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Title: Fatal Mistake
Subtitle: Lexie Rogers, Book 3
Author: Karen M. Davis
Narrator: Kate Hosking
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-01-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The gripping new crime thriller from Karen M. Davis.
Detective Lexie Rogers is tough, smart and at the top of her game. She's seen it all, from bikies, blood and betrayal to drugs, deviants and deception...and the violent knife attack that almost killed her as a young cop on the beat.
Lexie's sent on the job of a lifetime - to go deep undercover, as beautiful Lara Wild, a drug distributor, to expose a huge dealing ring among Sydney's most treacherous criminals. What she discovers is that being undercover is the safest place to be, especially when you're a cop with a target on your head, but one false move means she'll die. And creeping from the shadows is the darkness of her past, something she can never outrun....
Critic Reviews:
"Gripping and gritty." (The Daily Telegraph)
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Excellently
Ordinary !
Enough to say that I didn't enjoy this book, the plot was lightweight and predictable! I was disappointed because it was an Australian author and I started to read with enthusiasm and anticipation !
Five Stars
Awesome, Awesome!!
It's great to see authors (in this case, a former police officer) who know their stuff!
I hadnât realised this book was the third in a series until I started reading it and my enjoyment probably suffered a little as a result as I felt like I was missing a lot of the context. The characters, however are great and â if you get the chance â Iâd recommend starting at the beginning. Starting part-way through (as Iâve done) will mean you get some spoilers about earlier books, case outcomes and the charactersâ exploits.
Itâs always great to discover an Aussie crime fiction series and Karen M Davis â as a former police officer with 20 years of experience â obviously knows her stuff as she includes a lot of detail about police procedures and undercover work.
Iâm generally not a fan of multiple plots, but by midway through we see the potential links so the work of Lexieâs boyfriend Josh, in Byron Bay tracking down marijuana growers, seemed a little more relevant. Initially I wondered why we were spending so much time with him when the plot was unfolding in Lexieâs patch in Bondi Junction.
I appreciated that Davis makes Lexie believable and not infallible. Itâs one of her first real gigs undercover and her trepidation and nerves are completely understandable. Sheâs slightly horrified by the background information sheâs given about her targets and itâs a nice change for an author to reflect that the lives of most cops donât involve serial killers and the worst mankind has to offer. Just the occasional baddies and their friends.
I found some of the language or dialogue of this novel to be a little rudimentary at times and I wasnât sure if that was supposed to reflect charactersâ evolution â recognising of course that Davis would better know how conversations between cops would play out. I also felt though that some of the language didnât entirely fit with the charactersâ one of the lower ranked drug dealers, for example is portrayed as pretty stupid but uses âconceitedâ and âconsensualâ in one sentence, which jumped out at me a little.