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    Run the Risk
    Run the Risk
    Run the Risk
    Audiobook8 hours

    Run the Risk

    Written by Scott Frost

    Narrated by Shelly Frasier

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A detective faces a horrifying choice between love and duty in this hair-raising debut.

    Reminiscent of the best in today's suspense-from Jeffery Deaver's roller-coaster twists to James Patterson's cinematic pacing-Run the Risk introduces a blazing new talent in Scott Frost. As one of the writers behind Twin Peaks, he knows something about creating eerie and atmospheric tension. In this brilliant novel, he gives us a heroine who faces a challenge no one can ever be completely prepared for and a story as urgently and viscerally told as any in recent memory.

    Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Delillo works a case that chills her from the start: one with too much ambiguity and far too many surprises. None of the evidence-and yet all of it-seems relevant. A small-time shopkeeper is shot to death. Then a rare, untraceable explosive ignites in a bungalow, hurling the front door across the yard. Finally, a teenaged girl goes missing, her car window smashed, her keys still in the ignition. Even before they tell her, Detective Delillo knows that this girl is her daughter.

    Delillo tracks her quarry on a trail of escalating terror toward a fiery showdown that will test her wisdom, her will, and her every skill.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 1, 2005
    ISBN9781400171521
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    • 5/5
      Whilst there's not an incredible amount of depth to the characters, and there is almost a touch too much lamenting of not being an ideal parent on the part of Lt Alex Delillo, the novel overcomes these short comings with it's fast paced and enthralling plot. I hadn't heard of this author previously and actually picked up the first edition in the local book store's free bin, so going in I didn't exactly have any preconceived notions that it would be a killer read. In that respect I was pleasantly surprised having just knocked it over in a day, not wanting to put it down for long and wanting to see where the course of events was heading.I would recommend for fans of crime thrillers.
    • 4/5
      Lt. Alex Dellilo of the L.A. police dept. is investigating the killing of a local florist shop owner. She and her partner go to the man's associate's home but the door is rigged with explosives. Alex's partner is hosptialized and is lucky to be alive.Before this, Alex had been at a beauty pagent where her daughter, Lacy, was a contestant. Lacy created a near riot by removing two cyllinders that were beneath her gown and telling the audience that they were ruining the environment for a parade. The crowd thought there was poison in the cyllinders and panicked. Alex and local police calmed them down. She is furious with her daughter and wonders what happened to the teenager who was happy to be in jeans and T-shirts.Alex is working with Det. Dylon Harrison who was in the bomb squad. He is a calm professional and has the ability to calm down Alex and the people he comes in contact with in his bomb detecting duties.Soon after, a body is found in a remote area. Identification shows that he's a member of the Mexican army and officials speculate that he brought bomb making equipment to the area.Lacy goes missing and Harrison has to disarm a bomb from a potential witness.The novel is packed with action and the author draws the reader into the story as we feel that we'd like to know more of Alex, how she rescues her daughter and stops the mad bomber.
    • 3/5
      Emotional cops would not be allowed to work a case involving their own family. There was to much complaining about her failure as a parent. The narrator spoke in soft tones that is difficult to hear in a car.
    • 4/5
      Frost introduces Lt. Alex Delillo, a tough detective trying to combine being a mother with her career in law enforcement. In this mystery, Delillo hunts down a murderer who may be a terrorist. The killer is good at hiding and has protected himself and his motives with layer upon layer of false leads. Delillo has to identify the layers and get to the truth to save her daughter’s life. Not quite a “noir” mystery, but close.
    • 1/5
      Horrible - facts wrong (the rose queen is selected in October, not 2 days before the parade; the arts and crafts architects were Greene & Greene, not Green & Green), no character development, contrived mystery