Redemption
By C.J. Barry
Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Forever Books
Grand Central Publishing
e-book for review from NetGalley
paranormal mystery
on amazon: kindle $2.99
paperback $15.30
336 pages
published: Oct. 1, 2013
Reya is a Redeemer trying to earn her way into heaven. Not an easy job for someone seeking redemption. She’d been to hell and no way does she want to go back. She seeks the light and its safety. Her mission is to ask those who have numerous sins if they are sorry for the pain and misery they have caused. Seems the wealthy and powerful businessmen she is assigned to approach feel they haven’t done wrong, as that’s what it takes to earn your rightful place in the commercial world. Unfortunately, they’re wrong.
Detective Thane Driscoll had just landed himself in an allegation of misconduct case regarding the death of a child molester. His reputation survives, but he’s on Probation. Now he has something of a paranormal mystery to deal with. There’s been a number of “suspicious deaths” of obvious rotten human beings. According to surveillance cameras one woman has been present at the time of their deaths. Now they just have to find her, which is a bit difficult as she disappears in thin air.
Trying to get him off her path so she can continue on with her work, she allows him to question her. Things only get more complicated when she learns she has to protect him, that he’s special on the game board of good and evil. Together they seek out a deadly soul determined to take control of a prized possession. He doesn’t care who he has to kill to achieve his mission.
Redemption was a book I couldn’t put down. I loved the characters and I could understand their nearly impossible mission to overcome. The possibility of other dimensions and Earth’s energy source intrigued me. What’s decided in heaven creating the framework of our lives on Earth is believable. I can easily see this book adapted into a great paranormal adventure on the big screen. I hope C.J. has a sequel for this book in the near future.
Five redeemers out of five
Denise Fleischer
Author of Deadly Reservations
Gottawritenetwork.wordpress.com
January 2, 2014