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Today I bring you a review of the third book I have read for the Four Nations Readathon. If you don’t know what it is, check out their Instagram account to learn more. Yet another book I absolutely loved.
“Wild Justice“, written by Linda Hebert Todd, is a mystery novel, published on April 4th 2016 by Bald Cypress Publishing.
This book was gifted to me by my dear auntie Debra, and I’m so glad she send it to me because otherwise I may have not met this brilliant book and author.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Blurb
He’s the police chief’s son. Her best friend is his girlfriend. He killed her family.
“Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it hurts too much to wait.
Keeley Chesson decides to give the Lord some assistance. She knows who the killer is, but can’t go to the police because of his connections to law enforcement.
She vows to secure justice for her loved ones on her own.
Wild Justice is a journey of revenge and redemption through the rivers and bayous of south Louisiana.
Purchase Link: Amazon
About the Author
Linda Hebert Todd writes fiction and poetry, and since she enjoys reading mysteries, much of her fiction is about mayhem and murder. Nearly all her fiction is set in the bayou country of south Louisiana, where she came of age swimming in the river and listening to tales of LaFitte the Pirate and the loup-garou.
Linda has a short story in Journeys: Bayou Writers Group Anthology Volume 1 (Bayou Writers Group, 2014). Several of her short stories and poems have won prizes in various contests, and have appeared in the Jambalaya Writers’ Conference anthologies.
She has one novel completed—Wild Justice, a crime story with a revenge theme, and has started another one set in Labrador and Louisiana.
Linda is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime on the national level. She is a charter member of the Bayou Writers Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a member of Writer’s League of Texas based in Austin. She is past Secretary of Bayou Writers Group and is currently serving on the board as Member-at-Large.
Social Media Link: Website
My Review
The first time I learn something about this book besides that it was set in Louisiana, was when I read the synopsis before diving into the story. Still, even with having read the synopsis, I had no idea what I was going to find in terms of the plotting. How everything would develop. How the things that the synopsis said, were going to happen.
I was captivated from the first chapter. The brilliant story telling, the suspense in each scene, each question and each revelation. It was a while ride, and I loved ever single second of reading this novel.
First, the characters. The very first moment of introduction of the characters and realizing some of their reasons for acting that way, was immediately a positive point. I loved the way the characters interacted with each other, the way their true reasons for the events and the acts and responses they had, kept being revealed as we kept reading.
Secondly, there is this amazing feeling about being transported to a moment in time and space. To truly submerge into the story and follow the characters life, peeling the pages and letters go of my control and just go for a ride. That’s what reading this book felt like. I couldn’t stop reading because I just wanted to see what was going to happen next.
The suspense lasted until the very last page. It kept me going and going, wondering what would happen, what new information I was going to learn, when were the characters find out the truth. That was the perfect element for a mystery, crime and suspense novel.
A book about Revenge and Redemption. A book with secrets. A book that has fantastic characters, good guys and bad guys. And a book I full heartily recommend if you want to go on a journey that will make you excited and definitely intriguing by each question, each theory, each surprising moments. It will all be worth wild.
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Jess
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