A serial killer lurks in people's homes for hours or days before he strikes...
The nightmare descends on a Tuesday. An elderly couple's home is transformed into a scene straight out of a horror film, their mutilated bodies the only clue left behind by the killer―and they are only the unlucky first in a series of impossible murders. Soon dubbed the Eastside Creeper, the murderer stalks Hollywood, camping out undetected in his victims' homes until he's ready to strike. After killing, he vanishes like smoke.
Considered an expert in the grotesque, Detective Tully Jarsdel lands this seemingly unsolvable case. Jarsdel, an academic-turned-cop, is intrigued by the Eastside Creeper. His methods are vicious, his path untraceable―nothing about this killer makes sense. But as the murders become more gruesome and the clues more inscrutable, widespread panic sets in. And amid the terror-induced chaos, Jarsdel's unconventional methods may be the only thing left between a killer and a city about to descend into chaos.
Title: What waits for you
Author: Joseph Schneider
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Publication date: January 5, 2021
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐
How did a book with such a creepy and terrific prologue ended up being so disappointing? Seriously, I'm so mad right now! That first description of the crime scene, the sense of menace, gave me chills, so I don't know what happened to the rest of the book but from there it all went downhill for me.
I found the first book in the series so refreshing, with an academic/historian turned police detective as the lead and not your usual tortured detective, but everything I liked about him then it turned irritating now. If you behave like a pompous ass you're gonna be treated like one by your colleagues! So many pretentious dialogue and pedantic language. Ugh!
One of the things I loved about the first book was Tully's relationship with Morales, but in this case Morales is just a guest star, so another let down.
Why would you create such a great villain, the Creeper, and such atrocious crimes, to not take off the investigation until so far into the story? Instead there were pages and pages of side plots that didn't contribute anything to the main plot. I found Dr. Varma's plot and all her explanations about security, the environment and criminal quite boring.
The end was only mildly surprising, but the motive THAT character gave for its crimes and its actions while committing them was so ridiculous! I won't go into details about the actual ending cause I don't wanna give away spoilers, but I thought it was a complete scam. Almost 400 pages and you can't bother to give a real explanation?
It pains me to say that my relationships with Detective Tully Jarsdel ends here.
Thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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