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When Amos Decker returned home to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn’t think he could carry on living.

Overwhelmed with grief, Decker saw his life fall apart, losing his job as a detective, his house, and his self-respect. But when his former partner visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murder of his family, he knows he must seek justice for them.

Then tragedy strikes at the local school: teenagers are gunned down and the killer is at large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional footballer, he gained a remarkable gift – and the police believe that this unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer.

Amos Decker must endure the memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he is left with only one option…

I’ve been enjoying David Rosenfelt books recently, so I wanted to try some other suspense/thriller/mystery authors. For my first Baldacci book, I borrowed the audiobook from the library.

First off (and I’m not letting this impact the review), the audio recording is surprisingly low-quality for such a large publisher. The sound quality between the different narrators is different, and you can tell anytime something was edited because the background noise and narrator voice changes. It was not my favorite.

This was a 13-hour audiobook that could have been half as long–there were so many unnecessary and repeated details (yes, he has size 14 feet). I wanted to know what happened, though, so I decided to plow through. Overall, the plot was interesting, but there were too many details that slowed it down. It was also quite dark. The MC describes every person he sees, and there’s only one attractive person in the whole book — everyone is grotesque and the settings are all depressing. The violence at the end was more descriptive than I’m comfortable with, so I skipped past it.

Overall, I liked the twists and turns, but the writing was too bogged down and dark for me.

Rated PG-13/R for violence, drugs/alcohol, and some swearing.

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