3.5⭐
Genre ~ crime thriller
Series ~ Emerald City, #1
Setting ~ Seattle, Washington
Publication date ~ book ~ June 8, 2017, audio ~ April 22, 2019
Est Page Count ~ 306 (33 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 6 hours 39 minutes
Narrators ~ Marcio Catalano, Veronica Pace
POV ~ mostly dual 3rd, but a couple parts from other characters
Featuring ~ police procedural, murders, serial killer copy cat
My review:
Sergeant Wade McKinnon caught notorious serial killer Michael Rhodes and watched him be executed a year ago. But now murders are happening again that leads Wade on the hunt for a possible copy cat killer.
Elle is the wife of Brian, who has received a brain cell transplant. He’s starting to act weird and she suspects cheating, because of course. But perhaps there is something more sinister going on? Well, yes, yes of course, it is a crime thriller after all.
I think the blurb gives a little too much away for this one, however, unless I nodded off and was already made aware, I was totally shocked about one of the twists. I thought the plot had some unique qualities with the whole brain cell transplant.
Overall, it was fast paced with pretty solid police work.
Series notes:
The start of a 4 book series that will follow the same law enforcement characters we have met. I’d probably continue on as time allows.
Narration notes:
Duet narration! 🙌🥳
Purchase link: https://amzn.to/4aIF0am
Add to your never ending TBR ~ goodreads
I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’ve read it.
Book blurb:
Sergeant Wade McKinnon knows who killed Samantha the moment he arrives at her crime scene. Problem is, he watched her killer die a year ago.
A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes. Other similar killings happen around Seattle, and Wade seems to be the only person still alive who knows enough about Michael Rhodes’s murders to be able to replicate them. When evidence found at one of the crime scenes points to Wade as the killer, he races to find the real culprit before it’s too late to clear his own name.
Elle is overjoyed when her husband, Brian, receives a lifesaving organ transplant. Their lives seem to return to normal, but Elle notices a disturbing change in Brian’s behavior. When Elle learns that her husband’s organ donor was Michael Rhodes, she fears that Brian now has the mind of a serial killer.
The Recipient is a chilling crime thriller mixed with domestic suspense that will leave you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
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