Published by Thomas & Mercer Genres: Fiction, LGBT, Mystery, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
Kate Marshall and Tristan Harper are back in book three of the Kate Marshall series and what a series it is!
Kate and Tristan are hired by a Bev Ellis, a mother devastated by the disappearance of her daughter, Joanna twelve years ago. Joanna Duncan was a promising journalist who exposed a political scandal. When Kate Tristan look through Joanna’s personal affects, they find the names of two young men who went missing without a trace.
As they begin to connect the dots, they learn that there are those who have secrets but are those secrets worth killing for?
This book started strong and then got a little slow but hold on to your hat’s folks, because Bryndza is about to blow them off! This is a tightly woven mystery that brings back two great main characters, a killer with a God complex and a distraught mother.
I enjoyed the character development of Kate and Tristan and seeing more of their personal lives. I also enjoy watching them work together to solve the case. Fans of this series, know Kate’s backstory and Bryndza gives just enough of it here so that this book would work as a stand-alone but with this being only book three in the series, it is easy to go back to the beginning and begin there.
Bryndza knows how to build suspense while unraveling his plot. Better yet, nothing comes out of left field. You won’t whiplash from the reveal and yet, it will be shocking to some, some may have seen it coming and some like me, figured it out when Kate and Tristan did.
Well written, well thought out and captivating. Despite the slowness I felt after the killer beginning, I found this to be hard to put down and riveting.
Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.