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Death Unmasked by Rick Sulik
2.0

Disclaimer: I received this book from the author. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: Death Unmasked

Author: Rick Sulik

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 2/5

Recommended For...: thriller, mystery

Publication Date: December 1, 2015

Genre: Thriller

Recommended Age: can’t recommend, dnf-ed

Publisher: Christopher Matthews Publishing

Pages: 264

Synopsis: A reincarnated evil is stalking the women of Houston. With each murder, the madman quotes an excerpt from the Oscar Wilde poem, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” A huge smokestack belching smoke, a ragged flea market double-breasted wool coat, and an old antique picture frame, bring the distant past back to haunt Houston Homicide Detective, Sean Jamison. With those catalysts, Jamison knows who he was in a past life and that he lost the only woman he could ever love. Searching for his reincarnated mate becomes Jamison’s raison d’être as he and fellow detectives scour Houston for a brutal serial killer. The memory of timeless love drives Jamison’s dogged search for a serial killer, determined to finish what he started decades earlier.
Each clue brings Jamison closer to unmasking his old nemesis. Tenacious police work, lessons learned in the past, and intuition may be the only weapons he has in preventing history from repeating itself.

Review: I had to DNF this book at 43%. The book had a lot of needless information that really weighed this book down and it was very slow pacing wise. The book is wrote with multiple stories interconnected, but it just came off as confusing for me. The concept of the book is interesting, but the plot didn’t keep me intrigued once I started reading it.

Verdict: Not for me, but it might be for you!