Blind Justice
Kelsy GeorgeRomantic suspense
Available from Cerridwen Press
ISBN: 1-4199-0554-6
March 2006
| A serial killer, known as the Preacher for his habit of using the names of two apostles as his aliases, poses as a man of god who dates women to gain their trust before he tortures them to death before allowing them to die. The police would have nothing to go on if not for the information provided to them by blind psychic, Norrie Benedict. She is able to do a reading at the crime scene during which she can see what the victim saw, hear what the victim heard and feel everything they felt just prior to death by torture. The readings leave her too weak to walk by herself and very ill, needing several days of sleep to recover. The police task force is led by Norrie’s fantasy man, Lieutenant Dylan Jones, Homicide Division and his team. Dylan is seconded by Senior Detective Sergeant Brandon Hawke and his partner Detective Sergeant Martin Jamison who’d been working a related case in another precinct. Senior Detective Sergeant Brandon Hawke didn’t believe in psychic abilities. He scoffed at Norrie’s readings believing she made it up to scam the detectives. She’d worked with Dylan for enough years that he was a believer so she was part of the task force. Norrie believed she was in love with Dylan for some time now and suddenly he seemed to be showing an interest in her. They could communicate telepathically. The Preacher is able to communicate telepathically with Norrie also. He taunts and threatens her at the crime scenes. She feels him nearby while they are in task force meetings. Dylan doesn’t see anyone so he doesn’t believe her that the Preacher is there. How could he doubt her on this when she has never been wrong before in all this time?
Blind Justice is so well written that even the very bizarre plot twists are totally believable. The characters are lovable and very human. Such as in the case of Dylan’s struggle to decide if what he feels for Norrie is love. He is very protective of her, tender and caring after a reading yet could destroy her esteem with his bluntness. He could make her doubt herself with one off hand comment about the way she looked or by his total withdrawal and absorption in the case in almost the same breath as being loving. I loved the way Hawke’s character evolved from scoffing at Norrie and treating her with cold sarcasm to falling in love with her and learning to accept on faith those things about her which he could not logically explain. The Preacher’s identity is a surprise but makes perfect sense. We don’t figure it out until they do, after it is too late. It is exciting and has a happily ever after ending, even though it wasn’t the one I expected . You’ll want this book for your keeper shelf. I know you will enjoy it as much as I did. This one is a must read.
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Reviewer: Karen H. |
