4 stars

Richard Laughlin and John Joseph Gallagher are FBI agents who take on special crimes. They are close to retirement age.

A concert-goer is murdered at a live concert by injection. The FBI suspects that this is the third such death. How does one catch such a killer at concert venues? This is a well written and plotted novel. It is both a taut and suspense-filled ride through music venues. The FBI Agents are brilliant, but are they smart enough to catch this guy?

This is a very challenging investigation for the FBI agents. They are being taunted by a very savvy and elusive serial killer. How to know when and where he will strike again? But that he will kill again is a certainty.

This is an exciting and suspenseful romp through music venues and through a killer’s mind.

I want to thank Netgalley and First Edition Design Publishing for forwarding to me a copy of this book to read.

This book tool me a very, very long time to get through. I enjoyed it, but I think that it could have been scaled back a little bit and still been just as good, just shorter and quicker to read. There is a serial killer on the lose and he has killed at an Aerosmith concert in Boston. The kill count starts ticking up almost immediately and before you know it there were 30, 40 deaths reported and no sign of the "unsub" (I felt like I was reading an episode of Criminal Minds) It seemed that the killer has been triggered by losing a scholarship and the kills just keep getting bigger and bigger. Police find out that he had killed his parents but did their jobs from home as them for a while to get their money and not have anyone notice that they had disappeared! Kind of genius, I have to admit. He wants to be known as the Concert Killer and all of the victims are "in concert with death". I won't go into too much more detail but like I said the kills get bigger and bigger. And are just unbelievable (or at least they were at the time I read this a few months ago, now with there being a mass shooting at a concert maybe I feel a bit different.) The other thing about the book I didn't really like was how short the chapters were. Like a page or two. It just seemed to chop the book up a lot and I could never get a flow going which may be why it took me so long to finish! If that is a detail you can ignore and you don't mind longer books and enjoy a good concert murder mystery I think you will enjoy this one.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

Great for those days where you don't have too much time, fast read but well written and able to hold your attention throughout.