Review: Eye of Vengeance

Nick Mullins is a veteran crime reporter on a Florida newspaper. When he gets sent to the scene of an accident where a drunk driver smashed into his family and killed his wife and one of his twin daughters, his life is shattered. After taking a leave of absence and spending most of it drinking too much, mourning and wishing he had spent more time with his family than being so obsessed with his job, Nick is back on the job and trying to be a better father to his remaining nine year old daughter.

Eye of Vengeance begins with Nick being sent to the scene of a sniper shooting of a convict on his way to trial to try to get his death sentence overturned. Nick immediately recognizes the name of the convict as he had written a good deal about him at the time he was arrested and convicted of his crimes of molesting and killing two young children. Then the next victim is another ex-convict that Nick had written extensively about and he becomes heavily involved in the investigation as it appears the sniper may be using Nick’s writing to pick out his victims.

Nick is not your average reporter that just does a short piece on the convict’s current crime that he has been arrested for but digs deep into the background and writes about how depraved these men really are. He also writes compassionately about the victims they have left behind.

Now Nick finds himself stuck in the middle. In one way, he can understand the sniper’s motives as he is currently outraged that his wife and daughter’s killer has been turned loose after only a short jail term. But he winds up being called in for a supposed exclusive with the police and a federal agent investigating sniper shootings across the country and Nick seems to have found the link within his own stories that bring the victims together. He doesn’t trust the police and doesn’t want to give up all of the information he finds out as they will kill his stories. It turns into a guessing game as to which ones of Nick’s stories are going to produce the next victim if they are on the right trail.

I have read a couple of Jonathon King’s Max Freeman novels which I greatly enjoyed but I also found this new one quite captivating and a page turner and look forward to reading more about Nick Mullins.

Reprinted with permission. Do Not repost without permission from the author, Gina Metz - RAM

Book Review: Eye of Vengeance