Should Be Dead
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Valkyrie Smith should be dead. None of the killer's other victims have survived. Yet somehow, after spending two long nights trapped at the bottom of a dry well with a broken back, Valkyrie miraculously came through. She lost everything that night: her husband, her son, her dreams. Lying at the bottom of that well, staring up at a tiny circle of sky and waiting for the killer to find her and finish the job at any moment, Val lost one more thing: She lost her fear. The doctors told her she might never walk again, but Val refused to give up. After years of rehabilitation and relentless determination, Valkyrie regained her mobility. She didn't stop there. Valkyrie went on to take training in self defense and firearms, and developed a strategy to track down the killer. She dedicated her life to bringing him to justice. She walked away from her past forever, and began moving from to town to town in search of the man who had slaughtered her family. Now, after a series of missed opportunities, Valkyrie finally has her chance. An anonymous phone call informs her that the man she has been hunting has surfaced again in Sequoia County, a rural California landscape of redwood forests, vineyards, and isolated coastlines. Valkyrie knows it could be a trap. She doesn't care. Armed with her skills, her intellect, and her determination, Valkyrie heads straight into the heart of danger. She thinks she's prepared for anything. She's wrong.
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1 primary bookValkyrie Smith is a 1-book series first released in 2015 with contributions by Jeramy Gates.
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Should Be Dead overall is a good book. It's a good read for an ebook you can buy for free on Amazon.
That said, it can have spots that contextually don't fare well with the plot.
Posing as a federal agent is one thing, but using your real name on the fake documents especially since you were a victim yourself, is like asking to get caught. The book never specifically mentions a time period where this took place, but due to the mentions of Google Maps and Kindle, it seems like this would've taken place around post-2007 and pre-2012, which would be harder for Valkyrie to even pose as a federal agent without being found out pretty quickly. Of course, it is a smaller county, so I can't be too critical of why Val decided to do that, but it was a risky play altogether.
I love how graphic and detailed certain sections of the book were. The murder scene you see around the beginning of the book, maybe Chapter 2 or 3, is so detailed that you could kind of imagine stepping into that scene as Deputy Sherrif Kinney. It gives you an idea of how messed up Odin and Loki, the serial killers, are.
