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Print Length: 312 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1514100959
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Publisher: River Heights (June 2, 2015)
Publication Date: June 2, 2015
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Language: English
ASIN: B00XLYR1KE
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Random Acts of Deceit is the second book in the Holly Anna Paladin’s series. The first book is entitled Random Acts of Murder. I enjoyed following Holly around in the first book. It wasn’t the first time fans of Holly met her; she actually made an appearance in one of Barritt’s other book, Mucky Streak. Barritt does a good job at creating action that grips the hard-core mystery fans with realistic characters, and a formulaic who done it mystery.The writing is spot on. The dialogue hustles the action along while deepening the story with the prose showing the internal struggles and thoughts of Holly. All of Christy Barritt’s books, besides the Love Inspired Suspense books, are written in the first person point of view, so I develop quite a relationship with each character as the series progress. The dialogue and prose make me feel like I’m listening to a close friend who is spilling their deepest, darkest secrets.One problem I did have was that all of Barritt’s first-person characters are starting to sound like the same person. Yes, they have different personalities and are solving different crimes, but for some reason, in this book, Holly didn’t sound any different than Gabby St. Clair from her Squeaky Clean Mysteries. Not that this affecting my enjoyment of the book. I really liked the mystery.The pace of the novel is just right for a cozy mystery. There is incident after incident, all threatening Holly and giving her no choice but no comply with the Shadow Man, as Holly nicknamed the man who is ruining her life.I really enjoy returning to familiar characters like Holly and Chase.
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