Series: Detective Josie Quinn #17
Published by Bookouture on 3rd May 2023
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: Bought, Net Galley
Also by this author: Her Mother's Grave, Her Final Confession, The Bones She Buried , Her Silent Cry, Cold Heart Creek, Find Her Alive, Save Her Soul, Breathe Your Last, Hush Little Girl, Her Deadly Touch, The Drowning Girls, Watch Her Disappear, Local Girl Missing , The Innocent Wife, My Child is Missing
The young woman lay among the rocks next to the creek like a broken doll, strands of her long dark hair covering her face. Her body was the kind of cold that only the dead can be…
A body lies beside Kettlewell Creek, the waters rushing and churning next to her broken form. When Detective Josie Quinn arrives at the scene, she finds few clues and a victim with no enemies. Nineteen-year-old Sharon Eddy was cherished by her beloved grandmother, who raised her, and her death shocks the Denton community where she worked at the local animal hospital.
When Josie is called to the morgue to hear the results of Sharon’s autopsy, the case takes a sinister turn. She is horrified to see that a mark has been burned on to Sharon’s left hip with a cattle brand: a horseshoe shot through with an arrow. Shaken and terrified, the usually cool and collected Medical Examiner Anya Feist lifts her own top to show Josie an identical mark. Ten years ago, Anya fled her hometown after her marriage to her high school sweetheart ended in terror.
But Josie can find nothing to connect Anya’s ex-husband Vance Hadlee to the murder. Her search of his family farm leads to more questions than answers.
Then another body is found. A young woman in a red coat, lying in her final resting place, her hip bearing the same tell-tale horseshoe mark. As Josie gets closer to finding the truth, the killer creeps ever closer to home, threatening the lives of those Josie loves the most. Can she put together the pieces of this terrifying puzzle before it’s too late?
A completely unputdownable crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Gripping, page-turning and guaranteed to keep you up all night, it’s perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine
I am not sure how I feel about this book. I bought the audiobook as I have loved this series and I love the narrator so I always buy the audiobook. This time, however, I feel that this book should have been read…which I did for the last 20%
There are quite a lot of characters this time and some have similar names or links, and I got confused. Luckily I had the ebook so I could go back over it but I am still not sure if I entirely got everything.
Then! We get to the 80% and from then on, I am a wreck. I am sobbing. This book is cruel, so goddamn cruel. I can’t even tell you why but this series is going to get tough and I don’t think I am ready for what may come next. I might do a Joey and put the book in the freezer because right now Lisa has broken me.
The storyline was interesting, I just wished that I had read all of the book apart from the last 20%. That bit was explosive and shocking, despite feeling I didn’t really know what was going on. The revelations and realisation for a character were tough to read, life really is like a box of chocolates, as I wasn’t expecting this.
It was great to see more of Anya and learn about her and her background. That was not an easy read!! In fact, it was horrifying! It is also quite worrying how one family has so much influence over a town!!!!!!!!! *shiver* I was really concerned for her, however, with the introduction of new characters, I do wonder if any of them may come back again…
It definitely had me hooked as I flew the last bits. A sign of a great author! I just want Lisa to go back and delete what she’s done and change it, I mean can we arrange for that??????
Book 17 and it is still fresh and an enthralling read. So much to keep you on your toes and it gives you a family you want to keep wrapped up in cotton wool. Plus I think Josie deserves another holiday LOL
Until the next adventure xxx
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