Rain Girl

Franza Oberwieser, Book 1

By: Gabi Kreslehner, Lee Chadeayne - translator

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Veteran homicide detective Franza Oberwieser prefers her job in the winter. Summer is for growing, not for dying. So when the body of a beautiful young woman is found on the autobahn, dressed in a glittering party dress and bathed in June rain, Franza is determined to give her justice.

Revealing victims’ hidden lives is part of the job, but as Franza and her partner, Felix, peel back the layers shrouding the girl’s disturbing past, darker mysteries emerge. Everyone has something to hide - even Franza, who must face her own secrets to reveal the truth.

©2014 Gabi Kreslehner (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. English translation © 2014 by Lee Chadeayne.

Marie the unknown girl.

The tale of a girl who was killed on the autoban on a rainy night. Interesting characters with very complicated lives at work and at home. The mystery kept my interest and had many surprises through out the story.

Scary

Starts off slowly, then gets better in the middle. Does a good job of depicting the killer losing a grip on things. Turned out better than I thought it would.

Hard to follow

I had to push myself to finish it. There are references to people and situations that are never explained. I kept thinking that I missed a prior book in the series but there isn't any. It doesn't flow.

Very hard to follow

Had a hard time following and really wanted to stop multiple times. Overall the ending was ok but still very confusing and hard to follow.

Okay mystery but....

There are just so many coincidences one can accept when it comes to mysteries. This book, though reasonably well written, had too many large coincidences. The translation was generally good, but occasionally not.