Sunday, February 14, 2021

Review: Close Up by Amanda Quick

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Title: Close Up
Series: Burning Cove
Author: Amanda Quick
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: May 5, 2020
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B07WCKL629

Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills.

After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the murderer the press has dubbed the “Dagger Killer,” Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous victims—details that only another photographer would have noticed—details that put Vivian at the top of the killer’s target list.

Nick Sundridge has always been able to “see” things that others don’t, coping with disturbing dreams and visions. His talent, or as he puts it—his curse—along with his dark past makes him a recluse, but a brilliant investigator. As the only one with the ability to help, Nick is sent to protect Vivian. Together, they discover the Dagger Killer has ties to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood royalty and high society. It is a cutthroat world of allure and deception that Vivian and Nick must traverse—all in order to uncover the killer who will stop at nothing to add them to their gallery of murders.

My rating:

Vivien Brazier is trying to make it in the photography-as-art world, but to end makes meet, she moonlights as a freelance crime-scene photographer. Her keen eye for detail also provides her with a clue that breaks the serial-killer case wide open...Which spurs said serial killer to try to kill Vivian in retaliation.
She fights him off, but before he can be arrested, he escapes, only to be killed in a hit-and-run.

And then Nick Sundridge appears on Vivian's doorstep claiming she's in the sights of yet another killer—this time for hire. Can't the girl catch a break?


This book is the equivalent of beige. It reads like the author couldn't be bothered. Everything is drab, dull and the farthest from interesting and intriguing as possible. You know, beige.
The heroine seemed to merely be going through the motions, the hero was more-or-less a lump (I have no idea what he looked like, probably in order for the reader to imagine what they wanted—as you can do with an unidentifiable lump), the suspense seemed rehashed and unoriginal...

Beige.

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