Once Gone

[b:Once Gone 28226790 Once Gone (Riley Paige Mystery, #1) Blake Pierce https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1450288969s/28226790.jpg 48254716]I quite enjoyed this book, but I'm not really tempted to keep reading the series. The notes at the end mention Blake Pierce is an avid reader of crime fiction. This doesn't surprise me, as it felt like she's thrown the plots from a number of established authors into a blender and churned out fan fiction instead of trying to create her own style. The characters have some depth to them, but the plot is let down by Paige's impossibly lucid insight when presented with little information, and her colleagues' lucid stupidity when faced with a wealth of it. An early example is her partner Bill admiring her brilliance for suggesting the FBI look for connections between the children of two mothers murdered by the same killer. I didn't dislike the book, but I'm glad I didn't have to pay anything for it. Scribd has book two as an audiobook I might give it a listen if I can't find something else to sink my teeth into.