Krishna
Cole is a homicide detective in NYPD and Megan Flynn is in love with him. When he is with her, the phone rings and he is called to investigate a homicide. Megan panics as she hears the address because it is her brother’s building! She follows after he is gone, even though he asked her to stay put and realizes that her brother was not the victim but the killer.
She believes in her brother’s innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence against him. She goes to visit him at Walla Walla facility every week. When Sean appears to give up on the appeals for bail after several were rejected, she is incredulous.
Even her lawyer seems convinced of Sean’s guilt so Megan decides to find the real killer before it is too late. By herself.
Meanwhile Devaney lives with her aunt in a trailer park and has friendship with a younger girl called Devany. When her dog runs out of the trailer (and she is scared her aunt, who had gone out, will give her hell for it) she follows. Dev stumbles into a trailer with a dead body and she sees that the TV was on. First she saw the body on the TV before realizing that it was simply displaying what is in the room. She called Megan in a panic – Megan was her social work caretaker and then the police arrive. Cole comes as well.
We realize that Cole and Megan have not been seeing eye to eye after Sean’s arrest. Cole finally catches Megan in her workplace (which is a coffee shop) and sees her having a talk with Nate, an old friend of Sean.
Meanwhile another of Sean’s friends has been harassing her.
Finally Cole decides to show Megan the police files confidentially. (Yes, you are not imagining it; the story does suck as much as it is described above).
He learns the identity of the latest victim and leaves but Devney also calls her to say that she had seen the victim.
We then see the killer hanging around hidden in the woods around the trailer park and we understand that he knows Megan well.
The story keeps going in circles. Even though Cole is a great cop he keeps slipping up and giving Megan confidential information and risking his career. She is upset that he is not ‘doing more to release Sean’ as she believes that the victims of the serial killer and Sean’s girlfriend who was murdered have a lot in common. They keep starting to play around and getting interrupted just before the consummation.
Now Megan has the suave Nate all kindness and help and Jimmy who is a rotten man – both ex friends of Sean. You can see the “twist” coming from ten miles away.
And all the people behave like idiots – Dev for instance goes out to a party violating her curfew since she is ‘going out of her mind in the trailer’ and her aunt has gone out to work. In addition, her dangerous mom is getting out from prison and may come get her. When things go wrong in the party, she whines for Megan to come get her – Nate now has to give a ride to Megan since she is unable to come on her own.
And on top of all, she gives sass to Megan when she enquires why she went to the party when there was curfew.
Not a good ‘out of control’ but a bad ‘out of control’ if you know what I mean. It seems that the entire community, hero included, have no sense of judgement
The story continues. It is interesting that Megan in a dogged and determined way tries to see all ways in which she can investigate but she seems to offend everyone she goes to for help. You don’t ask for favours by insulting and shouting at the people you want on your side. But this being that kind of a story, they respond weirdly but positively.
After offending the boyfriend of the murdered girl Evangeline and establishing that she and Bianca, the latest victim are together, she then goes to the head of Club One who is not friendly. Knowing that she is afraid of her sister being harmed by the killer whom she knows, Jack, a security guard and Cole both promise protection outside of the police (where the killer has agents infiltrated)
It is a romantic thriller with the romantic steamy part of it amped way up and the thriller part of it way down. In fact they all make weird assumptions and spend arguing constantly with each other. The detectives are on the wrong track and resent private investigations on angles they have missed.
There is no twist in the story in spite of the fact that the author thinks there is. It is so plainly done that you can see it coming from a different galaxy if you wanted.
Some scenes are good, especially the killer’s background story – when I say ‘good’ it is good relative to the stupid portions of the story.
It is mildly entertaining, but if you totally suspend your intellect and just read, suppressing irritation at everyone’s irrational behaviour, I guess it is just OK.
Even the sex Magan and Cole have is near an open window where the killer (who is not even in the house) can see every detail and fly into a rage. Go figure.
4/10
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