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Fog and Fury (Haven Thrillers #1) by Rachel Howzell Hall | 386 pages pages I really wanted to like this book, because I really liked the premise of a big city cop moving to a small town to become a private investigator. It's a great setup for what could easily be a series of books (and seems to be, since there is now a follow-up to this book), and there's something quaint about the idea of a character who's seen some real metropolitan crime now dealing with small-town cases like missing dogs and whatnot. Sadly, the book didn't really keep my interest long enough to get invested in the story or the characters. It seems like the author didn't do much research at all (like, the kind where a simple look at Google Maps would have avoided some geographic confusion), crammed in a ton of unnecessary characters just to keep the narrative moving, and kept playing some pretty predictable tropes in terms of the mystery the protagonist is trying to solve. I read one of this author's other titles (We Lie Here) a couple of years ago and, unfortunately, this book isn't much of an improvement over that one, and has many of the same issues. I don't think this is an author I'm going to be reading again in the future... unless I forget that I've read previous books and get suckered in by a new book description on Amazon First Reads.  |
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