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Title: Portrait on Wicker
Subtitle: The Sequel to Blood on White Wicker
Author: Peggy Holloway
Narrator: Hannah Howzdy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-14-15
Publisher: Peggy Holloway
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
In this sequel to Blood on White Wicker, Judith McCain is now a psychologist and returns to New Orleans in search of her missing sister, Julia, an artist. Judith uncovers a pedophile ring involving several judges and some upstanding pillars of the community, including her former foster father. The psychologist eventually teams up with her FBI friend, John Shepherd, the man who helped her remember her past when she was 16. They attempt to find a judge they can trust. Judith is again forced to face her past, and is in danger of becoming a victim when she trusts the wrong person.
Members Reviews:
Great Premise Suffers from Poor Execution
The author of "Portrait on Wicker" wrote that she penned this short novel in two months. Unfortunately, it reads like it was done in two weeks. The basic premise of the plot, centering around a bigger-than-life child pornography ring with the protagonist as one of its earliest rescued victims, is worthy of Grisham or Connelly. The craft here is not. While there are some nice twists in the story, some were just silly and coincidental beyond belief. The protagonist seemed more interested in coffee, and later sleep, as though the author figured these made for significant character traits. They did not. The flat characters could have used deeper brush strokes rather than the psychology 101 that was painted here for some seriously afflicted good and bad people.
I sensed little understanding of how the FBI or police actually do their job. Also, evidence is kept in a chain-of-custody not a chain-of-command. Silly errors like this cropped up all of the time, along with numerous grammatical issues above my usually forgiving threshold. A host of civilians would not make up the kind of impromptu FBI/police/victims/judges SWAT squad in the way they were portrayed in the book with the psychologist protagonist seemingly running most of the show. And the ending made no sense whatsoever. "This is the story xxxx told me in his own words. Of course he thought I wouldn't be around to tell anyone, that I would be dead...." Hey, nice way to ruin the ending and remove the tension out of the story as the second banana bad guys spills his guts for no good reason.
There is much repetition. The ending dragged on, and when the ultimate bad guy was revealed, it wasn't plausible. Where was all the "deep" psychological justification for the really bad guy to erect such an empire of evil as there was for the second banana bad guy? And there was no real reason to believe that this person could even pull it off, in secret, for all these years, while holding down a stressful full-time job. I nearly put this book down several times, but forged on. The author should remove this book, work on it for a year, and give the premise a story to match it. This is a "2".
Good
the story that has murders kidnapping sexual abuse and so many different criminal types that have so much protection from different law enforcement.
One Star
Never finished.
Great book
I enjoyed reading this book and read the other and am trying to find more of books by her to read.
Good sequel
As the second in the series by Peggy Holloway, I was unsure as to how it would continue seeing as the first book had wrapped up the case of the two girls being kidnapped as childred.