Review True Shot by Joyce Lamb
Special FBI operative Samantha Trudeau’s unique psychic abilities help her catch the most elusive criminals. They also put her in the path of a sadistic adversary when she discovers she’s actually working for a rogue cell-and into the confidence of a handsome journalist with his own potentially dangerous secrets.
I was blown away by True Shot. A truly tortured heroine, by something she can’t escape, and everytime she does help it just makes her sicker, and makes the restless sprits come to her faster and with more frequency. Sort of like a reverse repeller. The more she used her power the more the spirits were attracted to her and the more compelled she was to help, the more she lived their nightmares and the more chances she took to solve their mysteries. Her boss, Mac, knows how much stress this puts on her and he wants to help. You can see that, in addition to being wildly attracted to her, he wants to protect her from herself, but he doesn’t realize that he has to let her be herself, he has to let her be helpful to help these ghosts other wise she would smother under the weight of her own guilt and their presence.
So when Mac benches Samantha, she quits and goes out on her own to solve the murders that come to her in the form of the ghosts that find their way to her. When they both end up meeting in Mac’s home town as a murder which at first presents itself as a suicide makes it clear that something much larger and much sinister is at work, then another ghost, the ghost of a girl long dead makes her appearance it ties Mac and Samantha together in two mysteries that end up ripping your heart out while you can’t stop reading this achingly painful story.
True Shot is a shot to the heart, it is the best of the murder mystery and its a fantastic novel, it strikes right to the heart of what is so scary in our world, children getting hurt and children doing the hurting. Those two ideas more than any other make us as people shudder with Horror and Ms. Lamb is able to mix both of them in this novel without skipping a beat. Its scarily perfect.
Overall Rating: B
