Book review by Harper Grey - Walking on Thin Ice {A Rachel Drucker Thriller} by Robert Burns

Book - Walking on Thin Ice (a Rachel Drucker Thriller)   

Author - Robert Burns

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Review:

Rachel is a young newspaper reporter in Sacramento, California relentlessly searching for her break out story. Ted is her father, a former police detective, who spent his career unable to solve a sensational case involving the disappearance of a five-year-old girl. Rachel realizes this case could be her big break and she is determined to solve the mystery with the help of her dad. Here’s the catch. Ted has been dead for years. Walking on Thin Ice is the debut crime thriller novel by Robert Burns and it is brilliant.  The storytelling is clever and intense with twists and turns so finely crafted, I found it very hard to put the book down.  Just when you think you have it all figured out, Burns takes you down another rabbit hole filled with even more possible suspects and scenarios. One of the things that makes this novel so unique for me is the tender, yet often contentious relationship between Rachel and Ted. Through lucid dreams, Rachel can have all the conversations she was never able to have with her father and join forces with him to finally put this case to rest. By masterfully layering this impassioned element with the ardent adrenaline-filled rush to solve the crime, Burns has created an exceptional crime thriller. I look forward to his future works and hope to see a series of Rachel Drucker Thrillers.



Comments

  1. Kyrie WangMarch 7, 2022 at 7:11 AM

    I love lucid dreams and was able to experience a few myself in my lifetime. Sounds like a very interesting element to include in fiction!
    Great review.

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