Too Close to Home The Forensic Files Book 1 eBook Tressa Messenger
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When the body of a beautiful and popular senior head cheerleader, Melissa Cooley, is found brutally stabbed to death at the local high school it sends the small coastal community in North Carolina into a frenzy.
To make matters worse…another body is found.
A slacker boy by the name of Ronald Marks is found hanging from the field goal post on the football field only a day later. Pamlico County native Detective Carma Jones and her partner Harold Green set out on a search for this ruthless assailant who is wrecking havoc in a normally peaceful community.
No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.
The twists and turns along the way lead them in a direction Carma would’ve never guessed. One filled with deep secrets that were meant to stay buried…
Too Close to Home The Forensic Files Book 1 eBook Tressa Messenger
They just don't seem to write decent detective books any more, or I just can't find them.I know that an average of less than 33% of murders never get solved & it's easy to understand if this book shows even a bit of real life...
She didn't even bother to finish reading the diary until all was over with? With 2 dead teenagers!
I know there are a lot of bad pathetic cops out there, I was hoping to read about a smart cop, the kind who goes the extra inch, not one who's more worried about the guy she's been sleeping with, who also was sleeping with the 17 year old dead girl.
I don't understand why "The Forensic Files" is part of this book's title! There wasn't much forensics done & the police/detective work was shabby at best.
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Too Close to Home The Forensic Files Book 1 eBook Tressa Messenger Reviews
Tressa Messenger does not like to limit or categorize herself by a single genre. She shifts from YA to romance to mystery / thriller without hiding behind the “this pen name is for THIS genre” conceit other authors sometimes choose to use when they branch out.
It was suggested to me that “Too Close to Home” would be a good choice to introduce myself to the workings of Ms. Messenger's minds, as my favorite genre is murder mystery/suspense/thriller. In this book, set in coastal North Carolina, Detective Carma Jones must deal with the murder of a high school cheerleader – and a subsequent second corpse found hanging from the goalposts on the football field. The prime suspect appears to be the son of one of the town's power brokers – except murder mystery fans KNOW better than to assume the prime suspect turns out to be the murderer …
I wouldn't call this novel perfect – Ms. Messenger chooses to write in the 3rd person present tense, which I find acceptable for scripts but can be annoying in novels. (Other readers may not care about this detail, so take it for what it is worth.) I felt a couple of the plot twists were telegraphed, and not as surprising to me as I (and the author) had hoped. This, however, may be due to the number of murder mysteries that I've read in the past 12 or so years.
Still, I certainly enjoyed the book, and am looking forward to the sequel. (There WILL be a sequel; the book does end with a cliffhanger – NOT one directly tied to the plot of this book, which I HATE when it's not resolved, but more like a sneak-peek at the prologue for the next book embedded within the text of the first.)
RATING 4 stars.
There was basically nothing I liked about this book. The writing level wouldn't make a passing grade in any high school class even though the author claims she creates wonderful works of art. She must never do any research, not even watch TV, to try to describe a crime scene investigation. The "All American Girl" cheerleader was a foul-mouthed slut, and the detective was a narcissistic moron. The conduct of the detectives was certainly not professional. What kind of detective sticks evidence down her pants to hide it so she won't have to log it into evidence? I tried to read the book, but all of the grammatical errors and switching tenses three or more times in a single paragraph was more than I could endure. It wasn't interesting enough to hold my attention. The author might do better at writing teenage romance that doesn't necessarily need much of a plot. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
This book was so bad, I couldn't wait to finish it. Completely unrealistic behavior for any police officer, let alone a detective. Carma steals potential evidence from a victim's bedroom. She leaps to conclusions never first looking for facts or proof. The dialogue is much too stilted to be coming from teenagers. The authority figures in the story - the sheriff, the school principal - are more like bullies than leaders. The parents of the teenage victims are clueless. One of her conclusions ends with the suicide of a fellow police officer - due in part to her carelessness. Yet the daughter of the officer treats her like they are the best of friends. The whole story is just too improbable. Regret that I had to give it one star to submit the review.
The book needed a proof reader in the first place. I thought that was what an editor does!! It wasn't just one page, it was many. Sadly the book held no suspense, nothing to keep me wanting to turn each page to get to the climatic ending. I kept reading to see if maybe I was being too harsh..........I wasn't. Not sure if this is the author's first book but maybe she needs a more established author like Jeffrey Deaver, or Tami Hoag to be a mentor to show her where she could step up the angst and anticipation of the mystery itself. The book was sweet, not what one wants in a good mystery. I'm glad I didn't pay for it..
Let me start by saying that I recognize that writing a book is a difficult undertaking, and my hat is off to Ms. Messenger for making the effort. Unfortunately, her "Too Close to Home" falls way short of the mark in almost every respect. The protagonist, Carma Jones, must be the most incompetent detective in the history of fiction, as she and her partner seem to throw proper investigative procedure and common sense to the wind at every turn. The writing is amateurish throughout, and the dialogue is the most stilted and unnatural-sounding I can recall reading. Adding to these problems, Ms. Messenger occasionally slips from past tense to present and back again, which is not only ungrammatical but jarring, and sometimes indulges in "head hopping" (sharing the inner thoughts of more than one character within a scene), which I consider unpardonable. The storyline, revolving around the deaths of two teenagers in a small, Southern community, holds some promise, but it would take a writer with more skill than Ms. Messenger possesses to really bring it to life.
They just don't seem to write decent detective books any more, or I just can't find them.
I know that an average of less than 33% of murders never get solved & it's easy to understand if this book shows even a bit of real life...
She didn't even bother to finish reading the diary until all was over with? With 2 dead teenagers!
I know there are a lot of bad pathetic cops out there, I was hoping to read about a smart cop, the kind who goes the extra inch, not one who's more worried about the guy she's been sleeping with, who also was sleeping with the 17 year old dead girl.
I don't understand why "The Forensic Files" is part of this book's title! There wasn't much forensics done & the police/detective work was shabby at best.
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