BOOK REVIEW | Dark Pursuit
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Dark Pursuit
by Brandilyn Collins
I have had the opportunity to read the Hidden Faces and Kanner Lake Series by Brandilyn Collins. Last November, she released a stand alone book, Dark Pursuit.
Darell Brooke is known as the "King of Suspense,” but right now living up to that name has become a struggle for the first time in his career. After ninety-nine books, he can barely keep his thoughts coherent long enough to string together a complete scene. His loss of memory and feeble attempts at writing have come as a result of a car accident that left his seventyish body changed forever. Darell is not the only one with issues. Seems he has a relative with even bigger issues.
When Kaitlan Serig comes home from work one day she finds a dead body in her bedroom. She immediately suspects her boyfriend was responsible for the murder. Even more horrifying is the thought, he could he be connected to other murders in the area. There is a real problem though. If she goes to the police, Kaitlan knows no one would believe a former drug addict. It also doesn’t help that her boyfriend is a cop and the son of the police chief. Estranged from her grandfather due to her former drug habit, she runs to her grandfather for help, not knowing if he would welcome her. Fortunately for Darell, Kaitlan’s reality-based story sounds like the perfect plot for his next bestseller.
I consider Brandilyn an expert on creating a series and developing characters in such a way each book in the serial has a fresh perspective. Collins certainly knows how to come up with some unique crime scenes or ways to stumble across a body. From the beginning to the end, Brandilyn takes her "Seatbelt Suspense" up another level with Dark Pursuit. The scenes are tight and attention-grabbing.
I thought it was pretty cool to have a suspense writer, writing about another suspense writer. The only difference with this novel, I guess because it was a stand-alone, the action seemed to move too fast for me to absorb. I’m still not quite sure I cared for the ending – the twist just threw me because it really wasn’t on my radar while I was reading. Other than that, I enjoyed the adrenaline-rush.
Brandilyn’s next book release, Exposure, another stand-alone, will hit bookstores May 2009.
Listen to the podcast I did with Brandilyn for Christian Bookworm Podcast.
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