Hour Game by David Baldacci

Another Baldacci thriller. Not sure if I liked it or not.

The book starts with one woman dead, and what seems to be a quick and simple case to solve. By the end of the book, 9 more people are dead, and 2 deaths from years ago are figured out. A serial killer is on the loose and intent on wreaking havoc and making people pay. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are private investigators on the case.

At the same time, Sean and Michelle are paid to look into a burglary involving a very powerful family. They know that the man accused of the burglary is innocent, but they don't have time to find out who is guilty before the man is killed...by the serial killer. So what seems to be two unrelated mysteries are suddenly mixed up together.

And mixed up is truly the correct term. There are so many twists and turns and suspicions and theories, that it was very hard to keep everything straight all the time. In the end, both cases are solved, but not in the way you might think.

What I found maddening about this book was that the main character, Sean, would think things through and would discover things but wouldn't let the reader in on the secret. So he would have a theory and give little hints about it, but you don't find out what the theory is until all the characters in the book do. It's just annoying to me when you can sometimes know the thoughts of a character, but when it really matters, you aren't let in on the secret.