Melissa (Sailing the Greek Isles)'s Reviews > What Remains

Outlier Alert!
I have really liked Walker's books in the past, but there was something about this one that just didn't work for me.

This book starts off with an absolutely intense scenario that captivated me immediately. Elise is a police officer working in the cold case unit with her partner Rowan. She is shopping for towels during a work break and a shooting occurs in the store, and she shoots and kills the perpetrator. She is feeling an immense amount of guilt and wants to track down a man who was right there when it happened in order to clarify whether or not she was justified. But when she find him, things go sideways.

My main issue is that I cannot stand it when someone goes off on their own with an investigation, and it doesn't make it any better that she is a cop. Elise took unnecessary risk after unnecessary risk, even after the danger ramps up. I couldn't get behind her reasoning for this and it just caused me to get more and more annoyed as it progressed.

There is a parallel storyline that is scattered throughout, about an unidentified body found in a "kill room" (used for cremation of animal carcasses after hunting.) I liked how this was integrated with the other situation in the end, but I thought it was kind of clunky getting there at times.

I'll chalk this up to not being one of my favorites from this author because the rogue cop theme rubs me the wrong way. It isn't awful, and many other reviewers have really loved it, so take my review with a grain of salt and form your own opinion.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, all opinions are my own.