Book: The Body Reader
Series: –
Author: Anne Frasier
Genre: Thriller
Format: e-book
Page Count: 304
Published: Thomas & Mercer, June 21, 2016
Source: Publisher
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.
I can’t believe my luck when it comes to mystery and suspense novels. I seem to always be picking the good ones. And Anne Frasier’s THE BODY READER was definitely one of the good ones. Good story, engaging plot, solid characters and a whole lot of intensity. Yes, I think if anyone asked me to describe this book in one word, that would be intense. From the very first page, with the main character Jude’s introduction to us, I got a feeling of suffocation that comes from reading a story which is difficult to read, a situation which is painful to imagine. And that was exactly what glued me to the story, because not only did I want to be inside Jude’s mind and capture whatever there’s to capture, I also wanted to know all about the case she dropped right in the middle of.
There are many well written mysteries and suspense novels out there, but every once in a while I come across one that really tickles my sense of justice and raises my hackles. THE BODY READER did as such. While reading, I felt overwhelmed by many emotions at once, all the while trying to narrow down my own suspect pool.
