Retribution - Jillianne Hoffman

This is the first book I've read by Jilliane Hoffman and I'm so glad I came across it as it's one of the best in it's genre. The book hooked in me from the start. The first section of the book was quite horrific and it dives right in which left me feeling genuinely scared and horrified. It tells of a young woman in an apartment alone when a man ties her up and... well I'll let you read the rest but it's not nice. The way Hoffman details what happens makes you feel extremely uncomfortable and really sets the emotion for the rest of the book. Then the book moves forward twelve years following Miami State Attorney Chloe "C.J." Townsend ...  Read the complete review

Chloe Larson is studying for her final law exams in New York City when she is brutally raped by a man who seemingly knows everything about her life, from where she spends each evening down to her favourite perfume. Twelve years later she is known as CJ Townsend and is living in Florida, one of Dade County's top prosecutors, working in a team trying to catch a serial killer who has been abducting, raping and mutilating young women. When an arrest is made her world is turned upside down; CJ is convinced that the man who stands accused is the man who raped her in New York. What follows is part courtroom drama, part police procedural thriller with CJ having to ...  Read the complete review