1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as “The Parisian Orphan” as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father’s old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cabinet war rooms.
However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use all of her amateur sleuthing expertise to find the killer. But doing so puts her right in the path of David Poole, a cagey minister’s aide who seems determined to thwart her investigations. That is, until Evelyne finds out David’s real mission is to root out a mole selling government secrets to Britain’s enemies, and the pair begrudgingly team up.
With her quick wit, sharp eyes, and determination, will Evelyne be able to find out who’s been selling England’s secrets and catch a killer, all while battling her growing attraction to David?
A TRAITOR IN WHITEHALL (Evelyn Redfern Book #1) by Julia Kelly is the engaging first book in a new historical mystery series featuring two new protagonists that I am very excited to follow into future books. Set in Winston Churchill’s underground war rooms during the beginning of the blitz, the murder mystery is full of twists, intrigue, and historical facts.
Evelyn Redfern loves nothing more than staying in and reading her favorite British authors’ mysteries after having grown up in the center of her parent’s society divorce and scandal. After graduating from school, she is living as normally as possible in London with her best friend and working at a munitions factory until she runs into an old family friend on a night out. Mr. Fletcher has plans for Evelyn if she is willing to accept them.
Evelyn ends up working in the typing pool in Winston Churchill’s war rooms under Whitehall. As she gets used to her new position and the other girls, she discovers one of her co-workers murdered. Evelyn is determined to use her amateur sleuthing skills even as the two detectives warn her off. She crosses path with a Minister’s aide, David Poole, who she soon learns is working to discover the murderer and a leaker of military secrets.
They pool their resources and skills to work at discovering if it is one person or more responsible for selling England’s secrets and if the murderer is a part of the conspiracy.
I am interested in WWII history and love mysteries and this book delivers both; interesting facts with a murder mystery which makes me a happy reader. Evelyn is a wonderful protagonist who is intelligent, mature, and not willing to take any prejudice against her sex. David is a good partner in the investigation and is necessary since there are still many places in 1940s England women are not allowed. The mystery plot is intricately woven and moves at an ever-increasing rate with many suspects, red herrings, and twists interspersed throughout. I am really looking forward to future book in this series.
I highly recommend this first mystery book in the Evelyn Redfern series and look forward to many more.
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About the Author
Julia Kelly is the international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical mystery novels about the extraordinary stories of the past. Her books have been translated into 13 languages. In addition to writing, she’s been an Emmy-nominated producer, journalist, marketing professional, and (for one summer) a tea waitress. Julia has called Los Angeles, Iowa, and New York City home. She now lives in London with her husband.
Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, she knows numbers never deceive, unlike the toxic family she’s spent a lifetime trying to escape. Now living in her grandmother’s Victorian home, Luna has built a carefully ordered life behind walls she thought were unbreakable.
When her car is stolen from an airport parking lot, former FBI agent turned PI Nate Warren steps in to help—and proves more dangerous to her defenses than any thief. Despite Luna’s ironclad rules about mixing business with pleasure, their chemistry ignites, and for the first time, she considers letting someone past her guard. But just as their relationship begins to blossom, Luna’s manipulative mother arrives unannounced, dragging with her a dangerous man and decades of unresolved trauma that threaten everything Luna has built.
Now Luna must confront the ghosts of her past—both metaphorical and possibly literal, as strange occurrences in her historic home suggest she’s not alone. With a violent threat looming and her heart on the line, Luna discovers that sometimes the hardest person to trust is yourself.
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Elise’s Thoughts
Lead Me Home by Catherine Bybee is the first book in her newest series. The plot delves into how someone can find a love founded on mutual respect and kindness while struggling with toxic family situations. Unfortunately, Bybee experienced something very similar and drew from her own family experiences.
The main female lead is Luna Canning, the youngest of three siblings. She inherited the family home from her grandmother and shares it with a good friend, Miley, and a ghost. Luna is a forensic accountant who trusts numbers more than people. She steeks control and certainty in her life because her past was so unstable.
She is very guarded about her life until one day she meets PI Nate Warren after a coffee spill. They realize they both have been hired to investigate a corporate fraud. At first, they have an uneasy alliance, but both realize they enjoy each other’s company and that there is chemistry between them.
This story intertwines heartbreak, suspense, and healing. But it also highlights sensitive topics of child abuse, neglect, emotional manipulation, and narcissism.
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Author Interview
Elise Cooper: Is Luna based on yourself?
Catherine Bybee: Luna is very personal to me. If you’ve read the author’s note for the book, I make no secret that my childhood left some scars. And if you’ve met me, you know that snark and independence is part of who I am. So, yes. I drew on my own experiences for Luna, as I do for most of my main characters.
EC: Idea for the story?
CB: I wanted to write a romance that could help women reclaim their agency and set emotional boundaries. We can’t stay silent. That lets our abusers win.
EC: Do you write a certain type of heroine?
CB: One of the things you’ll notice about all my books is that my heroines aren’t victims. They may have suffered trauma, they may struggle with self-doubt, they may have been told they’re worthless. But they will figure out how to move beyond that and claim their power, gain their voice. My heroines learn that the biggest obstacle in your life that is keeping you from whatever it is you want is your own fear. There is no reward without risk.
EC: How would you describe Luna?
CB: Luna is at the stage where she’d jumped off the wheel, but because of what she left, she doesn’t believe the right guy can be out there. And she certainly doesn’t trust herself to make the right decisions when it comes to men. Her walls are high because they have kept her safe.
EC: How would you describe Nate?
CB: Nate is literally able to protect her. He makes it clear that he will do whatever he can to earn her trust. He is willing to show up consistently and does not look for rewards, hoping to get past the walls Luna has built.
EC: Was the house a character in the story?
CB: When I was a child, I lived in an old Victorian home in Queen Anne Hill for a very short time. That house was haunted. Like seriously. It was haunted. I have some theories about why, but that’s a whole different conversation. Honestly, an eerie house where strange things happen? That’s definitely a Catherine Bybee setting. And yes, there are several things in the book that happened to me and my brother and sister when we were living there. It’s been a lot of fun writing a book where the house is as much as a key player in the story as the people who live there.
EC: There are ghosts in the story, literally and figuratively?
CB: As a child, I briefly lived in a haunted house, so that’s always been a real thing for me. Luna’s story, and her siblings and friends, fit naturally into that. They’re haunted by their toxic childhood, the traumas that they had to normalize, and now they’re trying to move past it. I think my readers will be able to resonate with that. Early in my career I wrote a time travel series that had a LOT of magic in it, and readers are still asking for the sixth book. I miss writing paranormal. I like the idea that deceased loving family members are around in spirit looking out for us.
EC: What about the next book?
CB: The second book is about Luna’s brother, Ash, and her best friend, Miley. And we’re going to learn more about her sister Harper’s marriage. Things aren’t looking good there. We’ll find out more about that later in the series. With the house as a central character, there are bound to be more members of this found family moving in.
THANK YOU!!
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BIO: Elise Cooper has written book reviews and interviewed best-selling authors since 2009. Her reviews have covered several different genres, including thrillers, mysteries, women’s fiction, romance and cozy mysteries. An avid reader, she engages authors to discuss their works, and to focus on the descriptions of their characters and the plot. While not writing reviews, Elise loves to watch baseball and visit the ocean in Southern California, with her dog and husband.
Michael Harrier has built his reputation on a system no one else uses. Every contract comes with two targets. One dies. Someone else takes the blame.
It’s worked flawlessly for years.
Until now.
What should be a clean hit starts to unravel. A woman with a violent past pulls him off course. A single mistake threatens to expose everything. And for the first time, Harrier is forced to improvise.
Meanwhile, LAPD homicide sergeant Jordan Becker is hunting a killer he can’t pin down.
But he’s built his career on getting results where others stall out.
The case doesn’t follow any rules. The evidence doesn’t hold. The story keeps shifting. And the deeper Becker digs, the clearer it becomes he’s chasing someone smarter, faster, and always just out of reach.
As Harrier’s world tightens and Becker starts to break through, both men are pulled into a game where every move has consequences—and no one is as untouchable as they think.
Because this time, getting away with murder isn’t the hardest part.
BIRDS OF PREY DON’T SING by Joe Cary is engrossing dark thriller featuring an assassin traumatized by his past and living by his own moral code and the damaged detective determined to catch him. This is the author’s debut novel, and it is truly difficult to put down even with some emotionally difficult to read scenes.
The main characters in this novel are Michael Harrier, the assassin who makes the person ordering his service pick one victim to kill and one victim to frame for the murder, Chensea, a woman on the run from her Vegas bookie ex who has Michael questioning his personal rules, and LAPD homicide detective Jordan Becker who will do anything to get his man which is what has gotten him in trouble before. All three of these characters are fully developed in all their shades of gray and black. Even as you learn more about each, you may feel you want to like them, or excuse something they have done, but there is no white knight in this novel.
The plot and pace of this novel is flawless. The step-by-step investigation is realistic, and each minute flaw made by Michael is a reward to Jordan’s doggedness. The action is intense and there is a lot of blood, so it is not good for the squeamish, but what I expect for a novel of this type. The ending is not what I was expecting and frankly, I am still not sure how I feel about it. I believe it is a conclusion that will be discussed by many every time this book is read.
I highly recommend this dark and gritty assassin thriller!
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About the Author
Joe Cary’s stories have appeared in One Story, XRAY Literary Magazine, BULL, MonkeyBicycle, and elsewhere, and also earned a Special Mention in the 2020 Pushcart Prize Anthology and a Best of the Net nomination. A former Angeleno, he currently lives with his family in Philadelphia, where he fights money laundering, fraud, and other financial crimes. Birds of Prey Don’t Sing is his first novel.
Early retirement never sounded so good to Mervin and Ruthie Miller. After a lifetime in Millersburg, where Mervin worked at a furniture and shed factory and Ruthie helped out at a fabric store, they have exciting plans: They’re going to become “Amish Gentlemen Farmers.” That means buying a 30-acre, ramshackle farm, and all that comes with it—no matter what their grown children, friends, and aching muscles think . . .
Aaron Miller is worried about his parents, but there’s little he can do now that he lives in Kentucky and has a baby on the way. Then his childhood best friend, Kyle Burkholder, makes a heaven-sent offer: he’ll move in with Aaron’s parents to teach them about raising cows and chickens, and even give weekly reports to Aaron.
The arrangement is going well—until Kyle stumbles upon Daisy Lapp who’s just been in a bicycle accident. When he visits her in the hospital, he knows there’s something special between them. So does Daisy. But her something special is the fact that Kyle lives on the farm she’d always dreamed of buying one day. She knows it’s wrong, but she’s jealous. She wants nothing to do with Kyle and politely tells him so.
Still, like the Millers, Kyle’s not one to give up easily. Not on himself, not on the farm, and certainly not on Daisy. With dedication and a leap of faith, the lives they envisioned just might come true.
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Elise’s Thoughts
D is for Daisy by Shelley Shepard Gray is once again a book that will put a smile on readers’ faces and make them feel good. There has never been a book she has written that is not engrossing, captivating, and heartwarming.
The story takes place in the rural Amish community of Walden, Ohio. Mervin and Ruthie Miller decide to buy a farm instead of working in a furniture factory and fabric store. The problem is neither know anything about farming. Their son’s childhood best friend, Kyle Hostetler, agrees to help them out and moves in as their hired hand.
While working, he sees a girl crash her electric bike resulting in her broken leg. When he comes to visit her in the hospital, she shows her resentment by being rude. Kyle finds out that that he lives on the farm she’d always dreamed of buying one day. Daisy Lapp feels the farm next to her parent’s farm had been sold out from under her. Now she is reassessing her life, realizing she has no boyfriend and no job. She was fired because she is unable to work due to the accident.
Ruthie acts as a matchmaker, having Kyle deliver baked goods to Daisy as she recuperates. Slowly they become friends and Daisy realizes she is attracted to him. But he likes her arch enemy, Winter Walker, a selfish girl who enjoys putting Daisy down. Can Kyle realize the true nature of Winter and decide to court Daisy instead?
Like all her other books this story will warm readers’ hearts. It has appealing characters that are realistic, including Velvet the cow. It is a feel-good book.
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Author Interview
Elise Cooper: Is this a new series of sorts or is it a continuation of your ABC series?
Shelley Shepard Gray: When I first thought of doing ABCs, I really did want to do all 26 letters, which would be the dream. I don’t know if that’ll happen. I ended up with a fictional town named Walden in Ohio because I thought, well, I’m just going to have to keep adding things. I came up with the original idea for books, A, B, and C and had that played out. I decided I’m just going to do the different series and trilogies. C ended the first trilogy with the Schrock family. F concludes this trilogy, and I’m contracted for G, with G, H and I, starting a whole a new series. We’ll see, how many letters I end up getting to do. It may just be D through G. Right now, I’ve written 6 of them. I’m contracted for the 7th letter of the alphabet.
EC: Why did you have the setting of the farm?
SSG: A little bit of this series is kind of a tongue in cheek for my husband. He’s a salesman. We’ve lived all over the country. We’ve always lived in the suburbs, but he had a secret dream of living on a farm. This is a little bit of making fun of myself and my husband. Sometimes, maybe achieving your dream is not all a bed of roses, and there is a lot of hard work. Unlike the song, every dream doesn’t always come true the way you hope it will.
EC: Did you ever hear of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone Mystery books that has in the title the alphabet?
SSG: I’ve read a bunch of her books, and my original editor over at Kensington, she’s retired now, but when we were first talking about this, she noted, Shelly, you could be our Amish Sue Grafton. I was like, well, I couldn’t imagine a better role model. It is an ode to her.
EC: How would you describe Daisy?
SSG: She’s a dreamer, but her dreams go up in smoke. She’s a tomboy and feels different than other Amish girls, thinks she’s a misfit. She is frustrated because she feels she needs to re-examine her life and to be useful. Daisy is determined, stubborn, and can be tight lipped, strong, hopeful, modest, somewhat innovative, and insecure. She doesn’t feel tough and independent like others think of her.
EC: Is she a little different than the other female leads you write?
SSG: I love to write a heroine that readers are rooting for. At first, she kind of drove me crazy, because I kept thinking she’s the type of character or person that just kind of wants to yell to everyone: if you just give me a chance, you’re going to like me. I’m worth the struggle to be a friend, because I do know what I’m doing, and I am a hard worker. She’s just begging for people to believe in her, and, but she needs to believe in herself too.
EC: What role does Ruthie and Mervin play in this new series?
SSG: When I first pitched it to my editor, I called it the “Amish Green Acres,” referring to the TV show. So many people seem to think that all Amish are great at sewing. All Amish are great at farming. It was like somebody who thinks, oh, well, when you’re born to an Amish family they just automatically know how to do everything. But I wanted to have an older couple who lived in an Amish city but they always had a dream of having this big farm. They finally get their dream by buying this farm, and they have no idea what they’re doing. That was the inspiration for the books D, E, and F. Different people come into the Miller’s lives to try to help them out in different ways. They are very caring and have a lot of common sense, except when they bought this farm. And there’s always an animal to deal with.
EC: How would you describe Kyle?
SSG: He is a good older brother, protective, friendly, impulsive, and kind.
EC: His sister, Sarah, is hard of hearing?
SSG: She was not based on anyone specific. I was a 6th grade teacher for a long time and I had students with a lot of different learning disabilities in my classrooms. I always tried to make accommodations. Sarah has a caption phone. Her teacher doesn’t really seem to understand how to deal with her. She is teased a lot and because of that is not confident. Kyle is like a lot of older brothers, sisters, parents, who wants to make things right, to fix things. To put Sarah in a bubble, every time things go wrong or things happen, but sometimes it’s out of our control.
EC: What about the relationship between Kyle and Daisy?
SSG: I thought he was a good counterpart for Daisy. He was kind of the opposite of her. She’s a little awkward, a little tomboyish, kind of a wallflower. She just doesn’t quite fit in and never really has. While Kyle on the other side is kind of a catch. People want to be his friend and they look out for him. He’s good at a lot of things. And so, I thought he would be a fun counterpart to her. When they first met, Daisy was kind of rude to him and was confused and irritated by him. He helps her after she gets in this bike accident. Part of the reason she is so difficult with Kyle is she’s just embarrassed. But then they turned into friends because they had reading and farming in common. He believed in her, and thought of her as special and unique. They eventually fell in love with each other.
EC: There is this quote you wrote about a river that very much describes their relationship. Do you agree?
SSG: You are referring to “A river can be shallow or calm, but oftentimes perilous, deep, a strong current”. Daisy, in a sense, felt that her life was filled with disappointments, including at some point her relationship with Kyle because of his infatuation with another Amish girl, Winter. But she is the one who ends up with Kyle and realizes their strengths. She feels successful, she feels good about herself, and feels good about her relationship with Kyle. He always encouraged her to keep trying, to keep looking, and to not give up.
EC: How would you describe Winter?
SSG: I usually don’t like love triangles one bit. I don’t like reading about them. I don’t like writing about them, but for this book, I used it to have Kyle make a mistake. So, he totally gets sucked in by Winter, who is not a nice girl. She was never nice to Daisy. When Kyle found out about that, it just made her in his mind not to be a very nice person. She twists people’s words, is a liar, pretends to be nice, but is aggressive and dramatic. Winter is someone who seeks attention, spoiled, and I would call her a mean Amish girl.
EC: Do you think the names Daisy and Winter really represent the characters well?
SSG: Winter is very cold so I thought it was fitting. She has a cold personality, for sure. And Winter’s almost so stormy, and so was she. Regarding Daisy, I thought of the actual flower, delicate, warm, and sunny.
EC: What role did Velvet the cow play?
SSG: I had Ruthie in the barn doing some farm work. I wanted her to have a safe person, originally, to kind of talk things over with, and then the next thing I know, I wrote a scene in there, and there was the cow, the bovine therapist, a therapy animal. I had written another book for Kensington, titled, Happily Ever Amish, and there was a donkey, and I wrote it in because the heroine didn’t have a lot of friends, and she had to have a way for her to talk to somebody that wasn’t all internal dialogue. I had her talk to this donkey, and it went over well. I think that’s how I came up with, oh, I’ll just have a cow this time. I was able to get out the people’s feelings and thoughts without it being just inside their head. It’s a slow book if it’s just pages and pages of backstory and description.
EC: Next books?
SSG: E is for Englisher. The heroine’s name is Ella, and she’s lost everybody in her family. She is English, her parents had died in a car accident. Ruthie and Mervin turned into her reluctant parents in a way. She goes to their house to kind of be a caretaker, but really, they are taking care of her. It comes out in November, and it’s a Christmas book.
Another series I am writing, the first book in the “Amish Widow’s Club Series,” The Unexpected Caller comes out July 7th. And then the second book in the Widows Club, The Forbidden Caller comes out in September. The premise for this series is a secret Amish widow’s club in Holmes County. Widowed women after a year or so are offered an invitation to join this club. It’s like a support group. They meet, they get together once a month or every couple of weeks and do stuff together. It’s for women who don’t want to get married again. But of course, my heroines get married again.
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BIO: Elise Cooper has written book reviews and interviewed best-selling authors since 2009. Her reviews have covered several different genres, including thrillers, mysteries, women’s fiction, romance and cozy mysteries. An avid reader, she engages authors to discuss their works, and to focus on the descriptions of their characters and the plot. While not writing reviews, Elise loves to watch baseball and visit the ocean in Southern California, with her dog and husband.
When a husband, wife, and son are murdered in their Denver home and the family’s teenage twins vanish, the case draws the attention of FBI profilers Helen Belle and Benedict Hoffman. It triggers more than professional alarm. It mirrors a horrific case they investigated five years ago, when a boy slaughtered his family and went mute after speaking only a handful of haunting words. Among them: Midnight Man.
Then, nearly thirteen hundred miles away, one of the twins is found dead in a snowy Ohio field, and the parallels between the past and present cases grow more disturbing. Identical suicide notes. The same symbolic blood imagery. And a shared obsession with an online fantasy game. Its mastermind is an influencer who manipulates his most vulnerable and alienated players into killing the people they love most.
The Midnight Man is back.
Helen and Benedict must hunt the darkest corners of the internet to find him before someone else falls prey to an insidious evil that, for now, is in total control of the game.
A VOICE IN THE DARK (Benedict Hoffman and Helen Belle Book #1) by Barbara Nickless is a chilling crime thriller/FBI police procedural that is very relevant in all current discussions regarding AI, minors’ use of the internet, and the ever-present dangers on the world wide web. This is the start of a new series with two compelling protagonists and a serial killer crime plot that hooked me immediately.
Five years ago, Helen Belle and Benedict Hoffman had their belief in an outside influence and assistance from the Midnight Man in the slaughter by a boy of his entire family discredited in court. Helen goes on with her work at the FBI and Benedict walks out of his life and job. A detective from the old case is faced with a similar case as well as the kidnapping of the twin of the believed perpetrator and alerts FBI agent Helen Belle.
From almost identical suicide notes to a shared obsession with an on-line multi-player fantasy game, Helen believes the Midnight Man is back and reaches out to now Professor Benedict Hoffman for assistance. They put their personal past aside and work together to unravel hidden identities and motives as they realize they are racing the clock to rescue the missing twin and stop the Midnight Man before someone else is led to murder.
I was pulled into this story immediately and terrified by the possible reality of the crime plot. Ms. Nickless does a good job of not preaching that the internet is all bad and all gamers are going to become killers, but the gray of the situations and discusses the type of adolescents that can be influenced. The crimes are horrific but could also be ripped right out of the current news. Helen and Benedict are interesting protagonists with not only a somewhat unique outlook on humanist psychology on the study of crime, but with interesting backstories, also. This is a couple I will look forward to following in their future investigations.
I highly recommend this first book in this compelling crime thriller series!
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About the Author
Barbara Nickless is the award-winning, WSJ and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of nine novels; her first and third series have been optioned for film. A teacher and activist, she teaches combat veterans and civilians in the U.S. and Ukraine. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association, the World Affairs Council and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. A former fencer and falconer, Barbara lives in Colorado where she loves to hike, cave, snowshoe, and drink single malt Scotch.
Lou Gomersall’s going as far as it takes. And there’s no turning back.
When her nineteen-year-old daughter Abby disappears, Lou embarks on a reckless road trip in the family RV, scouring the highways and back roads of California. Through desert and mountains, into the woods, and to the ocean’s edge.
A year later, the police don’t believe Lou’s theory that four other missing young women have been taken by the same elusive predator. So, when another college sophomore vanishes, Lou jumps on the fresh trail, enlisting millennial #vanlifers, Gen Z entrepreneurs, boomer RVers, homeless sages, truck stop prostitutes, and everyone in between in her do-or-die mission to rescue Abby …
THE GRAPEVINE (The Lost Highway Book #1) by Alexandra Sokoloff and Craig Robertson is a tension-filled thriller featuring a mother who will go anywhere and do anything to find her missing daughter. This is a collaboration between two authors I have enjoyed reading individually, so of course I was excited when I was asked to read this book.
Lou Gomersall’s daughter, Abby, is missing without any clues. Leaving her husband at home, she takes the family RV and begins scouring the highways and byways of California. She collects any mention of other missing young women and uses the network of other people on the road living the van life, campground operators, and even prostitutes at truck stops to search for connections. Even when the police are skeptical and tell her to stay out of the cases she has found and go home, she continues. She refuses to believe her daughter is dead, no matter how crazy she seems or acts.
Lou is on a mission to save Abby and kill the man who took her.
Lou is such a memorable protagonist. You have empathy for her, you feel sorrow for her, you cheer her on even when she seems or acts crazy, and you keep hoping with each revelation she discovers the truth of what happened to all the missing girls, not just Abby. All the secondary characters are believable, and I was glad she had Ethan in the second half of the book to help her search for clues and try to keep her more grounded in reality. The plot pace continuously builds as more pieces of the puzzle of the missing young women cases are revealed. The ending chapters kept me on a rollercoaster of emotions and left me completely shocked and not expecting the revelation at the climax of the crime plot and I love it when that happens. I am not sure what these authors and this series will have instore in the future, but you can definitely count me in.
I highly recommend this emotionally charged, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller!
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About the Author
Alexandra Sokoloff is a Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Black Quill Award nominated author of the supernatural thrillers The Harrowing, The Price, The Unseen, Book of Shadows, The Shifters, The Space Between, and the bestselling Huntress/FBI Thrillers series. As a screenwriter she has sold original horror and thriller scripts and adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios. She is a California native and a graduate of UC Berkeley.
Craig Robertson had a twenty-year career as a journalist with a Scottish Sunday newspaper before becoming a full-time author. His gritty crime novels are set on the mean streets of contemporary Glasgow. His first novel, Random, was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA New Blood Dagger, longlisted for the 2011 Crime Novel of the Year, and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Murderabilia was longlisted for the 2017 Crime Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize. The Photographer and Watch Him Die were longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize.
