New York City wakes up to another cold and sleepy morning but for NYPD Homicide Detective Alan Smith it's just another day to solve a crime.
A dead body of a old man is found in his own apartment who was brutally stabbed to death.Alan Smith and his partner Alex Hartley is assigned on the case.All the member's of the house had chance and motive to kill the man but they soon narrows down the suspect list to one.But they hit a dead end when their primary suspect is murdered. Alan soon finds out that the man had some secrets from his past which led to his death. Meanwhile the killer is still out there removing clues,and whose true identity is gonna shock them for ever.

People who like long, slow moving books.

I was interested in the book in the beginning because all these were present but then in order to keep the story interesting or make it more interesting, the author made it lesser captivating.

What I really agreed with the author was this quote of Alan Smith:

"All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil, we cannot get the clue by searching for, we have to search for the veil instead.”

There were a lot of grammatical errors in the free digital copy I received which were quite distracting while reading it.

I was kind of getting frustrated with Alex, Alan and the whole story in fact and the reason why it was not proceeding at the pace it required to. Alan and Alex are both detectives from NYPD and they are investigating a murder case and the main suspect that they are trying to catch is killed, they have nothing to lead the case or at least everyone except Alan thought so.

The most unbelievable and irritating thing was Alan's behaviour, at the first, he had observed all the clues and he is confident that he already has a suspect confirmed and he is like, "This case will close quickly. I know the murderer." And then when an event followed, his confidence would vanish and a strange and quick change in his personality took place where he would say "I have no idea who the murderer is." I might not explain this but reading it will make you feel the same way as me.

Get rid of it possibly by writing a review of it quickly.

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ARKOPAUL_DAS is a freelance writer and a student.Born in 1998. .He started writing novellas and short stories from an early age and was always obsessed with books. He is currently working in a crime fiction novel series which is based upon a NYPD detective ,and is more of a police procedural novel. He acquired a lot of inspiration from authors like AGATHA CHRISTIE , LEE CHILD,SHIDNEY SHIELDON ,DAVID BAlDLACCI. He is one young writer! It was published on February 18th 2014 by AMAZON

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