Dangerous Games

Rating:
Summary: A Top-Notch Mystery !
Review: I began reading this novel on a Friday afternoon, and finished it by the wee hours of Saturday morning, that's how intriguing this tale is! This is the second book I've read by Michael Prescott, and I absolutely loved this one. The first story I read was "In Dark Places", and I didn't really care too much for that book.

Special Agent Tess McCallum is pulled from her Denver office into the LA branch of the FBI to help solve a series of kidnapping/murders by a perpetrator dubbed the "Rain Man", who abducts women for ransom, and then abandons them to die in the LA storm drain system. As she investigates information left on the "tip line", she is led to the home of a wealthy Bel Air woman by the name of Madeleine Grant. Ms. Grant is convinced that the "Rain Man" is none other than a former police officer who had stalked , and threatened her life a little over a year ago. However, Madeleine had difficulty persuading the police to believe that her life was in danger, and they nearly ignore her current fears of becoming a target once again. Abby Sinclair, a free-lance security consultant is called upon by Madeleine to protect her, and to help apprehend the perpetrator.
As Tess and Abby team up in solving the murders of Angela Morris and Paula Weissman, their trust for each other is tested. Especially when Tess discovers the reason that the police refuse to take Madeleine Grant's pleas for help seriously.
I found the characters of Abby and Tess interesting and delightful. Each character in this tale is well developed and believable. The story line pulled me in and held me until the very last page. This story left me hungry for another Prescott tale!

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've read all of Michael Prescott's novels and loved them all except this one. DANGEROUS GAMES was a major disappointment.
I hate having to admit it, but I found it so boring that I couldn't even finish it.

Hopefully his next one will be better.



Rating:
Summary: Fantastic
Review: Unceasingly suspensful, amazing character development, fun, exciting, scary...this book has it all. Like my favorite Michael Prescott novels--The Shadow Hunter, Stealing Faces, and Mortal Pursuit (written under his pen name). Dangerous Games does not disappoint. I hope that Mr. Prescott will include Tess and Abby in future novels.

Rating:
Summary: fabulous psychological suspense thriller
Review: While most people take shelter from torrential rain, the assailant rejoices when storms hit Los Angeles. This unknown culprit has used the heavy rains as a tool in dangerous ransom plots. He abducts a victim, incarcerates them in the vast sewage system beneath the city, and if not paid leaves them to die. The media dubs this vicious murderer the Rain Man as the city is gripped by the gloomy storm clouds he has caused.

As the forecast calls for new storms, the FBI assigns Agent Tess McCallum (see NEXT VICTIM) to stop the killer before he kills again. Madeline Grant reaches Tess by calling the hot line set up to get tips on Rain Man. She insists that he is an obsessed stalker named William Kolb. Madeline sends private investigator Abby Sinclair (see THE SHADOW HUNTER) whose job is to stalk stalkers to meet Tess. Though both are lone rangers, Tess and Abby reluctantly team up as the forecast calls for stormy weather and the Rain Man has his next victim kidnapped.

DANGEROUS GAMES is a fabulous psychological suspense thriller that starts at a high frenzy of excitement and action, turns even more tense, and climaxes with a fantastic confrontation. The pairing of two stars from Michael Prescott books is fun to follow as both females have so much alpha testosterone it is amazing that they don't kill each other before they take on the Rain Man, a cunning deadly killer playing cat and mouse with his opponents under city inside his favorite local, the drainage system. Readers will appreciate this powerful tale that will send the audience seeking previous solo appearances from this dynamic distaff duet.

Harriet Klausner