, his loneliness. An excellent series.

A KILLING RAIN was the first book I read by this duo author. It is the 6th installement in a series. Although I have not read any of the previous books, I was still able to get into the storyline very quickly! It was fast paced- action from beginning to end. I found Louis to be a very likeable character and I look forward to reading more of his story and his previous and next cases to come. Excellent read!!

Even though this one is classified as a mystery I think of it as a suspense or thriller. It was the usual great book written by Parrish.