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Paperback Book Details
  • 06/2018
  • 9780692134474
  • 208 pages
  • $11.99
Ebook Details
  • 07/2018
  • B07FJY84L7
  • 206 pages
  • $2.99
Colin Beckett
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Harvest of a Wrathful Eye: An Outer Banks Crime Mystery
Dare County Sheriff Marty Tate teams up with fellow law enforcement officers in Virginia in order to locate and apprehend a dangerous and highly intelligent serial killer in this second installment of Colin Beckett’s Outer Banks Crime Mystery series. What was an open missing person’s case becomes a homicide investigation when a body is discovered in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. One month later, a respected psychiatrist is killed aboard his yacht on the waters of Roanoke Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Based upon the offender’s signature, the medical examiner is able to conclude that the same killer was responsible for both homicides. Marty Tate and Deputy Kenny Smith start working the Outer Banks investigation and Lt. Jared McClure and Officer Fred Drury, both with the Virginia State Police, pursue the Virginia case in a coordinated effort to solve both crimes. Meanwhile, the killer is able to elude the investigators in part due to his scrupulous planning, as well as his highly advanced knowledge and experience in cyber-crimes. By exploiting vulnerabilities in modern smartphones, the internet and social media, his prey and their surviving loved ones are caught completely unaware of his murderous behavior and motives. Sheriff Tate and his colleagues are going to have to figure out who the mysterious killer really is as he plays his game of cat and mouse hiding behind a false internet identity before he kills again.
Plot/Idea: 8 out of 10
Originality: 5 out of 10
Prose: 7 out of 10
Character/Execution: 7 out of 10
Overall: 6.75 out of 10

Assessment:

Plot: A serial killer of men with a curious M.O. is at the center of this brisk and satisfying thriller.

Prose: The author writes in clean, pragmatic prose that effectively details the mystery's procedural elements. Beckett infuses the story with simmering tension.

Originality: The roots of many violent crimes can be traced to familial dysfunction, and the killings in Beckett's story follow suit. Novel elements come in the manner that characters plainly and vividly express their seeds of contempt.

Character Development: The characters are generally well drawn, though physical descriptions at times are given unnecessary weight. The story's villainous characters act in manners that are not always sufficiently justified within the narrative.

 

 

 

Date Submitted: August 01, 2018

Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 06/2018
  • 9780692134474
  • 208 pages
  • $11.99
Ebook Details
  • 07/2018
  • B07FJY84L7
  • 206 pages
  • $2.99
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