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Blood Moon/Featuring Psychological Profile Investigator Robert Payne

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Up front, as a lifelong resident of the Cedar Rapids area, I have a predilection for the books by Ed Gorman as I enjoy reading about places I encounter on a regular basis. However, in this case that tendency could not overcome the difficulties that I had reading the book. The criminal is a really bad one and his killings are among the cruelest. In the last part of the book, I simply could not read large sections at a time. Ordinarily when I get towards the end I move through to completion but the events were so gross that I could not read much more than 20 pages at a sitting.

Former F. B. I. agent and profiler Robert Payne is an interesting character but he lacks some skills as a field agent, walking into more than one trap. The action is all in a small Iowa town that was once a close-knit community but now is a bedroom town where many of the people commute to a large city and really do not have the deep community roots that people used to have.

The action is gross and very disturbing, young girls are tortured and very brutally murdered by the two-legged beast that Robert Payne is stalking. With all of my reading of history, I am hardened to such stuff, but even I was overwhelmed at times.

Ed Gorman strikes again with yet another PI series that is clever, witty and this time absolutely terrifying ... Blood Moon has a half dozen twists and turns that keep the reader wondering ... nervously.

There's a psycho on the loose ... or is he ... or is he a she?

He's done time, we know that from a prison journal that will scare the hell out of us ... and what the author does with this serial killer exceeds terror ... throw in evangelist and two of his too devoted flock and a few murders, a kidnapping and, well ... (no spoilers) a few hundred of something that gives us all the creeps and the reader races through to the end to see how it all goes down ...

We should all READ, amici ... all of us ... as often as our lives permit ... and when the reads are this good, reading comes easy. READ, amici ... READ