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The Body Counter Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 2 edition by Anne Frasier Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

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The Body Counter Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 2 edition by Anne Frasier Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

“Jude is a puzzle”, a fascinating psychological presentation of a character coming back to herself after years in captivity! Jude was tortured, raped and kept in a dark box in a basement for three years. That’s messed her up, of course, but also given her the gift of heightened perception when listening to other people. Her heart is filled with sorrow, pain, and fear, PTSD for sure, but a wonderful empathy for victims as well. Jude was and is a good homicide Detective. Famous, yes, for more backstory than this!

Jude’s partner, Uriah Ashby, is the Head Homicide Detective, and he is also a little messed up. His wife committed suicide, he blames himself, and he gets horrible migraines. Then there is the neighbor below her, Elliot, who has to bang on the ceiling to stop her from screaming during her nightmares. In spite of all this going on, Jude and Uriah make a great deductive pair. The case they are trying to solve involves a strange mathematical sequence and Manson-like murders.

The suspense is wrapped up with emotion and twists to the storyline. Complex and brilliantly imaginative, these characters will stay with you for a while. Stands alone well, with unexpected surprises at the end.


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The Body Counter Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 2 edition by Anne Frasier Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

I was fascinated by the first book in this series and was delighted to know there were more books coming. This story didn’t disappoint! And thank heavens there is another book to come - I can’t wait to find out what happens next!
After reading the Body Reader, all I thought was I wish this were a series. Thankfully the author thought the same thing! In this book you see Jude becoming more human after her tragedy in book one. It was also nice to see how her relationship with Uriah has evolved. Loved the twist with the introduction of the character Elliott. Definitely will be reading whatever other books the author has in this series!
This is the follow-up to The Body Reader by Anne Frasier which won the Thriller Award. I think it is Anne Frasier's best that I have read so far. The story continues with the haunting past of Detective Jude Fontaine as she tries to solve the brutal murders of a group of serial killers in the Minneapolis area. I have always loved Anne Frasier's mysteries because I cannot figure "who done it" until the very end. This book has many layers of mystery, right up to the very end. Rumor has it that there is going to be a third book in the series. I sure hope so, and I can't wait.
(minor spoiler in brackets below)

A disappointing continuation, The Body Counter suffers the same issues as the first book (poor crime solving, chaotic pacing at the end) without the benefit of the interesting introduction and characterization of our MC.

The main side plots in this one involve Jude's handling of "the house" and the inclusion of a new neighbor. While the murders are interesting in-themselves, the solution was very unsatisfactory. In fact after a large amount of unproductive leads that paint the killer as a mastermind, [the killer is easily found by a random crazy guy randomly remembering a random poorly-explained coincidence that may/may-not be related, but is actually 100% accurate].

Add to that the detectives suddenly deciding (for no explained reason) that the mastermind was actually a pawn... but of course none of this is ever explained since the real mastermind meets an untimely end.
Anne Frazier delivers in the Body Reader and now The Body Counter. I could not put the book down once I started, first one, then the other. Jude is an unlikely heroine but she is that, rather than a victim, which she certainly was. She and Uriah are both affected by their own stories and yet sympathetic partners. I’m eagerly anticipating book three.
Good story until the end. Don't have to read the first book to enjoy this one, but a lot of character development is in the first book. This book is not nearly as good as the first, however.

I was very surprised to find out Anne Frasier lives up north because she made a couple of big mistakes about MN. In the beginning of this book, she wrote about drinking soda. People up north don't drink soda, they drink pop. She later stated the Mississippi River starts at Lake Itaska and not as a creek. That is absolutely false. The Mississippi River starts as a creek coming out of the ground in Itaska State Park. I was born in Minneapolis and lived there until I went to college in Bemidji, MN. I walked across the creek, the headwaters of the Mississippi, where it was less than a foot wide, in 1979 when I was in college.

I understand this is a work of fiction, but she wrote accurately about the lakes and other areas in Minneapolis. There was no need for her to write about the head of the Mississippi in the book, let alone specifically give bad information about it. The majority of people who read this book won't have any idea that she's written false information about this great river in our nation and they'll believe it's true and may pass on this untruth to others.
I don't remember learning about the Fibonacci sequence in high school or college math, but it's certainly a unique murder method. The sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...and so on, so the killer/s are aiming for a high body count. The murders are grisly, and seem to get more so with each crime scene. I did appreciate that it was specifically pointed out how the brutal crime scenes affected the investigators/first responders, I've read other books where the characters are hardly fazed and it seems unrealistic to me.

Jude's character growth is slow but steady, she's not healed, but she has moments of normalcy. Her abduction experience seems to have made her more sensitive and empathetic. But she's still battling her demons (she can't resist returning to the house where she was held captive), she isn't able to put the past behind her yet, though she does take some steps. She and Uriah make a good team, they depend on each other a great deal, but at the same time don't expect more from the other than they're willing to give.

While the book doesn't end on a cliffhanger, there's some very interesting information revealed at the end, and it has me anxious for the next installment!
“Jude is a puzzle”, a fascinating psychological presentation of a character coming back to herself after years in captivity! Jude was tortured, raped and kept in a dark box in a basement for three years. That’s messed her up, of course, but also given her the gift of heightened perception when listening to other people. Her heart is filled with sorrow, pain, and fear, PTSD for sure, but a wonderful empathy for victims as well. Jude was and is a good homicide Detective. Famous, yes, for more backstory than this!

Jude’s partner, Uriah Ashby, is the Head Homicide Detective, and he is also a little messed up. His wife committed suicide, he blames himself, and he gets horrible migraines. Then there is the neighbor below her, Elliot, who has to bang on the ceiling to stop her from screaming during her nightmares. In spite of all this going on, Jude and Uriah make a great deductive pair. The case they are trying to solve involves a strange mathematical sequence and Manson-like murders.

The suspense is wrapped up with emotion and twists to the storyline. Complex and brilliantly imaginative, these characters will stay with you for a while. Stands alone well, with unexpected surprises at the end.