Review - Moving Target

Moving Target by J.A. Jance

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


For some reason, it took me forever to get through this book.  It had a good plot, interesting characters and the such, but it was just a slow read.  I'm still trying to figure out how the two subplots related to each other, other than the characters.  I'll probably continue to read Jance's works, but may not read any more of the Ali Reynolds series.

Plot (from Goodreads.com): Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender and talented hacker in his own right, is set on fire one night and severely burned while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds's fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obliged to get to the bottom of what happened. With Ali off in England to help Leland Brooks at a reunion with his long-estranged family, B. turns to someone else to help out: Ali's good friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm.

Meanwhile, in Bournemouth, Leland's hometown, Ali begins to investigate the decades-old murder of Leland's father, which Leland himself was once suspected of committing. With unsolved murders on both sides of the Atlantic, Ali, B., and Sister Anselm are united by their search for answers and the jeopardy they get into as a result.

Now I am reading my first Utah 2014 Beehive Book Award nominee book, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library by Chris Grabenstein.