MWSA Review

Obsessed by Joe Badal is an apt title for this rip-roaring second book in the Curtis Chronicles series. It is a perfect one-word adjective for the main “bad guy” who was introduced in book one of the Curtis Chronicles. But the adjective might also apply to more than one of the other fascinating characters you’ll meet in this book.

Taking up where we left off in The Motive, we are reacquainted with Lonnie Jackson, a truly evil person, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. However, in Obsessed, there is more than one person obsessed to some degree about killing one or more of the other characters.  In fact, more than once, killers find themselves waiting in line for their turn to rid themselves of their adversaries. 

Badal carefully crafts an ever-increasing level of suspense leading up to an abrupt surprise ending. There are plenty of bodies strewn across the pages of Badal’s latest thriller, but they probably won’t end up being the bodies the reader or the book’s players might have expected. To find out what it all means, you’ll have to pick up your own copy of Obsessed and see how obsessively you’ll flip the pages and then anxiously wait for the next installment.

Review by John Cathcart (May 2020) 

Author's Synopsis

A world-class thriller with non-stop, heart-pounding tension and action, “Obsessed” brings back Matt Curtis and Renee Drummond and their villainous nemesis, Lonnie Jackson. This second installment in Joseph Badal’s The Curtis Chronicles takes the reader from Rio de Janeiro to the mountains of New Mexico to the Mexico/United States border, following a crazed Jackson on his single-minded quest for revenge against the two people he blames for the deaths of his mother and brother and for the destruction of his criminal empire in Hawaii.

ISBN/ASIN: ISBN 978-1987559354, ASIN B07BRFQ9QT
Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 373