Melinda's Reviews > Seeds of Malice

Another great read from Dale Meyer. I have now read a few books by this author and they are all very good, very different, and very well researched. This book was part of a series (number 11), but I read it as a standalone and that was totally ok...although I think I might have got more from the book if I knew all the back stories.

Our main character (Fern) is a botanist, acquitted of a crime she didn’t commit, but deeply scarred by the experience and still reeling from all the hate. The real killer was never caught. Fern leaves town to study in another country. When she returns to her ‘normal life’, the killings start again. If its not her (gotta love solid alibis), then who? Should she stay and help the FBI dude or run again?

No more plot give aways here...but this book had the usual cop vs killer vibe. There was action, drama, suspense, plot twists and poignancy and it was fascinating reading all the botanical parts, the way Fern could 'feel' poisons...etc - kudos to the author for bringing that sense of realism to this tale.

This book was a little slower to build up than some of the other books I have read by this author (Into the Abyss, Flynn’s Firecracker), but that was ok. We got lots of character history and a slow burn means the last half of the book was an absolute cracker. Fern had a truly awful background. I think this ugly in her past gave her the strength we reader’s get to see in these pages? Again the fact that our main character is flawed adds depth to the story.

In summary, this is a great addition to this series, a great mix of paranormal, thriller and crime. I enjoyed being back in the work of the Ms Meyer.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.