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Title: Cuts Like a Knife

Author: M. K. Gilroy

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-12

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Kristen Conner goes undercover to catch a serial killer who chooses his victims in the most unlikely of places...only to discover she is his new target. Chicago has a new resident: a soulless killer on a decade-long murder spree. When a young woman is found dead in her fashionable townhome, the FBI is convinced an elusive, organized killer is at work again - a man the local press has dubbed the Cutter Shark.

Detective Kristen Conner is a good cop and tough as they come - but shes never faced an adversary like this. Her life is centered on faith and family: She coaches her nieces soccer team, always shows up hungry for family dinner, and only misses church when fighting with her mom and glamorous TV-news-reporter sister - or when hunting a desperate criminal before he strikes again.

From the opening chase that brings Kristen to knifepoint in a dark alley, to the concluding moments when she comes face-to-face with the hauntingly familiar serial killer, Cuts Like a Knife is loaded with action, suspense, humor, and wry introspection through the voice of its irresistible lead character.

Members Reviews:

Hard to put down

This is a great book. Here's what is great about it:

1. pacing is slow but steady. It give the reader a chance to digest what is going on, who everyone is, how everyone is connected. The story is not rushed at all. It just naturally unfolds.

2. the writing is easy to read and follow. There isn't a lot of jumping around, except for the main character who is quite ADD. "Focus."

3. the storyline is believable and plausible. It all makes sense. And the whodunnit isn't obvious!

4. the sequel is not a necessary read. It's a "I want to read more because I like the characters and I am now invested in what happens to them." There are a few unfinished story points that would be nice to have a resolution.

5. the female character is not annoying, not overly strong, not overly dumb, no overly anything. She's just a normal woman who is a Chicago Police Detective with a normal family. Refreshing!

I found the book hard to put down. The short chapters were helpful. The mixing up of storytelling between three characters was a good balance. I am eager to read on!

Slow starter makes up some lost time

When first starting this book something felt very out of place. First of all, it is definitely a slow starter (but the pace picks up later in the book). It also seems like it's going to be too creepy (too bloody) for some Christian readers but that levels off as well. What I couldn't figure out was why I was having so much difficulty getting into the skin of the protagonist. Kristen seemed likable, a little jaded and sarcastic but not objectionably so, but I was having trouble feeling the kinship. Then I discovered that M.K. Gilroy is male and I think he had some difficulty getting into his character's skin at first so the early portions of the book seem a little stilted. However, fortunately, either this reader adjusted or Mr. Gilroy did and Kristen settles in nicely after about the first fourth or so of the story. I thought the ending a little anticlimactic. I thought too much was given away in the latter chapters of the book and it would have made a much better read if the true identity of the killer (and his relationships to others in the story) were kept secret until closer to the end.