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A review by asteroidbuckle
True Evil by Greg Iles
5.0
This book rocked my socks!
Exciting from beginning to end, I could not put it down. In two nights I read 400 pages and that is rare for me. The plot was exciting, the characters were likeable, and there was just enough far-fetched (but still plausible) stuff going on to make it one of my favorites.
Greg Iles has been one of my favorite authors for a long time and with the exception of The Footprints of God, has never let me down when I need an escape. He crafts his characters so expertly, I wish they were real so I could meet them.
The premise of this book is this: an avaricious divorce lawyer teams up with an uber-creepy pathologist/hematologist to kill people by giving them cancer or otherwise making it look like natural causes. Meanwhile, the spouses who hired them are shelling over millions for the services rendered, because it's still cheaper than giving their ex-spouse half in the divorce.
Enter Special Agent Alex Morse. While it irritates me that it seems to be a growing trend to make all heroines have "boy" names (maybe I just like to think I'm an original - ha!), Alex is a great character. She has issues, real issues. Her father was just killed in a robbery. Her mother's dying of ovarian cancer. Her sister just died of a stroke and told Alex on her deathbed that her husband killed her. With a little digging, Alex discovers who's next on the list - country doctor and all-around good guy, Dr. Chris Shepard.
The thing I love most about Iles' books are that things don't always end neatly. The protagonists, in this case, do not end up together outright at the end, but it's hinted that they soon will be. The characters' scars remain and in this world of happy endings, that's refreshing.
Terrific book!
Exciting from beginning to end, I could not put it down. In two nights I read 400 pages and that is rare for me. The plot was exciting, the characters were likeable, and there was just enough far-fetched (but still plausible) stuff going on to make it one of my favorites.
Greg Iles has been one of my favorite authors for a long time and with the exception of The Footprints of God, has never let me down when I need an escape. He crafts his characters so expertly, I wish they were real so I could meet them.
The premise of this book is this: an avaricious divorce lawyer teams up with an uber-creepy pathologist/hematologist to kill people by giving them cancer or otherwise making it look like natural causes. Meanwhile, the spouses who hired them are shelling over millions for the services rendered, because it's still cheaper than giving their ex-spouse half in the divorce.
Enter Special Agent Alex Morse. While it irritates me that it seems to be a growing trend to make all heroines have "boy" names (maybe I just like to think I'm an original - ha!), Alex is a great character. She has issues, real issues. Her father was just killed in a robbery. Her mother's dying of ovarian cancer. Her sister just died of a stroke and told Alex on her deathbed that her husband killed her. With a little digging, Alex discovers who's next on the list - country doctor and all-around good guy, Dr. Chris Shepard.
The thing I love most about Iles' books are that things don't always end neatly. The protagonists, in this case, do not end up together outright at the end, but it's hinted that they soon will be. The characters' scars remain and in this world of happy endings, that's refreshing.
Terrific book!