BLOODY POINT by LINDA WHITE is an exciting thriller which you won't be able to put down! We are kept guessing right to the end!Cassie McKenna and Jake Tucker have been partners in the F. B. I., but Cassie hands in her badge and gun, wanting to have nothing to do with her old life because she can't get over the loss of her husband Mike, also an F. B. I. agent and Jake's best friend. It is when Jake is attacked that Cassie wishes she hadn't resigned from her job. She seems to have lost everything - her husband, her partner, her job and her faith in God. She calls in a favour with an old friend of her father's and gets a job as a reporter for the local newspaper in order to be able to use her press pass to ask questions and try and solve the fires at the marina, the murdered boat owner and Jake's attack.
We see this sense of loss too in Jake's life - his wife has divorced him, he misses his children terribly, he's lost his best friend and he is suffering the aftermath of a brutal attack. He comes very close to giving up.
I like the way the author describes the struggles the characters go through when they are trying to make sense of life and are asking the question so many of us ask, namely, "why do bad things often happen to people who are serving God?" The message of restoration runs through the story and also of the importance of trusting God no matter what happens.
The weather and the sea play an important role and form the background to the story - the descriptions of the storms underline the danger that is threatening to destroy Jake and Cassie, and anyone else who gets in the way of the mysterious killer.
I really enjoyed this novel and am looking forward to the sequel, "Battered Justice" which is coming out in June.
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