Sacred Sins (D.C. Detectives Series #1) by Nora Roberts

Synopsis :

In the unbearable heat of another sultry Washington, D.C., summer, a serial killer is on the loose. Dr. Tess Court, one of the capital's most successful psychiatrists, wants nothing to do with the case--until the police convince her to lend a hand to the lead investigator, legendary ladies' man Detective Ben Paris.

Scarred by his family's history, Ben has even less use for shrinks than Tess has for him--but the forces of animal magnetism and a shared desire to catch the demented criminal known as "The Priest" inexorably erode the walls they've built. They're opposites in so many ways, yet that seems only to fan the flames of attraction for which danger has supplied the spark. To stop a killer who thinks he can absolve sins through murder, Ben will need every ounce of psychological insight Tess can offer him. And she'll need the help of a lawman willing to stare fear in the face if she's going to avoid becoming the madman's next victim.

This is what I say :

It's been a while since I read anything Nora Roberts. 

I do like some of her older titles but I must admit that there's some titles that I don't quite like.  She's basically a romance writer but camouflage her romance stories with fantasy (like The Circle Trilogy and Signs of The Seven Trilogy), thriller (like Angels Fall) and investigation (like in this case).

Sometimes I feel like she's a bit all over the place with what she wrote but having said that, she does have her fair share of fans and I do have a few friends who just love what she wrote.

Sacred Sins was read as an e-book.  It is the first title of the D.C. Detectives Series which currently has only two titles, Sacred Sins and the second book Brazen Virture.  Perhaps the response to the series are not exciting enough for Nora to write a third book since she is pretty keen in having trilogies  in what she wrote.

The thrill of reading such investigative thriller is to 'investigate' along with the characters but in this story, there's no clue whatsoever and I guess it's not meant to be read in that manner so no, I wasn't successful and there was no way anyone would be able to guess who the serial killer was.

Anyway, Scared Sins is not too bad if you just want to chill and relax after a hard days work. In that sense, it delivers.