Title: Death of an Intern - Laura Wolf Thriller Book 1
Author: Keith M. Donaldson
Published: 10-15-2011
Publisher: BQB Publishing
Pages: 403
Genre: Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense
Sub Genre: Women Sleuths; Cozy Mystery; Amateur Sleuths
ISBN: 13: 9781937084233
ASIN: B00669806A
Reviewer: DelAnne
Reviewed For: NetGalley
Rating: 4.5 Stars
I received a copy of "Death of an Intern" from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
Description
Winner of a Finalist Award in the Mystery Category of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, this riveting, suspenseful novel is an introduction to Donaldson's Laura Wolfe series.
Wolfe, a tenacious beat reporter for The Washington Star, tracks a D.C serial killer who butchers pregnant women and steals their fetuses, dumping the naked bodies with no identification in an obscure part of the city.
When Laura is shown the body of victim number two, she recognizes her as someone named Janet who she had met at a reception for the Vice President of the United States. The victim is quickly identified as Janet Rausch, and Laura begins digging into her background. When the public Janet does not match with the private one, Laura begins to question whether there may have been more to Janet’s death than being a serial killing victim. The mounting evidence Laura accumulates stimulates her inquisitive mind into believing Janet’s murder was planned. Yet she is the only one to believe that theory. Her startling revelation confounds both her lawyer husband and her best friend, Max Walsh, Captain of Homicide for the Washington MPD. Laura persists anyway and goes from the dirty back streets of D.C. to the nation’s capital, to the Virginia suburbs, and into the polished halls of political Washington, as the public is terrorized by a third murder, very much like the previous two.
My Review of "Death of an Intern":
Laura is a character that is driven to find the truth and see that justice is gotten for the victims and their families. She is principled, intelligent woman willing to go to the wall for what she believes in. This thriller is a darker book than I normally read, but that being said I admit to being pulled into the story. It is well written with a compelling plot that is believable. Having been released twelve years ago the reader must take in the changes time have made on the setting and technology. Mr. Donaldson has given us a novel that is guaranteed to send chills down your spine.
My rating of "Death of an Intern" is 4.5 out of 5 stars.
