The Fields: Riley Fisher Book 1

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Sharp with dark brilliance and a gripping panorama of characters, a detective who will pull you round and break your heart, Erin Young takes us deep into the Fields, dark heart of cruelty, conspiracy, betrayal, a web of lies, secrets and love. A world you don't want to leave, an all out, edge of your seat thriller you can't put down This book is dubbed as a debut crime thriller for the author, but please note that she also writes under Robyn Young and has written quite a few historical fiction books. It is no wonder that the writing is very polished and well done in this book. Young has honed her craft and it shows. Aside from my very obvious terror, this book was really good in a literary sense too. The characters, setting and plot were all written well, and I actually really loved the writing. It was gritty and intense, but there were some lyrical flourishes along the way that stood out to me unexpectedly.

I liked the characterization of heroine and her traumatic past story but I wish the book was told from her perspective with less characters more action scenes. IT STARTS WITH A BODY-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. Growing up, Young’s best subject was English, and she thought she wanted to be a music journalist. She even tried her hand at it in high school and while getting her degree at Exeter College. This is a good start to series. I liked Riley a lot and look forward to learning more about her in the next installment. This was promising debut with blood freezing and intense opening: a brutally killed young woman lying in the corn field, discovered by drones flying around the area like vultures sniffing the smell of their preys.Murder, politics, family secrets, an iconic main character, and a fiendish plot. What's not to love?' Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of Blood & Sugar Book #1 is off to a good start, and I am curious what she will have Riley investigating in future books. I just hope the next book has fewer characters. These women - Chloe, Nicole, Gracie - they were under her skin, occupying her waking thoughts and her dreams. They’d become part of her: their violent deaths and lost lives.

It’s August 2018 and I’m on a plane—heading for a destination chosen by little more than a pin in a map. Congratulations to Erin Young for writing a brilliant debut novel. There is no doubt in my mind that the Riley Fisher series and Erin Young will soon be household names. I absolutely cannot wait to read more of this series. I highly recommend The Fields to fans of dark, twisty, crime/detective novels. This book would be perfect for fans of Tana French’s The Dublin Murder Squad series particularly The Likeness and The Dry by Jane Harper. Before we get started, can I just say that I find corn fields to be terrifying. There's just something about them; I can't. Who knows what is lurking in there...

Logan was cool, I didn’t care about him that much but he was a good, strong character. He was written really well and I liked his mindset. I was drawn into how he worked so well with Riley. Whips along at an incredible pace and it left me breathless... both a brilliantly imagined police procedural and a nightmarish horror story

There was potential in the story, I originally thought it might have been inspired by the murder of Mollie Tibbetts a few years ago, but it gets bogged down with political intrigue over seed technology, Big Ag, and more talk of corn than I had in my high school environmental science class. THE FIELDS has been published in North America and Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Taiwan. After the murders start to occur, some of the politicians try to benefit them for upcoming elections. Since finishing Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series several years ago, I've been on the lookout for a similar series and I've finally found it with The Fields(Riley Fisher #1, series). At 30% I'm throwing this on the DNF pile!!! There is so much I don't like about this book. I certainly wouldn't call it "beautifully written and masterfully crafted". By 30% I was just really annoyed with it and knew it wasn't a book for me.

The Fields

Riley is an interesting character. She is flawed and the book hints at her past and Riley does not want it to come out. The is the first book in the series and I believe there will be more character development and growth in future books. The identity of the culprit was a little obvious. There was no big surprise or earth shattering revelation. Murder, politics, family secrets, an iconic main character, and a fiendish plot. What’s not to love?’ Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of Blood & Sugar Riley dives deep into this investigation. After all, it's personal and soon finds herself in a dangerous world of politics and very big business. Not a comfortable place to be by any means.