{"id":3969,"date":"2015-02-04T07:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:07:47","slug":"rage-against-the-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"****Rage Against the Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Becky Masterman<\/a>, read by Judy Kaye — Delighted to find this first-time mystery-thriller, which appeared on seven<\/em> \u201cbest of\u201d lists for 2013. At first, I thought, \u201cOh no, not another story about long-haul truckers and their women victims,\u201d but the book soon took a sharp turn away from that tired track, and we discover the would-be victim is a retired FBI agent with certain skills.<\/p>\n

The agent is Brigid Quinn, asked informally to help put to rest an old case\u2014the murder of her young trainee by the \u201cRoute 66 killer.\u201d A man has confessed to this string of murders and told authorities where to find the agent\u2019s body. But the FBI agent in charge of the case doubts the confession and persuades Quinn to doubt it, too. Meanwhile, the real killer is out there . . . and no one but the two of them appears to care whether he\u2019s caught.<\/p>\n

The book uses its Tucson setting to advantage, and Quinn shines hard as a diamond in the unrelenting Arizona light. Her first-person narrative is \u201cchilling, smart, funny, and what a voice she has,\u201d said Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl<\/em>. The narration was perfect. Cheers to both Masterman and Kaye. Looking forward to reading the second book in the series, out now!
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