Intimate Relations A Finn O'Brien Crime Thriller
Legal Thriller/Pulp Fiction
Wolfpack Publishing
May 5, 2021
286
A woman in a window. A cop out of his element. A crime of unimaginable passion.
It's two in the morning when a domestic disturbance brings Finn O'Brien to an artists' colony on the frayed edges of the City of Angels. Housed in an abandoned brewery, the concrete fortress looms like a dystopian portal to hell. Inside the detective finds a bizarre gathering of Los Angeles elites, a man in a rage, and a young woman beaten to death, her face obliterated.
As he hunts a killer, Finn finds himself in a surreal world where art and science create strange bedfellows, money and desire birth shameful descendants, and the deadliest relationships of all are the most intimate.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
My first book in this series but not my first book by this author. I liked Finn and his partner Cori from the start and enjoyed watching as they worked together to solve a murder. Los Angeles, the City of Angels, a place far from heavenly and when Finn and Cori are called to a domestic disturbance in the wee hours of the morning, they have no idea what they will be walking in on.
Finn and Cori have been temporarily reassigned to East LA due to protests and money problems and they both hope that this reassignment will be over soon but they have a case at an artist’s community at the Brewery where a fight broke out between the owner of the apartment and an Asian gentleman and upon entering the premises, they have no idea if someone was injured or dead. A walk through proves shocking when Finn and Cori find themselves surrounded by body parts only to discover that they are all fake and are part of the owner’s business of making companion dolls so lifelike they seem real. Further investigation reveals the body of a woman whose face has been crushed in making it hard to know who they are looking at.
Enver Cucas and his wife Emi agreed to have an Asylum party, a party for people who are sexually adventurous and where the members are men with money and power. The party was with the belief that they would become part of something that would change the world only the death put an end to the party and put these important men on the list of suspects. One of the party goer’s shocked Finn when he comes face to face with his ex-wife Beverly barely dressed and rushing into the room with the dead body threatening to hurt the woman lying there. Finn no longer has feelings for his ex but still doesn’t believe she is the murderer and wants to protect her.
So many suspects, so many alibis and no one covered in the blood of the victim except Enver who claimed he just hugged the corpse and the blood spatter proves that he might be right. Who is the victim, who is the murderer? Finn and Cori have their work cut out for them because till they know who the victim is it is hard to know who might have wanted her dead. What is the victim’s connection with the companion dolls and is there more to Enver and Emi’s involvement with a victim they claim they didn’t know and had no idea she was even there?
It was quite an adventure following Finn and Cori as they began to piece together the mystery surrounding the dead woman and it was a mystery both shocking and surprising. I am a huge fan of mysteries both on TV and in books and if you are like me then you will love this book as you follow leads and get engrossed in the investigation.
