Play Dead by Anne Frasier

With her newest novel, Anne Frasier will really take your breath away... Watch your back, Elise. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor-and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growing up, she was haunted by her possible connection to the local Gullah culture-with its spells and voodoo. Now, however, there's a twisted killer on the loose, and the city is gripped by terror. Someone is using a substance that leaves its victims in a state that mimics death. As their bodies slip into an irreversible paralysis, their minds remain fully, shockingly awake. Before you wake up dead. Step by step, Elise's relentless chase for the killer draws her straight back into the world she most fears. And now, to stop a murderer, she must confront the truth about her own past in ways she never could have imagined...

This was a very quick, fast-paced and thrilling read.

Elise Sandburg and David Gould are detectives in Savannah, Georgia. When they get a case of the dead rising they start digging into the deep dark past of the city and it's residents. How are these corpses coming back to life? Someone is using a drug to simulate death in the victims. But who?

I read this book very quickly. I would start reading and before I knew it I had read 100 pages. Frasier does a fantastic job of keeping you enthralled in the story from the very first chapter. It is a great mystery with supernatural undertones. It kept me on my toes. At one point I thought I had it all completely figured out but then it threw in another curve ball and took me by surprise.

The writing is good, not profound but it keeps you interested. The main characters are a bit one-dimensional. I still felt myself caring about them though. I liked the fact that their lives are laid out, piece by piece throughout the story. I only wish Frasier would have went a bit more detailed with the mystery surrounding one of the other major characters.

My biggest disappointment of the book was that it was not at all creepy to me. I never got that chill down my spine or felt like someone was watching me, which is what I expected from all the blurbs about the book. Maybe it's because I read so many mystery/thriller/supernatural books that this one seemed tame.
Either way, I recommend this book if you like a fast, fun, mystery/thrillers.

4 out of 5 stars

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