Series: Detectives Kane and Alton #22
Published by Bookouture on 21st May 2024
Format: eARC, Audiobook
Source: Bought, Net Galley
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Also by this author: Don’t Tell A Soul , Bring Me Flowers , Follow Me Home, The Crying Season, Where Angels Fear , Whisper in the Night , Break the Silence, Her Broken Wings, Her Shallow Grave, Promises in the Dark, Be Mine Forever, Cross My Heart , Fallen Angel, Lose Your Breath, Don’t Look Back , Pray for Mercy, Kiss Her Goodnight, Her Bleeding Heart , Chase Her Shadow , Now You See Me, Their Wicked Games, Dark Angel, Where Hidden Souls Lie , A Song for the Dead
Her heart races as she waits for her date to arrive. When the doorbell rings, her excitement quickly turns to fear when she takes in her date’s menacing stare as he closes the door behind him. He’s not here to find love, and there’s no time to scream before her world goes black…When Dakota Slade fails to turn up to work at the general store, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy David Kane visit her home in Black Rock Falls. TV still blaring, Dakota’s lifeless body is draped across the battered old sofa, her dark hair hanging over her delicate face, her young life taken too soon. With a shuddering breath, Jenna notices two small scorch marks on the back of the victim’s neck. Dakota has been electrocuted. Leaping into action, Jenna traces Dakota’s last steps but quickly hits a wall. Dakota went to church every week, helped at local charities, and she was loved by those around her. Why would anyone want to harm her?Then another young woman is found dead in her living room, the same two burn marks on her neck. Jenna’s heart shatters. Convinced a twisted killer is preying on women who live alone, she fears another innocent soul will be taken soon. A breakthrough comes when Jenna uncovers rumors of a sleazy customer who visited both victims at work. Watching CCTV footage, her pulse pounds as she looks at the screen. The man in the film is someone close to her, someone she thought she could trust. Can Jenna take down the killer if it’s someone she loves? And will she catch him in time to stop another vulnerable young woman being murdered?
Oh Ms Hood you did try to put me through the wringer! So much so I blitzed the audiobook almost in one sitting! I couldn’t believe and wouldn’t believe what was being said – there is no way! And those poor poor girls 🙁 no one deserves this. sigh
But what a thrilling book that kept me hooked so late in to the night and that I finished it when I was at work – I needed to know that what is being led to believe, was in fact wrong! I mean I knew in my heart it was wrong but when Kane and Alton start to doubt it – you know it’s time to worry!
Plus! Yes plus!! There was terrifying side plot, and I had no idea 1, it was going to happen and 2, would things ever be the same! I was crying, when Jenna was in the stables and the helicopter landed – my jaw dropped and I was screaming at her to run! Oh my!! It just broke the façade that everyone was safe, because it’s not true, the perimeter was breached and hell broke loose!
I can’t believe how fresh and exciting things feel as we are in Book 22, and that wonderful clanger at the end, well things are going to be more interesting and dicey! I am over the moon and so blinking worried at the same time! I just feel bereft that I blasted this so quickly, not sure what to do with myself now until the next book…….
Until next time xxx
About D.K Hood
D.K. Hood is THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and AMAZON bestselling author of the Detective Kane and Alton Series. Her spine chilling, fast-paced serial killer thrillers revolve around Sheriff Jenna Alton and her ex-special forces Deputy, Dave Kane. As the main characters fight crime, their secret pasts are never far away. Set in and around the fictional backwoods town of Black Rock Falls, Montana, known locally as Serial Killer Central, D.K.’s imagery takes the reader into the scenes with her. Given the title “Queen of Suspense” by her reviewers, D.K.’s writing style offers her readers a movie style, sizzling fast thrill ride.
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