All In
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Reading
- Try reading together or checking in after the opening case is established. This gives you a chance to gauge the mystery’s intensity before deciding whether to continue independently.
- Themes
- Investigation and profiling: Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals use their profiling talents to investigate murders with an unusual pattern. The case places profiling and collaborative investigation at the centre, but the plot outline does not show how their methods are evaluated.
- Murder mystery: The investigation links victims through numbers tattooed on their wrists; differing methods and missing security footage complicate the case. The premise combines violent crime with a clue-solving puzzle, but the outline does not establish how graphic the full scenes are or how the mystery ends.
- Worth knowing
- The central case involves brutal murders, victims killed in public and growing danger for the investigators. A parent may want to consider how their reader responds to fictional murder mysteries.