By Kelly Bridgewater
"This story is sure to leave you breathless from the thrill of the ride. Hold on tight, it's about to get exhilarating!"--Lynette Eason, bestselling and award-winning author of the Extreme Measures series
"Cold Pursuit sucked me in from the first riveting page and pulled me deeper into an intricate, danger-filled plot."--Elizabeth Goddard, bestselling author of Cold Light of Day
Ex-FBI profiler River Ryland still suffers from PTSD after a case went horribly wrong. Needing a fresh start, she moves to St. Louis to be near her ailing mother and opens a private investigation firm with her friend and former FBI partner, Tony St. Clair. They're soon approached by a grieving mother who wants them to find out what happened to her teenaged son, who disappeared four years ago. River knows there's almost no hope the boy is still alive, but his mother needs closure, and River and Tony need a case, no matter how cold it might be.
But as they follow the boy's trail, which gets more complicated at every turn, they find themselves in the path of a murderer determined to punish anyone who gets in his way. As River and Tony race to stop him before he kills again, an even more dangerous threat emerges, stirring up the past that haunts River and plotting an end to her future.
My
Thoughts:
Cold
Pursuit by Nancy Mehl features a serial killer who is
hiding in plain sight. There is two subplots to this story. First, readers are
introduced to River and her past encounter with a serial killer. Then the story
moves forward into the present day with Tom and River working as Private
Investigator who used to work in the Behavior Analysis's unit. One of my least
favorite items in a suspense novel is actually telling the name of the villain.
By doing that, it is no surprise to the readers as they work alongside the
heroine and hero to solve the case. I prefer stories where it is just a genre
or third-person pronoun, so I do not know who the villain is. As for the plot,
it was a little different. The villain's deeds were actually showcased near the
end of the story. I wanted more of that. I wanted more of the villain taunting
the heroine and hero. That did not happen either. While the plot did capture my
attention and I couldn't wait to see who the bad person would meet their doom,
for my level of suspense, it did not dive deep into that aspect. Overall, Cold Pursuit by Nancy Mehl could have
dove deeper into the suspense and taunting the main characters a little more.
They just appeared to co-exist with one another.
I received a complimentary copy of Cold Pursuit by Nancy Mehl, but the
opinions stated are all my own.
My
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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