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Abby Sinclair is nobody's victim. The one thing she hates most in life is being used as a pawn in someone's sick game, which is what is about to happen in Michael Prescott's FINAL SINS. Abby is a security consultant with a special expertise in dealing with stalkers. She knows what makes them tick and how to deal with them. Abby does not mess around when it comes to dealing with these predators and will do everything in her power, legal or not, to stop them. She has clashed with law enforcement often enough, rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. Among them is FBI agent Tess McCallum, a woman with whom she has reluctantly teamed up in previous novels (DANGEROUS GAMES and MORTAL FAULTS). They might not like each other, but they begrudgingly respect each other. Ten years ago, artist Peter Faust was convicted of strangling a young woman. He has already served his required time at a German prison and is has become a celebrity living in Hollywood, California. He's in a town where people have short-term memories and having a criminal record is a show of prestige. Faust hires Abby Sinclair to protect his model girlfriend from a stalker. Abby is repulsed by this killer, but she fears for the woman. Eventually things become messy, where things are not what seem, and Abby is on the run from the FBI. Tess McCallum thought she knew Abby, but believes that this time she has gone too far. She is in charge of capturing her. This event could terminate their 'friendship' once and for all. FINAL SINS is formulaic with a made-for-TV-movie feel and is hard to take too seriously. The story uses tired clichés when it comes to men's reactions of being bested by a woman. Abby is also a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown and her erratic behavior throughout the book is poorly managed. Tess, once again, is unconvincing as an FBI agent. There is nothing new here. It has come to the point that if you've read one Michael Prescott novel, you've read them all.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, May 2007
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