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All the Pretty Girls is the 2007 debut that launched J. T. Ellison's long Taylor Jackson series. Taylor is a Metro Nashville homicide lieutenant on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating across the Southeastern interstates. The procedural beats are competent. The Nashville setting is rendered with the kind of affection a local writer brings to it.
Ellison's strengths are the pacing and the team dynamics in Taylor's squad. The serial-killer chapters are handled with the kind of psychological-thriller machinery that the form had institutionalized by 2007. The romance subplot with FBI agent John Baldwin is one of the series' long-running threads and gets its first real setup here.
Three stars. A competent debut. Recommended to fans of serial-killer procedural; the series builds out the team and the central romance in interesting ways across the run.
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