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| Title | : | Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie #1) |
| Author | : | Victoria Selman |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 319 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2019 by Thomas & Mercer |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller |
Victoria Selman
Kindle Edition | Pages: 319 pages Rating: 3.69 | 10864 Users | 679 Reviews
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Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.
When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?
Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.
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| Original Title: | Blood for Blood ASIN B07CKXV7R6 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ziba MacKenzie #1 |
| Literary Awards: | CWA Debut Dagger Nominee for the CWA Debut Dagger Award (0) |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 10864 Users | 679 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie #1)
This was my Amazon First Read pick for January. It's not a book I'd recommend, and it's not a series I'll follow. Some things that bothered me include:Ziba is an annoying character who tries too hard to be a badass. She has a habit of calling people ridiculous derogatory names, constantly, such as "moon chicken" and "DI Dipstick." She also uses her personal lingo for common things, such as "lifer juice" instead of coffee. And a man's hands are "dick grabbers." I swear, she never just talks likeThis was my selection from the monthly Kindle books available to Prime members of Amazon. I usually don't make it through any of the books I choose, so this was a step forward. The young woman profiler Ziba had appeal, so I stuck with the story as it went from a devastating train crash into a Scotland Yard campaign to catch a serial killer, not one of my favorite topics.
Ziba MacKenzie is a criminal profiler who consults with Scotland Yard. On her way to dinner one night, the train shes riding collides with a derailed tanker car, killing more than a dozen and wounding several hundred. Though injured herself, Ziba comforts a dying woman who with her last breath whispers an enigmatic confession: He did it. Who did it? What did he do? And why? are the questions Ziba asks herself.But these questions get pushed to the side as Scotland Yard requests her services to
This book left me very torn. A dichotomy of a book. I loved the villain, I hated the heroine. I thought the writing was excellent but detested the author's ham fisted attempts to be clever. I thought the plot was good, but the ending was relatively weak.Let me explain why I hated the heroine, which also references the annoying attempts at cleverness and the watery ending. Ziba MacKenzie is an ex-Special Forces operative turned freelance profiler. She is an emotional wreck and virtual recluse
I enjoyed this one at the beginning and was quite excited about half way through and then it started to lose momentum.I felt that it could have been more psychological than it was, I was hoping that I was going to experience being thrilled, but I ended wading through it.I do have the other 2 to read and I am hoping for more.I did give it 3.5 stars as I was impressed with the profiling research.
1.5 Stars- Blood for Blood by Victoria Selman was a Kindle first selection that I put off reading for months because I was unsure from the reviews whether it was worth reading. After reading it I can tell you it is not. Selman is a first time, Oxford educated author whose work does not measure up to the works of other English authors profiled on Amazon.com for a variety of reasons. First, the author tries too hard to make her protagonist, Ziba Mackenzie, a criminal profiler for Scotland Yard,
It's rare that a single side-character causes me to cut a book rating in half, but here we are. One of these days I'm going to read a book with a strong, independent female lead. 2018 wasn't a good year for me and such a book, but I entered 2019 ever hopeful. One might be fooled into thinking that this is one. But no. What we have instead is a woman still broken from the death of her husband. Which is fine. Could be great, even. It's a great opportunity to show her inner-strength as she comes to
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