![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing is compact and suitable to the genre - relating her intriguing matrix of events with a straightforward, assertive, and down-to-earth style most comfortable for fans familiar with the genre. But the author manages these elements well. ![]() Its serial killer has abnormal, almost supernatural abilities its detectives operate openly, clandestinely, and conspiratorially and the imminent disaster goes way beyond any super-human hypnosis that internally melts its victims.ĭiane May has taken on quite a challenge by including so many incredible - incredulity producing - plot elements in her high-energy, fast-moving crime thriller with a twist. And if you limit your expectations, believing this will be your typical street-savvy re-telling of crimes and misadventure, your credibility will suffer. Simply identifying these basics, however, will limit your expectations about how these killings happen, who else happens to be detecting, and how futuristically and globally that imminent disaster looms. The basics may be there: a serial killer killing, a police detective detecting, an imminent disaster waiting in the bushes. To say EVO by Diane May is a contemporary crime thriller is to understate a popular category to which this multi-plotted novel refuses to conform. ![]()
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