Former police detective, Sami Rizzo, barely escaped with her life when she was captured by a serial killer. It was such a horrific experience that she left the police force and started on a path to become a social worker. Now, two years later, she's starting to realize that her idealistic view of the future isn't working out quite the way she envisioned it. Her live in lover, Alberto Diaz, also used to be her partner when she was on the force. Life is pretty good for the most part but something just doesn't feel right.

Then the rug is suddenly pulled out from under her when her mother suffers from a serious heart attack and will need immediate surgery. On top of that, there seems to be a very different sort of serial killer on the loose and Al is hip deep in the investigation. In the middle of all of this, Al gets a phone call from his sister's companion telling him that she's been in a horrible accident and is just barely clinging to life in Rio. He has to take off and leave in the middle of the investigation.

With Al gone, there's a shortage of qualified investigators to catch this serial killer now called The Resuscitator, who is also escalating in his killing spree. Sami reaches the decision that she's needed to help stop this monster so she requests to be reinstated to the police force. With Al missing in action and no set date to come back, Sami is reinstated and welcomed back with open arms.

The investigation takes her to places that give her plenty of twists and turns to deal with. In spite of a really good description of the murderer, it seems that he's still just a face in the crowd. No one knows what his motives are and when he'll strike next. Nothing makes sense in this case for a very good reason: Their killer is a cardiologist, a man sworn to help heal people.

Things get sketchy when Al returns from Rio with a huge secret that can change his relationship with Sami forever. Sami's also got a secret of her own that can be just as life changing. The two of them must work through their personal issues while working on stopping The Resuscitator before he takes out another victim.

RESUSCITATION is the second book in the Sami Rizzo series by D.M. Annechino. It was very well written and grabbed me from the very first sentence. As I always judge a book by how hard it is for me to put it down, this was definitely a 10. I carried it with me everywhere I went and had to force myself to stop reading it for work and sleep. It's just that good of a book. Even though the killer is introduced early on, you still don't know who it really is until the end of the book. That's hard to pull off but Mr. Annechino does it admirably.