Catherine McLeod is an investigative journalist with the
Denver Journal, and she's been covering Mathews' campaign.
She is assigned to the cover the story, and a woman calls in
anonymously to report that she knows who did it. In fact,
after seeing a television news story shows the police at the
Mathews' house, the witness also says that she can't go to
the police because the killer is one of them. Catherine
happens to believe the witness, but no one else does.
Soon, a game of cat and mouse begins. Catherine is eager to
chase down the anonymous caller, as well as figure out which
police officer the caller was referring to. To do this, she
launches what amounts to her own investigation into the
murder. Meanwhile, Beckman is eager to eliminate anyone who
can connect the dots between her and David and begins
systematically figuring out who the witness might have been
and who she may have told.
THE PERFECT MURDER is fast-paced and fraught with tension. I
greatly enjoy the characters and how they interact with each
other. The dialogue is realistic and achieves an easy
balance of "tough enough" while not being "over the top and
cheesy." The one thing that bothered me is that I never got
to the point where I was rooting against Beckman, although
it was clear that she was a dirty cop. After thinking about
this, I think it is because the book begins by painting her
in a somewhat sympathetic light (being dumped by a man,
being lied to, etc.) AND the book begins with a chapter
about her, rather than about Catherine, which made me
immediately more interested and emotionally invested in
Beckman. Overall, however, I enjoyed the book and the story-
telling, and I would love to read more books in this series.
A new Catherine McLeod mystery from the New York Times
bestselling author of the Wind River mysteries. After a
candidate for governor is murdered, and his estranged wife
is arrested for first-degree homicide, journalist Catherine
McLeod receives a call from an anonymous woman claiming she
saw the real killer leave the scene of the crime but is
afraid to confide in the police. To uncover the truth,
Catherine must risk her career-and her life-to find the
witness who can identify the candidate's murderer: Detective
Ryan Beckman.
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