- Kindle Edition
- 319 pages
- Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie, #1)
- Victoria Selman
- English
- 26 January 2017 Victoria Selman
Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision Picking through the carnage, ex special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message He did it You have to tell someone.When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator As the body count rises it becomes clear he s on a new spree But what s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move But time is running out And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award New Download Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie, #1) By Victoria Selman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – lemois-ess.org
Blood for Blood was both a page turner and a disappointment What began as an edge of your seat read quickly deteriorated into a muddled pool of feints and missteps The book starts on a commuter train where Ziba MacKenzie is engaged in people watching It s clear that she is keenly observant as she relates the minute details of her fellow passengers and silently passes judgement on each The reader learns that MacKenzie is a successful independent profiler , in the process of emerging from her Blood for Blood was both a page turner and a disappointment What began as an edge of your seat read quickly deteriorated into a muddled pool of feints and missteps The book starts on a commuter train where Ziba MacKenzie is engaged in people watching It s clear that she is keenly observant as she relates the minute details of her fellow passengers and silently passes judgement on each The reader learns that MacKenzie is a successful independent profiler , in the process of emerging from her grief over her husband s murder When the train then crashes, the results are grisly MacKenzie springs into action, drawing strength and knowledge from her time in the special forces, helping where she can in spite of her own injuries As one woman lay dying, her final words draw MacKenzie into a quest for truth that eventually becomes intertwined in a serial killer ca...
It s rare that a single side character causes me to cut a book rating in half, but here we are One of these days I m going to read a book with a strong, independent female lead 2018 wasn t a good year for me and such a book, but I entered 2019 ever hopeful One might be fooled into thinking that this is one But no What we have instead is a woman still broken from the death of her husband Which is fine Could be great, even It s a great opportunity to show her inner strength as she comes to It s rare that a single side character causes me to cut a book rating in half, but here we are One of these days I m going to read a ...
Blood for Blood was anFirst Read selection for January and I m thrilled that I chose this one I have a new favorite series as well as a tough, new female protagonist to follow Zina MacKenizie is former special ops, a widow who watched as her undercover cop husband was shot by a pro in front of her eyes She now is working as a freelance profiler for the MET and is one of the best in field Selman, the author, writes a gritty, dark, fast paced thriller that will keep you guessing throug Blood for Blood was anFirst Read selection for January and I m thrilled that I chose this one I have a new favorite series as well as a tough, new female protagonist to follow Z...
The first book in a new crime series by debut author Victoria Selman Ziba MacKenzie is a profiler, and her latest case involves a serial killer who is back after a long hiatus.A fast paced crime mystery with a strong female lead I usually enjoy books with strong female protagonists, but Ziba was kind of annoying She seemed a bit of a know it all, and the weird phrases she uses threw me off Additionally, I would have likedbackstory about Ziba I m guessing that as the series continues, The first book in a new crime series by debut author Victoria Selman Ziba MacKenzie is a profiler, and her latest case involves a serial killer who is back after a long hiatus.A fast paced crime mystery with a strong female lead I usually enjoy books ...
This was myFirst Read pick for January It s not a book I d recommend, and it s not a series I ll follow Some things that bothered me include Ziba is an annoying character who tries too hard to be a badass She has a habit of calling people ridiculous derogatory names, constantly, such as moon chicken and DI Dipstick She also uses her personal lingo for common things, such as lifer juice instead of coffee And a man s hands are dick grabbers I swear, she never just talks like This was myFirst Read pick for January It s not a book I d recommend, and it s not a series I ll follow Some things that bothered me include Ziba is an annoying character who tries too hard to be a badass She has a habit of calling people ridiculous derogatory names, constantly, such as moon chicken and DI Dipstick She also uses her personal lingo for common things, such as lifer juice instead of coffee And a man s hands are dick grabbers I swear, she never just talks like a normal person All this makes her unsympathetic and unlikable.Ziba lectures about serial killer...
Blood for Blood is a three star novel It started well but it was unnecessarily long and the novel was not as compelling as I would have liked.
A proper serial killer thriller with a great main protagonist and a twisty page turner with some great writing Part of my First Monday Crime reading so will review properly at a later date Looking forward to the next in the series
Thank you NetGalley andPublishing Thomas Mercer for this arc.I must say I m baffled by all the good reviews this has received I found it to be the usual serial killer hunt trap read with rather erratic pacing and very little tension Maybe it s because there were too many suspects dead ends But it was the dichotomous mess of Ziba Mac that just kept hitting the sour note for me She turns from the wobbly, weepy widow woman into the EMT trained heroine performing tr Thank you NetGalley andPublishing Thomas Mercer for this arc.I must say I m baffled by all the good reviews this has received I found it to be the usual serial killer hunt trap read with rather erratic pacing and very little tension Maybe it s because there were too many suspects dead ends But it was the dichotomous mess of Ziba Mac that j...
This book was one of the two choices I made for the Kindle First offer for January I ve given up on it at 30%, thoughit s full of military slang and I just got totally cheesed off having to keep looking up what she was on about Especially as Ziba no longer works for the military There s just no need for it and for me it ruined what is in essence an interesting story Such a shame.She uses the word ass a lot as well when it should be arse seeing as we re based in England Sentences like This book was one of the two choices I made for the Kindle First offer for January I ve given up on it at 30%, thoughit s full of military slang and I just got totally cheesed off having to keep looking up what she was on about Especially as Ziba no longer works for the military There s just no need for it and for me it ruined what is in essence an interesting story Such a shame.She uses the word ass a lot as well when it should be arse seeing as we re based in England Sentences like.trying to figure out a way to get an ident on my mystery woman and So, what s the sitrep then the craphat who killed him and finally, for me, I d spotted the shit bird on the platform Just needless and annoying, I m afraid.The serial killer moniker of London Lacerator just sounds daft AND lacerater should be spelt like this, anyway I didn t believe that a profiler would refer to genital mutilation and eye stabbings in a press conference, either.However, I hadn t spotted any punctuation or grammatical m...
I found a lot of issues with this book First, it always bothers me when strong female characters aren t written as people In other words, a common trope is to have the female character solo NEWSFLASH women aren t any less powerful when they ask for or accept help Many pages were fluff it seemedlike the author was trying to reach a certain number of pages rather than writing to move the plot forward The author also restates things regular...