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book_concierge's review
2.0
This is an adequate thriller. On the plus side - I got really caught up in the plot. On the minus side - loose ends, a stupid female prosecutor, and an unnecessary love interest.
debs4jc's review
2.0
Federal prosectuer Melanie Martinez becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a prominent tabloid journalist. The journalist was murdered in an especially brutal way, and as Melanie investigates she begins to suspect that she is being stalked herself. She needs to solve the case fast, but there are too many suspects. And her relationship with FBI agent Dan O'Reilly is a constant distraction.[return]This was a fair suspense story, but the dialogue seemed kind of stilted and the characters one dimensional. Good for a light read but not much more.
ncrabb's review
4.0
Suzanne Shepard spent her working life revealing dirty little secrets about others on television as a high-profile reporter. When New York City cops get an anonymous call, the caller directs them to a ravine that reveals the ghastliest secret of all. Suzanne Shepard is dead, and someone has sliced and diced her in brutal ways, carving the word “bitch” on her stomach. And that doesn’t include the sexual assault stuff she endured.
FBI Special Agent Dan O’Reilly gets the nod to investigate the murder, and he calls his girlfriend, federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas, who reluctantly agrees to accompany him to the crime scene. A representative from the local district attorney’s office had already been there and fled vomiting because of the brutality of the murder.
Because Shepard was in the enemy-making business, Melanie has a list of suspects longer than a polygamist’s clothesline to plow through. Finding Shepard’s killer won’t be easy; normally Vargas can narrow suspect lists down quickly. But not so this time. Some of the people on the list trouble Vargas. One suspect is the father of a young and promising intern in Vargas’s office. He’s a mayoral candidate, and he and his assistant are extremely hostile to Vargas.
Then the emails start pinging into Melanie’s box. The writer references Melanie’s body, commending her for it and yearning to do unthinkable things to it. More troubling still is the fact that the writer has specific information about the Shepard murder that police never released to the media.
It’s a race against time and a stalker as the killer wounds one suspect, and another one dies near the end of the book. Melanie could find herself among the dead if she can’t find a solution.
I chose this as one of my early-morning walk books. I need a title whose plot keeps me so involved I can’t fixate on how much farther I must walk. Something that provides the occasional adrenaline shot to the ticker is a must, and this book fills that bill nicely.
FBI Special Agent Dan O’Reilly gets the nod to investigate the murder, and he calls his girlfriend, federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas, who reluctantly agrees to accompany him to the crime scene. A representative from the local district attorney’s office had already been there and fled vomiting because of the brutality of the murder.
Because Shepard was in the enemy-making business, Melanie has a list of suspects longer than a polygamist’s clothesline to plow through. Finding Shepard’s killer won’t be easy; normally Vargas can narrow suspect lists down quickly. But not so this time. Some of the people on the list trouble Vargas. One suspect is the father of a young and promising intern in Vargas’s office. He’s a mayoral candidate, and he and his assistant are extremely hostile to Vargas.
Then the emails start pinging into Melanie’s box. The writer references Melanie’s body, commending her for it and yearning to do unthinkable things to it. More troubling still is the fact that the writer has specific information about the Shepard murder that police never released to the media.
It’s a race against time and a stalker as the killer wounds one suspect, and another one dies near the end of the book. Melanie could find herself among the dead if she can’t find a solution.
I chose this as one of my early-morning walk books. I need a title whose plot keeps me so involved I can’t fixate on how much farther I must walk. Something that provides the occasional adrenaline shot to the ticker is a must, and this book fills that bill nicely.
literaryfeline's review
3.0
http://www.literaryfeline.com/2011/09/review-cover-up-by-michele-martinez.html
bookbitch's review
Melanie Vargas, federal prosecutor in NYC, returns in this latest thriller from the oh-so-talented Martinez. While dining out with her boyfriend, hunky FBI agent Dan O'Reilly, she is dragged along to the scene of a murder when he is paged to respond. Vargas had been laying low, taking low profile cases in order to recover from some rough cases and spend more time with her daughter. But being that she is in the right place at the right time - the murder scene of a celebrity, tabloid TV reporter Suzanne Shephard, Vargas realizes that this is an assignment she can't walk away from. Shephard had plenty of enemies, and law enforcement has their work cut out for them to try and find the murderer. Terrific pacing in this legal thriller along with some hot romance makes this another fast, fun read from this author, who has turned into one of my favorites.
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