Certain Prey
by John Sanford

    I tried this series quite a long time ago and didn't find it to my liking, mostly because at that time I was a romance novel fanatic. I guess with real life and my age, realism hit and death and dismemberment became easier to believe than death-do-you-part love! I enjoy books about strong women as readers of this blog know, but the two villains of this piece, both women, are so incredibly scary. Right from the very beginning we know that Carmel Loan has hired a hit person to kill the wife of a man she is enamored of. What we soon find out is what lengths she will go to to keep the truth covered up. The assassin she has hired through a mediator turns out to be female and when the two twisted minds start scheming, all other characters should beware. If you are on their radar you haven't got a chance. Lucas Davenport, however; he seems to have quite the nose for bad guys, or girls, as the case is here. Those three characters played a great game of cat and mouse through the 339 pages of such an interesting mystery. I really enjoyed it.