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Pieces of Sand

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This book-reviewing thing is getting more, and more difficult. Not because the reading is hard to do....that is a pleasure...but how does one put into words just how great, and wonderful a book is? Words just seem so insignificant after reading something as riveting as PIECES OF SAND. But somehow I will try, as I want everyone to know about this book.

When Mr. Savoie asked me if I would like to read a book he had written about a "seriously deranged serial killer", I laughed and told him that I had always felt any serial killer would be considered deranged. Little did I know!

I do have one warning; it would be to your advantage to stay away from South Seventh Street, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Especially if you are a young business man who happens to carry a brief case. It seems that such young men are disappearing. Disappearing, literally right in front of people's eyes. And there are no clues as to where they are going, or what is happening to them. But whatever is happening to them cannot be good.

In South Florida, Sheriff's Detective Charley Banyon has set up a special investigative unit that is making catching criminals a lot easier. He has four first year rookies to train in this new approach to policing, and they aren't so sure that they like the idea.

A short time earlier Charley had met a wonderful woman. He had been in a boat on Lake Okeechobee, when a violent storm suddenly came up. June Ibson's kids found him on the shore of the lake. He was more dead than alive. After Charley recovered from his wounds, he wanted to thank the children for saving his life. It was then that he met their mother, June. Maybe it wasn't love at first sight, but it was close enough for Charley and June.

Soon after Charley and June met, June received a phone call from her father in Philadelphia saying that her mother was dying, and that her sister's husband had come up missing. Jack Donlan was closing an insurance deal on The Seventh when he disappeared. The police won't help, as there is no evidence of foul play. June doesn't want to leave Charley behind in Florida, especially since they are just beginning to know one another, but she has to go to Philadelphia to be with her mother, and try and help her sister, and father.

In Camden, New Jersey, another young man is just starting to make a life for himself in the diamond business. Johnny Nelson is working his way up in the company, and likes the work he is doing. Although at times thoughts of getting rich quick go through his mind, he never follows through on any of them.

Mr. Savoie has brought together characters from different parts of the country, from different backgrounds, and with different interests into a mind-blowing story that you cannot stop reading. PIECES OF SAND is a skillfully written and compelling story. His characters are living, breathing, people whom you just have to know more about.

When I read Mr. Savoie's first book The Pracktl Affair, I honestly thought that he could never top himself, as it was such a great book. But he has outdone himself with PIECES OF SAND.

PIECES OF SAND is a psychological thriller that draws the reader into the dark and evil mind of a serial killer. A serial killer who perhaps is justified in feeling the way that he does, or perhaps is so sick that he can't control what he does, or perhaps just plain evil. You make up your own mind on that one, but believe me which ever way you go, you aren't going to forget him for a very long time. The story is spell binding and totally captivating.

PIECES OF SAND is destined to make it to the top. This story is so well written, and so well thought out that it cannot do anything other than that. Mel Savoie has a very, very bright future for himself in the world of best sellers. I certainly hope that he presents us with a lot more of his work. He definitely is first class, and I absolutely want to read more, and more, of his work. You will too. Especially after reading PIECES OF SAND.