14 (Taylor Jackson series #2)

This is the first time I have read a book by this author. This is the type of genre I like the best. After I purchased this book "14", I purchased all the rest of her novels. Also read "Where all the Dead Lie". I am now reading "So Close the Hand of Death" and it's very hard to put it down in order to get some work done. I hope she keeps on writing; I am beginning to run out of authors that I normally read; they just don't write as fast as I can read their novels. I usually go by the synopsis that is on the back of the books. But since there are no book stores by me anymore since Borders closed, I have been purchasing thru Amazon and most of the time their descriptions are to the point and true to the storyline.

Taylor has agreed to marry her FBI boyfriend John Baldwin, but a string of murders may interrupt their plans if not careful. The new string of murders copies the MO of the Snow White serial killer. Snow White has been off the radar for some time, the question is has Snow White returned or is there true a copy cat. Will Taylor and Baldwin make it to the alter? Again their are some very surprising twists to this story, well worth your time to read.

J.T. Ellison has my undivided attention whenever I open one of her books. In "14" the lead character Taylor Jackson is a LT in Nashville, TN homicide. In the midst of sort of planning her wedding, a serial killer from twenty years ago starts killing again and on top of that there is some type of connection between murdered prostitutes and organized crime. Taylor has her hands full and with the aid of her homicide team and her fiancé, FBI profiler, John Baldwin, they put in late nights and face brutal killers. The plot and subplots are terrific (even though they may seem to have been done before), the twisted minds of the criminals, the amazing intelligence and coordination of the homicide team -- all make for a racing read. Pure enjoyment.

If you have to be asleep at a certain time to get up for work, don't pick up "14" by JT Ellison, because you will NOT be going to sleep! In her second (can you believe only her second?!?!) novel, JT Ellison once again takes us to places we may not ever have wanted to go, but makes us want to go there so badly we will risk losing a job to get there! Lieutenant Taylor Jackson leads us intrepidly into the dark side of life in Nashville and New York in pursuit of a serial killer who just CAN'T be back again - or can he? At the same time, in a manner only Ellison could pull off, Taylor is wrestling with family issues and is trying (?) to get married! This blend of Taylor's professional and personal life makes her such a multi-dimensional character that the reader feels as if she is a personal friend. The drama and terror are so well written that this book is best started in the early morning hours, so that it can be finished well before dark. Only two books in, and Ellison has a true fan here. Watch for more from this terrific new author (this is not a paid advertisement, no matter how it sounds!)

this book was a surprise. There were connections within connections. The murders keep coming tied to a killer who had stopped decades before. But these murders are happening now. Besides the copy cat, there seem to be related murders of people who are known but not tied to the original cases. Fast paced, people who are victims and people who are predators but it’s hard to tell which is which and why they are involved.

One of the best mysteries I’ve read in years, by an author whose books I’ve admired for a long time.

Wow it is such a joy to read it murder mysteries so well written. Characters are dementional, the plot flows seamlessly and nothing is given until the proper time. My only complaint is this series is not in the kindle unlimited plan. Lt. Taylor and her intended almost make it to the altar right in the middle of the Snow White killings and the mysterious loss of her father. FBI profiler Baldwin stationed in Tennessee assists and co-leads the search for the killer with his love Lt. Taylor. This is such a great series I cannot believe I have missed it all this time! Dive in. You will be glad you did!

3 and 1/2 stars. I liked this book. It's only as I am writing this that I realized the significance of the title - dooh. I felt a little disjointed, then I realized that I had read them out of order. I'll go back now and read the first novel.

The similarities of the current murders are eerily matched the murders that occurred twenty years earlier. Could it be the same man? What made him quit all those years ago? We discover that the second murderer is a copy cat. All mixed in with the action is Taylor's father, a very rich old man and his strange family and more! I thought the relationship between the copy cat, the old man's daughter and the old man was a huge surprise and very well done. Well written and thought out.

I like mysteries. I like the general idea behind this book. What I couldn't take were the constant sentence structure errors. I found them so distracting that I was correcting the mistakes in my head as I was reading. A 5th grader would fail a book report using grammar this badly. There seemed to be a sentence such as "Taylor sat down, sipped her coffee" on nearly every page. Why not just change the word to "sipping" and have an actual real sentence?

That aside, I enjoyed this book. I found it a little hard to believe, but yet I wanted to know what would happen in the end. I think this author has plenty of potential. I am likely to read the next book in the series out of pure curiosity. I'll give the next one four stars if it's this good and the above mentioned issues are improved.

I like Taylor Jackson, and I like her team. The serial killer they are hunting in this book is suitably creepy. However, I much prefer my thrillers not to stray into bodice ripper territory--and there is a big helping of that here. It's most frequently female mystery writers who are tempted to do this. Maybe it's intended to lure female readers. But whatever the case, I want my thrillers sans graphic sex. Just plain serial murder and mayhem will do nicely for me. I wish Ellison would trust her plot and dispense with her detours into soft porn.

Other than that, I found this book to be pretty exciting, though with a lot of plot threads that were sometimes hard to keep straight. This series reminds me a lot of Cody McFadyen's Smokey Barrett series. It's not yet as good, but it shows a lot of promise.