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Having lost her husband and child to a drunk driver, Detective Amanda Steele is only surviving by numbing her grief with anonymous sex and illegally obtained prescription drugs. Established Arnold fans will enjoy this new series. The author’s writing style is frank, unapologetic, and serious.
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The storyline is well-plotted and paced, but the rehashing of Amanda’s pain demanding constant attention slows the development, derails the gleaning of new leads, and the narrative repeatedly mires in melancholy.Ī good, solid start to a new series that will benefit by additional character building as well as a complete picture of the setting. The thought processes behind the investigation, interviews, and extended research lightens somewhat the dark plot. He’ll also need fleshing out-Trent’s character appealing from the beginning. There is a lot of development yet to happen in what is a promising protagonist with a rookie partner she doesn’t want. It’s Book 1 and what we know about Amanda is that she is hurting.
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The conflict of interest would eliminate her from any investigation, but she is given a satellite cold case and soon the plot spins into a far more complex plot than the murder of the drunk driver who wiped out her family. In the meantime, she has learned to satisfy certain basic needs, one of which she’ll now need as her alibi in his obvious murder. Five and one-half years may as well be yesterday-the pain is still raw.
His death won’t bring back her family.Īmanda is a severely damaged protagonist and the book swings into heavy emotion, pounding out the depth of her loss. When she is notified of the discovery of the body of the driver in a motel a few days following his release from prison, she feels nothing. But her survival left her empty and any interest in her job as local detective gone. It did not influence my opinion.įive and one-half years ago, Amanda Steele and her family were in a horrendous auto accident that left her husband and young daughter dead. With where it ended, I don’t know if my stomach can take where it might be going, but I’ll keep an eye out for what’s next for Detective Steele.ĭisclaimer: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and Bookouture in exchange for my honest review. If it takes her that long to track down her alibi, it’s going to take her decades – and so many more books – to solve the bigger underlying crime that we’re left with at the end of this book.Īnd you really have to suspend your disbelief for Detective Steele ever actually being assigned to this case in the first place, especially since she’s the one with the most motive and a prime suspect, although outside of being asked for an alibi over and over – and even as she fails to provide one – everyone else pretends that this wouldn’t be an issue if the case ever actually went anywhere – reasonable doubt, anyone?
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Type in the license plate, get the name, hand it over. I’d like to see that continue in the future books.īut I’m not sure why we spend most of the story with Detective Steele trying to track down an alibi for where she was during the murder, just because she didn’t want to tell her boss that she had a one night stand. He seems very non-stereotypical of many male detectives in this genre of book, which is definitely a good thing. (Seriously, big child abuse trigger warning.) I also liked the relationship between Detective Steele and her new partner Trent Stenson. And I was glad that there wasn’t much explicit violence, although there was enough explicit other stuff that I wish I’d had a warning before I started reading. I even empathized with her character still trying to get over the initial shock of losing her young daughter years later. And when she uncovers a link between a silver bracelet he has on him and a past cold case involving a brutally murdered dancer, she finds herself mixed up in something very dangerous and unexpected. One night, following yet another motel hook-up, she gets a called to a crime scene, and she finds the body of the man who killed her family. Now she spends her nights drinking too much and having anonymous one night stands, although somehow she still keeps it together enough to stay at her job as a homicide detective. Detective Amanda Steele lost everything almost six years ago – her husband and daughter were killed by a drunk driver, and she shut out her parents and siblings, unable to be near them after her life fell apart.
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