Title: Void Moon
Author: Michael Connelly
Format: PB
Pages: 447
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Vision, 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0446609142
Series: Stand Alone
Favorite Quote: "Remember what you said before about there being a jinx? It was the void moon, Cass. That was the jinx."
Synopsis (Amazon): In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run--with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the change, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...
Review: I just love finding a new author who I love. This was a great read. It was fast paced and thrilling, full of plot twists and unexpected turns. Up to the end, I wasn't sure what would happen. It was really a surprise, and a good one at that.
It's not quite on the same level as a really great Grisham thriller, but it's good, even great in some areas. I loved the heroine, Cassidy Black, the ex-con. I loved the bad guy, known in Vegas as the Jack of Spades. I especially loved the fact that there was absolutely no romance in this novel, except in Cass' memories. This was not a romance novel disguised as a thriller. It had fast cars, lots of action and quite a few deaths. It was a thriller.
Rating: 8 / 10
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