Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Review: Experiment in Terror, Seams of Destruction & Murder in Lava Cove by Alene Anderson

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Title: Experiment in Terror
Series: Koehler Brothers
Author: Alene Anderson
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 30, 2015
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
ASIN: B00T0VFFJ6

Matt Koehler

His assignment is to go undercover as a homeless man in a university town in order to catch a serial killer who has raped and killed three girls.

Amanda Barton

She is successful businesswoman who finds herself attracted to a homeless man, not knowing he is an undercover officer. When she is kidnapped by the serial killer, can Matt find her in time to prevent her from being raped and murdered?

My rating:

DNF @ 14%

With almost every minutiae of the day explained in detail, I was bored before the first chapter was through.
There was nothing exciting, nothing to pull me in, to make me want to read forward.



Title: Seams of Destruction
Series: Koehler Brothers
Author: Alene Anderson
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: August 19, 2015
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
ASIN: B013GUFM8K

When model Jade McDermott stumbles over the dead body of the production manager of Sorrento’s House of Fashion, the police suspect her of the murder. Scheduled to go on a trip to Milan, Italy, where she will be participating in a fashion show, she is told she will be accompanied by a policeman since she is considered a flight risk.

Mitch Koehler is the man the chief of the LAPD has chosen for the trip to Milan because of his dislike of women. But he has a wonderful time with Jade in Italy and begins to believe that she isn’t a murderer. When they return to Los Angeles, can Mitch save Jade when she is threatened by the real murderer?

My rating:

DNF @ 14%

Once more rather dull with every minutiae described, despite the heroine actually stumbling upon a dead body and spending the night in jail in the first chapter.

I figured I don't care about the narrative style and voice. It sounds very high-school essay-y, and not like a "novel".



Title: Murder in Lava Cove
Author: Alene Anderson

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 28, 2016
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
ASIN: B01M1DPUII

Maggie Garrett graduated from medical school and is doing her residency in Lava Cove, Utah. The first day in the new town she is out running with a Golden Retriever and she discovers a dead body.

Zach Landel is the owner of the Desert Winds Casino in Las Vegas. He was a helicopter rescue pilot in the Marines and when he stepped on a land mind, it exploded and he lost one eye. Now he wears a patch, one that bothers him but doesn’t seem to faze the intriguing Maggie Garrett.

Despite their differences, can he and Maggie work together to solve the murder of his employee?

My rating:

DNF @ 15 %

The writing style and voice is definitely the problem for me with this author. Juvenile-sounding, with too many details crammed into the descriptions...

Then I decided to try something "new" and went for the last chapter...And promptly got a cavity thanks to all he sugary sweetness. It sounded like a Barbara Cartland knock-off.

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