The key to deception is subtlety. While Jeffrey Deaver has certainly mastered the art of deception in this book, the latter he hasn’t.

After enjoying the first three books in the Colter Shaw series. I can’t help but feel let down by the fourth offering. After reading and enjoying the previous trio I was excited to start Hunting Time.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite the same. While certain traits and characteristics remained, it stretched the ‘Colter Shaw saves the day’ plot to the extreme.

Attempting misdirection at every possible opportunity. It took suspense away from the twists and instead of being unguessable, they became very predictable.

The plot of the book wasn’t great either. Too convoluted and trying too hard it did a bad job of blending all the attempted elements together. Trying for a mystery thriller to engage with humour littered throughout. We ended up with a cheesy mess that was easy to guess.