Record of Blood

Ravenwood Mysteries Series, Book 3

By: Sabrina Flynn

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

An honorable man with a bloody past he can only remember in part, and a woman dead in the eyes of the world, but all too alive.

A confessed murderer and a missing body lures Isobel Kingston into the night, but she finds far more than she bargains for on the foggy dunes. Ambushed and rendered unconscious, she wakes to find herself at the mercy of brutal men. Desperate, she plays her last card: she threatens her captors with the wrath of Atticus Riot. To her surprise, Riot's very name strikes terror into the men, and Isobel begins to wonder what she really knows about the enigmatic man.

As Atticus Riot searches for Isobel, regret hounds his every step, and the voice of his dead partner, Zephaniah Ravenwood, pulls him into the past, making him look at events long buried and uncover truths that he's tried hard to forget. When Isobel's trail leads to an old enemy, he's forced to confront his nightmares, and the aching truth that he isn't the man he thought he was.

©2017 Sabrina Flynn (P)2018 Tantor

A Bit Confusing

I found this installment a bit challenging as an Audiobook. I got confused with the time-jumping and whether Ravenwood was alive or dead as I listened to the book. The author tied up some loose ends and moved the story of Atticus and Isobel along which was appreciated.

People who care

Riot an Isobel fight to free Chinese child slaves. Riot finds that who he thought killed his partner is not the real killer. It's a good story.

Have ever wanted the main characters to become victims?

I’ve listened/read books where i wish harm to come to the protagonist(s). Mid-story I start hoping the arch-nemesis, serial killer, random accident removes them from the timeline as a surprising plot twist.


[SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWS]

In general, these thoughts surface when a character’s personality or way of being transitions to behaviors in conflict with their past way of being.

I don’t read romance novels or anything touching the border of the genre for many reasons. Near the top of the list is the prescriptive “boy and girl meet” and do not care for each other in chapter 1 and two chapters later they are yearning to be in each other’s company.

THIS is the fatal flaw in this second book of the series. I was expecting the continuation of an intriguing detective mystery set in London in the early 1900s and was quite disappointed.

:::sigh::: I will not read/listen to any other books in the series.
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