Review: Hit & Run

Hit & Run by Freya Barker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Rosie Perkins has a minimum wage job cleaning a motel in Grand Junction. One night she witnesses a car it and kill a homeless man. Jake Hutchison is a security specialist, hired to provide security for an out-of-control actor starring in a film shooting in Grand Junction. They have orders to do whatever is necessary to keep the film on track, even cover up the manslaughter of a homeless man. Interviewing the staff, Jake is convinced that Rosie knows something, but he is also convinced that she won't report anything to the police, but then it seems someone wants to kill Rosie to cover up the death.

I enjoyed the plot but I did struggle with Jake's morals (as I think he did), being willing to cover up a murder just to ensure a multi-million dollar movie stays on track seems morally bankrupt to me. Also, the way that Jake was willing to intimidate and threaten a woman in a precarious financial position was repugnant.

As you can tell, I struggled with this novel a bit in the beginning, but by the end I was drawn in as much as ever by the characters and the storytelling.

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