As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments.But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life. She has been pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate—until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C.
On the other end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son. Eddie Donovan is officially the victim of a vicious carjacking, but under Sam's sharp eye the forensics tell a darker story. The ex-Ranger was murdered, though not for his car.
Forced to confront the burning memories and feelings about yet another loved one killed brutally, Sam loses herself in the mystery contained within Donovan's old notes. It leads her to the untouchable Xander, a soldier off-grid since his return from Afghanistan, and then to a series of brutal crimes stretching from that harsh mountainous war zone to this nation's capital. The tale told between the lines makes it clear that nobody's hands are clean, and that making sense of murder sometimes means putting yourself in the crosshairs of death.
My Review:
This was such a great book! I've really loved her Taylor series, and Sam was just such a great character, so I just had to read this book! And I'm so glad that I did! It was just such an incredible, awesome book! Loved reading it!
So Sam's been through some hard times-from the loss of her baby during the previous series, to the deaths of her husband and twin children, which was especially hard-it was just heartbreaking to read. But it made Sam strong.
This mystery, it was really fantastic! Loved the layers it peeled back, and with the new characters, from the cop guy, to Xander, they were just really awesome, and made the mystery come to life! Just loved all those elements coming together!
Yeah, this was just such a great book, and I enjoyed it a lot! I can't wait for more!
Author: J. T. Ellison
Series: Dr. Sam Owen #1
Read: March 2nd, 2012
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: I loved her Taylor Jackson series, and Sam was a great character, and so I had to read this one!
Publisher: Mira
Expected Publication: April 17th 2012
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