Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption by Robert Fate

[Amra Pajalic]

I first discovered Robert Fate via a Spinetingler review and have been enjoying the series since. In this latest installment Kristin and her partner Otis are at work on a strange case that seems to throw a curve ball at every turn.

In this latest installment Fate peels back the psychological layers. Kristin's identity as Baby Shark was forged during a brutal rape and the murder of her father. Since then she's taken revenge on her attackers and discovered a new life as a private investigator.

In her development as a private investigator she's learnt many skills-most of them concerned with how to kill a man in different ways. What I enjoyed most was the personal conflict as she tries to reconcile the person she was with the person she has become. She questions if she is different to the people she is hunting. She is starting to realise that the choices she made means it is becoming impossible for her to live any sort of a normal life. Although I wonder if she would want to anyway. Normal is way overrated.

While the core of this latest installment has heart, Fate still keeps the thrills and spills coming as the action pumps across the page. Well worth reading and if you haven't discovered Robert Fate before, go back to the beginning. Here's what I had to say about the previous book.