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Date Posted: 16:19:12 05/20/05 Fri
Author: Syl
Subject: Random Acts

This one was sent in by Margy. Looks thrilling! Thanks, lass!



Title: Random Acts
Author: Taylor Smith
Genre: Thriller/Mystery

This is the 4th book of Taylor Smith’s that I've read, and I've enjoyed each one.

In this book, the central character is Claire Gillespie, a crime reporter for a New York news magazine.

The story begins with Claire receiving a call from her boss trying to persuade her to go to California to cover the emerging story of the Southland Slayer, who is kidnapping babies, and has just kidnapped baby number 3.

Claire won't go, mainly because she is already absorbed on tracking down the killer of her lover, an FBI undercover agent who was infiltrating a Russian gang when his car was blown up and her world was turned upside down.

Unfortunately, no-one knows that Claire and the FBI agent (Michael) were involved, and now no-one can know, because Claire discovered at his funeral that he was married. After meeting with the Russian mobster, Claire is convinced that Michael was not killed by the Russians, but by the FBI, perhaps even his wife and her alleged lover, Gar Doucet.

In California, Michael’s widow, Laurel Madden, is working on the Southland Slayer case, profiling the kidnapper. When Claire sees Laurel on the news, just after she has been confronted by Gar, and her flat has been ransacked and all her hard-earned research stolen, Claire decides to go to California to follow up on Michael’s death, and the Southland Slayer case also.

This is a fast paced action thriller, with some predictable and other not so predictable twists and turns. I really enjoy Taylor Smiths style of writing, and will be looking out for her other books to full the gaps in those I've collected so far.

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[> Arrgh, doesn't anyone stay in their own bed anymore! Just kidding, Margy! Sounds like the kind of good whodunit that would keep me up nights until I finished it. Thanks! -- beccabee, 17:54:33 05/20/05 Fri


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[> Late to the party, but this sounds great - gonna go reserve it at the library. :D -- Judie, 10:43:32 05/29/05 Sun


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