The Sex Club by L.J. Sellers

I have to admit, this book surprised me! I am rather passionate about American Crime Fiction and when “The Sex Club” by L.J. Sellers arrived I attacked it with gusto, uncertain of what I’d find between the covers – I certainly wasn’t disappointed. It’s great to get the chance to review an Indie title – I have to make time for more if this is the quality waiting to be read. Available from Amazon.

Forgetting that this is her debut offering, L.J. has without doubt hit the ground running – an intelligent and well delivered plot, a taut narrative and natural dialogue throughout. The novel had me guessing right to the end and despite taking great pride in usually guessing how a book will end; I didn’t get everything right with this one!

Introducing Detective Wade Jackson, the lead character for “The Sex Club”, L.J. Sellers brings us a fallible but likeable cop. He’s not perfect, has little control over his life and has a hard time opening up to people – that is until he meets Kera Kollmorgan, a registered nurse and Youth Outreach Coordinator at Planned Parenthood – a birth control clinic. Slowly but surely he changes.

I found Jackson refreshing and I warmed to his character immediately. He has enough to worry about – estranged from his alcoholic wife and a teenage daughter he doesn’t see enough of, he’s married to his job and works all the hours God sends.

The story begins at a frenetic and powerful pace – A pipe bomb explodes outside the clinic, sending Kera crashing to the floor and while she loses consciousness a patient fights for her life when a piece of glass is imbedded in her neck.

When thirteen year old Jessie leaves the clinic in a hurry, narrowly missing the explosion, and turns up dead in a dumpster just hours later, it brings about unwanted attention to a young Bible Group. Patient confidentiality raises its ugly head and Kera is torn between doing the right thing and respecting her young, but dead, patient.

A second teenager is discovered and the police believe they have a serial killer on the loose.

The characters worked well on the whole and I never once felt L.J. didn’t know where to take them. I found one character annoying but for the sake of spoilers I certainly won’t mention who he or she is!

Full of political intrigue, power struggles, underage sex and psychoticism “The Sex Club” is a thoroughly entertaining and imaginative read. A dynamic recommendation!

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