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Reviewed by Alma Boucher for Readers' Favorite
In A Patient Enemy, a suspense thriller by S.E. Greco, seven years ago, after three of his associates came up with a scheme to betray him, Alexander Zola, a master criminal, was presumed dead. Along with being an avid art enthusiast, Zola inherited The Maiden With a Basket, one of Johannes Vermeer's paintings. When Pamela Damler hired freshly licensed private investigator Harvey Grace to look for her missing husband, it seemed like a standard case of an art professor going on a drinking binge. But when Harvey heard that Pamela's husband had lately found a painting that may be a long-lost Vermeer, valued at a modest fortune, he started to question Pamela's intentions. Harvey was also unaware that shortly after Pamela's husband vanished, an unidentified corpse was recovered near Lake George, many miles away.
S.E. Greco's murder thriller, A Patient Enemy, was an exhilarating roller coaster that had me hooked from the start. It was hard to put this book down because it was a page-turner and fast-paced. It was exciting to try to predict how each plot thread would unfold toward the conclusion, and I was guessing until the end. All the twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat, wanting to know what was going to happen next. In this intricate story about the art world, the characters were real, relatable, and not always what they seemed. Harvey's first case had a master criminal who might or might not be dead, a missing husband, and a valuable painting. I was surprised by the ending because it was so expertly written and everything fitted together perfectly.
