MWSA Review

Someone is making calls in the dead of night to Jackie’s phone, but not speaking. Someone is writing her poems, with no signature. Someone is opening doors and moving objects around in the house while she is gone, but nothing stolen, and there’s no sign of a break-in. Dawn Brotherton’s The Obsession will keep you guessing the stalker’s identity, and your supposition will probably be wrong.

Jackie Austin’s life was going reasonably well. She finished up her missile training and was assigned her first duty station at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Her only regret was that her boyfriend was assigned elsewhere, and the long-distance romance was not working out. Against her domineering father’s wishes, she purchased her first house—one hundred years old, with repairs to match its age. Between the renovation projects and her job as a missile officer, she does not need this additional stress. Against this backdrop, there have been several violent murders across the state, and the local police departments have no clues in these cases.

Out of the blue, Jackie is given a one-year assignment to Osan Air Base in Korea as an A-10 squadron section commander. Considering all that had happened in Missouri, she welcomes the break. Life with fighter pilots proved to be an adventure with some rewarding outcomes.  

A follow-on assignment to Langley Air Force Base has her bumping into old acquaintances from Whiteman and making new friends.  Then the calls begin again.  Jackie knows she must confront the tormentor once and for all—if she can figure out who it is.

The Obsession is a fast-moving read with some rather interesting twists and turns.

Review by Sandi Cathcart (March 2020)

Author's Synopsis

When the phone calls began in the dead of the night, Jackie chalked them up to a prank caller. She'd had her share of harassment during Air Force missile training, but she had rolled with it. Now when she noticed changes around her house she hadn’t made and unsigned love letters began arriving, she knew she needed to worry. Was she paranoid, going crazy, or were the guys at work not getting the message that she wasn’t interested?

In the neighboring town of Sedalia, a more ominous situation was stirring. The unexplained death of yet another young, single woman had the police on alert. Same MO, different small town. It was only a matter of time before the killer found his next victim.

ISBN/ASIN: B004J8HTH6
ISBN: 978-1-939696-93-9 , 978-1-939696-33-5, 978-1-939696-15-1
Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle, ePub/iBook, Audiobook
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 284