Malice (New Orleans Series #6)

Malice

I waited eagerly for Malice to hit the shelves and I wasn't disappointed. It was un-put-downable. Full credit to Lisa Jackson for writing so eloquently of Bentz's frustration (I know he's not real, but his persistence in the face of enmity was particularly well done!).
Lisa Jackson's books are very well plotted and her characterisation is exceptional (hence my complete addiction to the New Orleans crew). My measure of a good book is one where time becomes a concept and not some strident intrusion into my pleasure. Malice made me forget everything else and had me glued to every word.
Well done Lisa Jackson, but don't waste time sitting on your laurels.

7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

An action-packed suspense thriller

Twelve years ago Rick Bentz divorced his cheating wife Jennifer. Soon after ending his marriage, Jennifer died in a car crash. He identified the corpse. Rick left LAPD taking a job with the New Orleans police and remarried Olivia.

While driving during a storm, Rick is involved in an accident that hospitalizes him. He suddenly smells Jennifer¿s sweet perfume and sees her in his hospital room. After being discharged a package containing a death certificate and photos of a woman who looks like Jennifer arrives with a Culver City, California postmark. Deciding he needs to know the truth but conceals from his wife his fear that he is losing his mind, Rick heads to California wondering how she can be alive when he saw her body. At the same he arrives in the Los Angeles area, his last unsolved case at LAPD is reopened as the Twenty-one Killer apparently returns strangling identical twins on their 21st birthday. Bentz knows somehow he is the link, but not by whom or why.

The key to this action-packed suspense thriller is the viewpoint of the Bentz adversary as the audience sees a different perspective as to what happened a dozen years ago and the target of vengeance may be Bentz, but the avenue of achievement is through Olivia. The story line is action-packed from the first time Bentz¿s olfactory sense kicks in and never slows down as the haunting of the sleuth is by someone overflowing with MALICE towards him and his loved ones tales its¿ toll. (see LOST SOULS for his daughter's thriller).

Harriet Klausner

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

highly recommended

I have enjoyed all the Lisa Jackson I've read so far. What I really like about this one is that I'm 90% done w/ the book, and I STILL haven't figured out who dunnit!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Not up to par

Don't get me wrong I love Lisa Jackson's books and Malice was not bad as a story goes. That said, I found this to be a let down after just finishing Lost Souls which I loved. I felt like the author couldn't make up her mind what type of book she wanted it to be. A little characture introduction/history at the beginning, 100 or so pages of Bentz seeing his dead ex-wife without much else going on, a little sex scene that wasn't related to the storyline, a little serial killer murder that also had no major impact on the story . . . it was like part of another book got thrown into this one by mistake, then a few murders, and finally the predictable ending. Like the book was written in sections and I found myself getting bored with each section after about 50 pages of it. I think it would have been so much better had each of these events/sections been mixed in together and not so seperated. I kept finding myself saying ok enough allready is anything else going to happen here and then just skimming pages to get to something interesting. Not my favorite of her books but it won't stop me from reading more of hers in the future.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great Read!

This is a great suspense novel, I didn't want to put it down. Lisa Jackson has taken what could be just another suspense novel but added a twist that isn't expected. I strongly recommend it.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A thrill a minute

With an impeccable imagination, great characters and the baddest of bad guys Lisa Jackson gives us one impossible to put down novel.
In Malice we re-visit Rick Benz Lisa's New Orleans detective who she features in many of her books. He's being haunted by his dead first wife, his current wife is keeping a secret and his life is in shambles due to his injury at the end of the book Lost Souls which features Rick's daughter Kristi. Malice was a thrill a minute keep you up til you finish it read, with lots of action, great suspense and a mind boggling mystery for you to figure out.
This book will appeal to all lovers of great mystery, crime or suspense lovers

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

highly recomend

Its a great book so far i have loved all her mystery books i have read several and they are addicting

Another great Lisa Jackson book

Lisa Jackson is one of my favorite authors, have read almost all of her books. Have read all of the New Orleans series except #5 because of the reviews. Malice was a great book & so nice to get away from the whole religious/priest/nun theme for a change.
I highly recommend this one!

Couldn't keep reading it

I have read other Lisa Jackson books and liked her other books in this series but I could not finish this one. It goes on and on and I finally bought a different book as I couldn't stay with this one. Would like to know how it ends but can't force myself to read it.

You must read this book!

This book will keep you on the edge of your seat! You will not be able to put it down!

Not+her+best+work

I+agree+with+most+of+the+other+reviews+in+that+it+dragged+on+and+on.++Could+have+been+150+pgs+shorter.++Just+not+up+to+her+usual+standards.

okay book

i usually like her books and this one was okay, after you got through the endless, and i mean endless, beginning. okay, i got it, he has guilt issues about the first wife, enough all ready. the book really dragged for chapters on end. i just wanted to slap him and tell him to get a grip and appreciate what he has.

My first and most likely my last...

I had high expectatiions for this work due to the number of books this author has had published. I was really disappointed by the wordiness and boring pace of the book. The various plots throughout the piece just didn't fit well. The book was also unnecessarily wordy; it would have been fine with 100 less pages. Not impressed...

A Good Read!

There was quite a bit of intricacy in the story lines to keep me reading more. I definitely wanted to know the killer's identity!

Malice

ONE of her BEST!

Not up to par and I would not recommend it

It took me 3 months to get thru the first 300 pages and I have not managed to finish the book yet. I am a big Lisa Jackson fan but I found this book to be extremely boring. I don't know how it ends and I don't know how long it will take me to actually finish the last several pages but I was very disappointed - definately not up to par compared to all of her other books.

200 pages too long.

Good characters but too long and the killer's monologues were rediculous and annoying.

good read

I enjoyed the book

ok read

nice read

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Loved It

When I started to read his book, I thought it was going to be a dull book. Let's just say i was wrong. I gave this to my other after i read read and she passed it on to my aunt and they both enjoyed it... It only took me a day to read it....