Allreaders.com
Author Tami Hoag booklist (click here)

Book Review By Kandi Bouldin
Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag

Cry Wolf is a murder mystery about a young lawyer who has fled her job and life in Georgia after losing a career shattering case.. Laurael Chandler has returned to her Louisian Bayou roots to regroup, only to find that a killer has taken to murdering young women of questionable reputations. Laurel is confronted by Jack Boudreax, an ex-lawyer turned fiction writer. She and Jack are thrust into a heated affair.
    After Laurel's own sister is missing, she begins to question odd trinkets that have been placed for her to find. It's as if the killer is beckoning her to find him. Jack is, of course, suspect number one, because whomever has killed the young women in this small town and adjacent towns decided to use Jack's murder scenes as a model for his own. Now Laurel has to prove Jack's innocence while she searches for justice.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 30%
Murder of certain profession?
Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - Big focus on forensic evidence
Kind of investigator
Any non-mystery subplot?
descript. of violence and chases - 10 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - lawyer creatures
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
Forest? Yes
Water? Yes
Water: - sail boat - drowning
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - dumb rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity - rape (yeech!)
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
Back To Main Menu