Book Review: Cereal Killer

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Cereal Killer     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
G. A. McKevett
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character
Series: Savannah Reid # 9
Kensington, Jan 2004, $22.00, 256 pp.

Although she left Georgia to put some distance between her and her family, Savannah Reid is the quintessential Steel Magnolia, a true daughter of the south. After working for the San Carmelita Police Department for a few years and butting heads with her political superiors, she quits, operating her own Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency.

Her friend and former partner are having lunch in the park one day when he gets called to investigate a homicide that just occurred. Savannah tags alone when she realizes the victim is Caitlin Connor, a plus size model who is world renown. Not long after that, , another plus size model, is also found murdered and left on the side of the road to make it look as if she was run over by a car while jogging. Both Caitlin and Kameeka were working for the same advertising agency starring in a cereal commercial so there is a connection between the two models. When a third model is kidnapped, the agent who is represented all three woman hires Savannah to find the perpetrator and try to find the third victim before she is found dead as well. Savannah, her police friend Dirk, and some other allies work the case before another death occurs.

A full figured woman, Savannah Reid is comfortable in her own skin and doesn’t let other people’s opinions of her weight bother her. She can be tough, sympathetic and bullheaded, all at the same time but readers will love her because she cares about her family, friends and people in general. CEREAL KILLER is an exciting hard to put down earthy private investigative tale.

Harriet Klausner

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