Ashes to Ashes
Written by Tami Hoag
4.5/5
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He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking.
Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. Her superiors are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent John Quinn gets assigned to the case. But the FBI’s ace profiler of serial killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled history. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career—and her life. For she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer…and the one woman he wants next.
Tami Hoag
TAMI HOAG is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. There are more than forty million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. She lives in California.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good book, it takes awhile to get into though like some of her other books, but still worth the read. Some of it was a bit cliche too but I liked most of the characters a lot.
The girl witness was supposed to be a ‘cutter’, but the whole reality of what goes through a girls mind when she does that stuff was way off. It’s not some sort of instant shut off valve for negative emotions, lol. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The audio skipped throughout the book and finished before the ending.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This has been an interesting storyline and the nature of the killers who were also lovers working together and the way they covered their criminal crimes. Including getting away from it all. But hate is the stronger element and it led to them being caught. Supervisory Special Agent John Quinn came to the State of Minneapolis to investigate a Rich businessman whose daughter was murdered in a very horrific way. The Mayor, the chief of police, and the Hennepin county attorney all were trying to get involved with the investigation and get the information to the press.
But the task force went out of their way to find out about a place where they can do their job without the mayor’s involvement. The involvement of the Hennepin County attorney's office and the lawyers and the Mr. Peter Bondurant’s Doctors. The team did their job but not without one interference from the killer and then after the fourth victim, they discovered that there was a second killer involved.
The advocate who was working as the witness was also brought to this case which she was not supposed to be a part of. A serial killer loose in Minneapolis and now he's broken the pattern and abducted and presumably killed someone other than a prostitute. Now he's got the attention of the community, law enforcement, and the press, and a new moniker...The Cremator, because of what he does to his victims after he's killed them. The atmosphere is now so politically charged the top guns are being assigned. Kate Conlan, a former DC FBI agent, now victim/witness advocate for the city, is assigned to work with the killer's one witness. John Quinn, the country's renowned top profiler for the bureau has been called in to work with the local police and he and Kate have a history.
This is a gritty story with a plethora of flawed people who are tasked with finding this killer and solving the case. Kate escaped to Minneapolis following a scandal only to have it show up in the form of John Quinn. Their struggle to resist picking up where they left off has a bearing on the case as it causes some distraction. The detectives assigned to the case are doing their jobs pretty well in spite of political interference from top brass because of the high profile of the last victim's father (he's a billionaire). And the one witness to the last crime is more than reluctant to cooperate and is a pain in the neck.
There are so many layers to each of the characters and the story that it kept me engaged throughout. However, it does get bogged down a bit with too many ruminations by Quinn and Kate about their individual tragedies, past and present. The reiterations felt like overkill, pardon the pun, but they were important to know these two people. The twists and turns and red herrings were pleasantly distracting and by the end, I wasn't quite sure if I had identified the right person as the killer. I got there but not easily so but the clues were there.
It's a great start to the series, even though Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska weren't at the forefront of the story. However, we know enough about them because they were extremely well developed as characters and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action. This is a good mystery and the suspense was killing me. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best plot twists I've read in ages