Blindzider's Reviews > Scene of the Crime

For a first book this was pretty darn good. It's a little formulaic but you can't help but be vested into the mystery and I thought I had almost everything figured out but there's still a couple twists I didn't see coming. A private investigator is hired to find a missing girl but uncovers some hidden secrets and it doesn't take long for you to follow along with Jack as he hunts for clues. Everything is narrated by him in captions so you really get to understand not only the investigation but his motivations and feelings. There's also a slow reveal of some events in his background which ties to other people in the story.

There isn't much here that's really new, at this point in time (the story is over 15 years old now) but it's so well done and you can see the beginnings of both Brubaker, Lark and Phillips' careers. It's worth a read, check it out.