Review: Seven Minutes Later - Bonnie Kistler

Review: Seven Minutes Later / The Cage - Bonnie Kistler - February 2022


As I started reading this book, it sounded familiar and the character's name Shay Lambert was burned in my memory bank and that's when I did some book research and discovered it had also been titled The Cage and I had tried to read it in September 2022 , but at the time I couldn't push through and it ended up being a DNF. This time, I did manage to finish it but I did see why at the time , I had rated it DNF as it was a slow-paced story and does end up going off in tangents and strange directions. The book starts off with two women in an elevator and the lights go out and the elevator stops. Seven Minutes later, the lights come on and the elevator doors open. Everyone gasps as one of the women are dead with her brains blown out. Shay tells the police how Claudine had a panic attack and took the gun out of her bag and they wrestled with the gun when it went off and killed Claudine. This is the story that Shay Lambert is sticking with. We later discover that Shay worked in the legal department and Claudine was the CEO and that Shay had uncovered evidence of human trafficking and murder within the organisation and was about to whistleblow about it. Of course, if this information got out , a lot of people would be affected - so the company are covering their asses by setting Shay up for murder and pulling out all their stops including about her past and how she lied on her CV and was in prison for fraud.  This was a good locked room trope thrillers, which is one of my favourite tropes but in saying that - only read if you don't mind your thrillers complicated and on the slower side as at times, I did get a little confused with the various storylines and how the characters all interconnected with one another and a small tip to the wise - remember to check different publishing names as you could be reading a book that you had already read or tried another time and not even be aware.

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