Borderline Insanity

Today Borderline Insanity by Jeff Miller is released - I really enjoyed this book, and give it a solid 4 stars.   I received a galley of this fantastic thriller through Net Galley, in exchange for an unbiased review.  

This is my first time reading Jeff Miller's work, and I instantly became a fan.  

This thriller pulls the reader in from the first chapter, and sets up the characters that will come together to discover and ultimately solve a mass murder of young Mexican immigrants.  The story has a unique pacing, giving a lot of detail in the discovery, detective work and forensics used to find a killer. 

Dagny Gray is the driven FBI agent who is struggling with anorexia and the forced therapy she attends as a condition of her employment.  The therapy sessions work well to give the reader insight, making Dagny a more multidimentional character than we would get with a typical thriller, where the personality of the detectives can seem rather flat unless you've read several books in the series.

The murders in this novel are set in a semi-rural town in Ohio, and Miller also gets the small town feel correct.  There are so many details in this book, and they are what push Borderline Insanity into the best kind of thriller - one where the reader is flipping pages to get to the end - but also ultimately cares for the characters and wants to read more to learn what happens in the next chapter.  

Drink pairing with this one...Vodka water - because then Dagny doesn't have to worry about the calories as she sips and ponders.