Live Bait

Live Bait is written by a mother daughter team under the name of P. J. Tracy, which is part of the reason I wanted to read this book. Live Bait is the sequel to their book Monkeewrench, and has a few books that follow after it. I haven't read Mokeewrench or any of the others after LB, but from the reviews I've read they each have a set of characters and each book has one of them as the main person.

The concept of this murder mystery is very thought provoking, making you ask yourself what is right and wrong, and if an eye for an eye is really how it goes. I felt like I really wanted to get to know the characters, because so much was written about them, but there wasn't much depth to them. Now that I know there are more books to this, that is probably why. But if you take away from the characters you should add to the plot, the mystery, right? I didn't feel like that was done here. The climax was more like a hill than a mountain, and I knew what was going on 5-10 pages before it happened. The book flows pretty smoothly, and I think that is the only reason I finished it, once I realised how un-into the book I was, I noticed that I was almost half way through so I thought what the hell, but every time I sat down to read it I found myself easily distracted.

There is a woman named Grace MacBride that I really liked, and I think there was more explained about her in the first book, so I might eventually order that one and read it, but I'm not sure. I highly doubt I'll read any of the later ones, but part of me wants to see if the team get any better at what their doing. The thing I really liked about LB, is that it had a fairly good ending, especially for a series.