R. C. Carter

Ryan O’Rourke, the owner of an insurance fraud investigative agency in the Chicago area, receives a large manila envelope from a good friend who owns a similar agency in the Los Angeles area. The envelope contains a couple of photos and some coordinates, but no information as to why they were sent to him. Then, he discovers that his friend was murdered shortly after sending the package. As he and his investigative team connects with his friend’s investigative team to solve the murder and complete the investigation case of a security breach within a top security research company with facilities in the Los Angeles and Chicago areas, as well as some overseas offices, a devious party adds more murder victims and uses 3-D science to set up investigators on the teams as the murderers to the police. The story develops like a good basic police/private investigator procedural like “NCIS”. The case has setbacks and dangers and more victims from the guilty party, but the team is able to prevail and solve the case. Mystery and action readers will enjoy the tale, but they will have to get past the sudden shifting of perspective from first person narration to third person perspective within a section, and in one case, within a single paragraph. Just a minor quirk from the authors.… (mais)

Unlike many of the other reviewers, I thought this was a Zombie story. Surprised? Yes. Disappointed? No. This story captured my attention from the very start and once I encountered the zombies, I understood why the co-authors used this title. This is my first book by this husband and wife team and I found that it flowed well between the scenes and character points of view. There are several sub-plots taking place and the authors do a wonderful job at bringing them all together at the end. I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to read a suspenseful crime novel...the message here is that crime doesn't pay especially if you try to cross both a Chicago mob boss and a hispanic drug lord at the same time.… (mais)