Dear Clean Burn,

(Disclaimer: I received an eARC copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.)

Wow!  I mean can I just say that again without being too redundant?

%$&*ing WOW!

You were not an easy book to read.  Not because you weren’t written well or because your dialogue was clunky, character descriptions weak, or were, in any way, a bad book.

You were a #$%^king amazing book!

You were hard to read because… HOLY @#$% did you put your characters through hell!

Not since Val McDermid’s Tony Hill have I read a mystery where the main character was as tortured as Janelle Watkins is.  At times, I didn’t know if I wanted to hug, punch, drive her to a hospital, or just leave her at the train station with some money and a promise never to come the hell back to town!

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a mystery novel.  For the past couple of years, I’ve all been about the Sci-Fi.  However, I wanted to see what Angry Robot’s Exhibit A’s imprint was going to do with their foray into the world of mystery was and…

…man, Clean Burn, you delivered the goods!

I am in awe (and a little bit scared) of you.  And I promise I will be back for the second go around.

Now go talk to someone about your pyromania.