The Garden Girls by Jessica R. Patch Review

The Garden Girls is another intense, engrossing, awesome book by Jessica R. Patch. I could not put it down. Especially towards the end. So many twists. So many candidates for who the villain could be, that we are introduced to as the team investigates. The author really makes you want to focus on one person, while wondering if perhaps it was that other one, when then throwing in another one, and then concluding with a complete twist. I have to say, it sort of made me feel like a puppet, just like the villain told Tiberius, one of the FBI agents, he was. 

Tiberius, or Ty, is part of the Strange Crimes Unit of the FBI. This team is the same team featured in the first two books of the series; however this story is focusing on Tiberius. We see the story from multiple points of view. The two main points of view are Ty's and Bexley's, whose sister is missing and feared to be one of the women the villain has, plus the killer and one of the kidnapped women, though we don't know for sure who she is until close to the end of the book. 

I was quite intrigued by the premise of the book. This serial killer is tattooing women who have flower names with those flowers, and then he leaves their bodies at different lighthouses. As you continue reading you realize how deranged this killer is. 

I love the way there was a hurricane drawing near, ratching up the tension, the case NEEDED to get solved before they lost all their leads when the hurricane made landfall. But in addition to that, she used the storm imagery for the situation they found themselves in, trying to find the killer that was kidnapping young ladies with flower names and tattooing their bodies with the flowers.

And like the previous books, the author made it personal to the agents.

Plus faith played a huge role. From showing the devestation of a cult and how it can skew one's understanding on what a real relationship with Jesus should look like, to showing a true relationship with Jesus.