When Paige's rich husband, who is many years her senior, dies her step-children jump to question the will he supposedly made. Everything is left to Paige and the children are anything but happy about it. This is where Claudia comes in, her job is to check the authenticity of the signature on the will to see if it really is the old man's. Claudia soon finds herself being roped into this case in a personal way, a way she knows is bad for what she does. She has come to like a young student at the Academy (the one in the will) and soon finds that perhaps she likes this girl and is watching out for her too much. When she gets kidnapped Claudia is ever the helpful adult that this child is lacking, but is there more to this teens story than she is telling? When it comes to life and death, will Claudia get the outcome she is trying to achieve?I found this book to be a bit better than the first in the series. However, I still didn't love it. I did love the characters and the concepts behind the plot though. I found those things to be interesting enough for me to keep reading on in the book. I thought it was a bit like the first book, in that it could be a bit wordy at times, which took away from the suspense of it all. I have read lots of reviews when I was deciding to read this book or not and there were lots of glowing reviews, personally I just didn't see where they came from. Don't get me wrong, the book was good and I did read it and finish it, but I didn't think it was a great read that will have me looking forward to reading on in the series. Perhaps it just wasn't what I thought it would be, or maybe I just was in the wrong mood when I picked it up to read it. Like I said, the characters were great and perhaps were the main thing that kept me going in this book. It was not all bad, or I would not have continued reading it after all. Just not my favorite book.3/5 Stars The second in the series is more complicated than the first but just as good. There are a few "TSTL" moments but not so many as to make the book awful, just enough to make it noticeable. This one centers around private schools, dead multimillionaires and a child neglected by an indifferent Hollywood mogul father. Lots of twists and turns, a little less emphasis on the forensic handwriting analysis than in the first book, and a lot of tension and suspense.I'll keep reading this series.
What do You think about Written In Blood (2008)?
Nice follow on to Poison Pen. Will definitely read the next one, whenever it comes out.
—ffgirl24
Written In Blood: A Forensic Handwriting Mystery by Sheila Lowe (2008)
—Dhruva
a totally fun read about using handwriting to solve crimes
—rockyturok
