I'm a big fan of Greg Isles but this novel was pretty awful. I had to muddle through this one, it was torture. Where's the quality that was in "The Quiet Game" and his other novels. It's as if he wrote it over the weekend. His prose, especially when he describes the characters sex life, reads like a 15 year old boy wrote it. I always buy his books as soon as they come out but I may be waiting for the paperback on his next book.
This effort by Iles is one-part Lifetime Movie of the Week, and one-part Robert Crais-like thrill ride. The Lifetime sections can be long and overwrought, but the thriller sections are taut with anxiety. The problem is that there are too many parts reminiscent of Lifetime movies, compared to the parts that we thriller fans are looking for.Iles is a skilled writer, but because he doesn't stick to a tried-and-true formula, he's a box-of-chocolates kind of author; we never know quite what we're going to get ..
Greg Iles latest novel, THIRD DEGREE, is a harrowing thriller that takes place over the course of an afternoon. Lauren Shields teaches a developmentally disabled class at the elementary school. Her husband Warren is a doctor. One morning she wakes up and finds Warren frantically searching the house for something. In fact, he's been searching all night. He says it has something to do with an IRS audit of his business. Lauren has problems of her own. She's pregnant, and the baby probably isn't Warren's. For t..
