CATCH ME by Lisa Gardner

Finished Mo 6/3/19

I bought this paperback at the library sale on Sa 4/13/19 for fifty cents.

This is kind of a 'female empowerment' novel in that all the major characters are women- even the villains. Although you would not refer to a Mickey Spillane novel as 'male empowerment', this was so heavily slanted towards the women's perspective that I think it must be noted.

At the end of the book she informs the reader that the names of the people that are killed in the novel were raffled off for charity. Theoretically, one of the dead men could have been called, 'Ken Worden'.

The novel deals with a mentally unbalanced mother would brutally abuses her children, and one of the girls grows into a serial killer. That's the premise in a nutshell. She feeds the girls crushed light bulbs with peanut butter.

A young woman has two of her best friends murdered on the same day- one year apart. She believes that she will be next, so she approaches a Boston detective and lays out the theory.

The young woman had been working as a police dispatcher and training in martial arts and firearms for over a year.

The rather muddled plot is that one of the police detectives is actually her blood thirsty sister.

From Goodreads:

"Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21.

Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation.

But as D.D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story. Instinct tells her that Charlene may not be in any danger at all. If that’s true, the woman must have a secret—one so terrifying that it alone could be the greatest threat of all."

Link to Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11720382-catch-me

I read the novel to the end and it was faintly interesting, yet the writing was pretty sub-standard. However, there are so many better novels in this genre that I wouldn't go out of my way to read another by this author. This is strictly a 'beach novel'.