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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: This was my first book by Tami Hoag, but I heard she was a great author so I decided to give it a shot. Having read James Patterson, I am very much into cop vs serial killer murders with suspense. Unfortunately, this book disappointed me. The book seemed to be very dry for the first few hundred pages, and the suspense level never really got that high. The plot just seemed to go round and around who might have done it, never zooming in for sure on any one person. So, a lot of doors were opened in the search for suspects, but not everything was wrapped up in the end. The characters would ponder a certain lead but they didn't follow up on everything that seemed questionable. The characters themselves weren't, in my opinion, that deep or complex. Actually, I didn't really like either of the two "good guys." Kovac got on my nerves with his cold-heartedness and his "lonely me" fixation. I disliked Liska and Savard's "nobody can touch me" feelings. THe characters just seemed to be too extreme. Lastly, there was a sideplot going on about an assault that had nothing to do with the actual plot. I kept waiting for them to be somehow connected, but they never did. Hoag has great talent as a writer, but I just didn't feel the suspense. The only reason I finished the book as fast as I did was because I wanted to start on another book I'd just bought by a favorite author of mine. If the plot was just made more suspenseful or the characters had added depth, I think this book would've been great. So, although this was a good book, I would recommend any of James Patterson's books in place of this for suspense.
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Summary: ...a worthwhile read...
Review: When I was first introduced to Tami Hoag's novels, I honestly didn't know what to expect. I mistakenly believed that they were of the romance genre, but once I started reading her many novels, I realized just how wrong I was to have made that assumption. Dust To Dust, her newest effort, reads like a sandstorm with more twists than a country back road. She brings back familiar favorites, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, and the dynamics are as wonderful as ever. The book is brimming with diverse characters who have more than their fair share of deep dark secrets that they wish to keep hidden. Tami Hoag is able to deliver a novel that deals with what some may see as a controversial issue, the death of a gay cop, without becoming mired in sterotypes; but that is just the beginning as Hoag expertly weaves this seemingly cut and dried case of suicide into something much deeper and darker than anyone could have possibly imagined. If you want a novel that will keep you guessing from beginning to end, this is definitely a worthwhile read.
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Summary: On the Hunt for a Cop Killer
Review: When Minneapolis cops Sam Kovak and his partner Nikki Liska get called to a crime scene where the victim is found hanging naked in his bedroom, the nightmare begins. The victim is Internal affairs cop Andy Fallon, son of a hero cop who used to be Sam's mentor. There are those that say suicide, but Sam isn't buying it Lines are quickly drawn in the department. Some wonder if Andy was working a case against cops that got him killed, others think he was a kinky homosexual who was out for an autoerotic kick and accidentally killed himself. But accident, murder or suicide, Kovak and Liska want to know. However it appears they are alone in their quest for that knowledge. And curiously enough, I.A. doesn't seem to want to know either. Everyone wants the case to just go away, but our heroes persevere and the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to a killer who is willing to kill again to stop them. Tami Hoag has never disappointed me and DUST TO DUST is one of her best. She's always spot on with her characters, making you feel what they feel, care what they care about and she's a master at suspense, but then everybody knows that, don't they? Sara "Babe" Hackett, Girlfriend from the Darkside
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Summary: TAMI HOAG CAN WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL!
Review: You would be shocked to know that Tami Hoag used to write romance novels only, not suspense. Later, in about 1995, Tami did a transaction from romance novels to suspense novels, and boy does she write good ones. Dust to Dust is kind of a sequel/ follow up to Ashes to Ashes that came out in March 1999 and is now in paperback. I enjoyed Ashes to Ashes a lot. On August 1, I ran out to the store and bought Dust to Dust and was hooked to reading it on the first day. This book had great characters, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska from Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust was another success by Mrs. Hoag that left you hooked to the novel page by page. Dust to Dust had a very surprising ending, which left me in shock. It seems like all the authors surprise me in the end. A gay cop, Andy Fallon, is killed after hanging himself in his own house, which is believed as suicide, but it is not and the story leads to his father, to rich and famous Ace Wyatt, cops in the Minneapolis Police Department, and even to the chief of the Internal Affairs. You could trust no one in this novel at anytime because everyone had a motive leading from prejudice against gays to a disturbing case twenty years that involved Andy Fallon's father, Mike. If you are a fan of Iris Johansen, Erica Spindler, and Wendy Corsi Staub then Tami Hoag is the one for you and Dust to Dust tops the list of her best novels.
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