The Endings Series: Book 4
Publication Date: September 17, 2024
Her life is over . . . yet somehow she carries on
After attempting to sever all ties to her life as a hired assassin, a woman struggles to understand who she has become. She knows she doesn’t want to kill again–but it proves to be a difficult habit to break, particularly in a world where people are after her and those she loves most.
Adrift and disconnected, she meets an old woman: Imogen O’Brien, a world-famous artist who has spent the last three decades living a hermit-like existence on a rustic desert estate in a national forest. Imogen invites her to stay and work for her, offering mentorship in return as the woman deepens her own interest in art.
What quickly becomes apparent is that elements of Imogen’s past are shrouded in danger, sorrow, and darkness. Rather than growing as an artist, the former hitwoman soon finds herself enmeshed in a dangerous mystery with strands that stretch decades into the past.
For most readers, the main character of a story often elicits an emotional connection. However, what happens if the protagonist happens to be a female contract killer?
Author Linda L. Richards serves up Insensible Loss, a first-person narrative in which the unnamed main character is searching for something that even she can’t define.
Her introspective attitude takes a turn when she encounters a reclusive artist dealing with her own personal struggles. As the fourth installment of The Endings series, the story adds more context to the unnamed narrator.
While previous installments may have featured more action, the majority of this storyline focuses on a deep dive into the main character’s thought process, tracing the evolution from typical mom to contract killer. It was interesting to explore attachment theory through the narrator’s perspective.
Ultimately, Insensible Loss makes readers ponder how much loss and sadness a person can take before being changed at a fundamental level.
Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of over a dozen books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. New for 2024: INSENSIBLE LOSS, the fourth book in the Endings series featuring a reluctant hit woman struggling towards the light. Linda’s 2021 novel, the first in this series, ENDINGS, was recently optioned by a major studio for series production. Richards is an accomplished horsewoman and an avid tennis player, and is on the National Board of Sisters in Crime.
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