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Old 03-12-2019, 10:18 AM   #2495
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I listened to two books by Tom Hunt: Killer Choice, narrated by Ray Porter, and One Fatal Mistake, narrated by Erin Bennett.

Killer Choice has a good premise--husband of terminally ill woman needs money for experimental treatment that might save her; lowlife will pay him if he kills a cop. The fatal flaw here is that it's pretty hard to root for a protagonist who would even consider murder for hire. The setup reminded me a bit of Daniel Palmer's Stolen--though there the crime is theft, not murder, which made Palmer's protagonists a bit more palatable.

Still, the book seemed good enough for me to dive right into Tom Hunt's second book, One Fatal Mistake. In this one, a mother and son covering up a fatal hit-and-run collide with a pair of fleeing bank robbers. This one just didn't work for me--I thought the book would explore the moral dilemma of the coverup and its corrosive effects; instead, the story was mostly about escaping the bank robbers.
Spoiler:
I expected some twist about the victim of the hit-and-run, but it never happened. The accident was pretty much just a device to set the story in motion and to keep the mom from trusting the police.
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