The Search by Iris Johansen

 

This book three in the Eve Duncan series. Eve has finally got her daughter back and she's getting buried. At least it's over and she and Joe Quinn and their new daughter Jane can live as happily as possible. 

Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever Monty helped out in finding her. Now, John Logan has showed up at he farm house. She knows he wants something from her again. This is something that doesn't make her happy. He never quite tells her everything. He's a man that has plenty of money and just as many secrets to boot. 

Rudzak is a really bad guy and he wants Logan dead. He blames him for his half sisters death even though he's the one that killed her. Logan only tells Sarah so much but, does say he needs her to find bodies that are barred in a plant of his. She and Monty do their job and it's never easy on either of them. Finding dead bodies just gets Monty depressed. 

After heading home, she ends up with Logan coming with. He had been shot and didn't need to come. She ends up having to take care of him. Then, one morning her dog Monty takes off out of the house and she has to track him down. He has found a wolf with her leg in a trap. Logan helps get her loose after Sarah drugs her. She wraps the leg and Monty doesn't want to leave her.

As Logan's leg heals, she is called away to a mudslide and this rescue is going to be a tough one. Logan goes with and doesn't realize that this was done on prepose. Rudzak really does want him hurting and hoping to kill him sooner then later. 

I will say that after they get back to her house, he explains more to her. He also ends up sleeping with her. Things between them isn't easy, Sarah can be a hard one to crack. She's hard headed most of the time and doesn't give in to much. But, Logan ending up in her bed wasn't what she really wanted at first. 

I enjoyed this book. It's fast paced and you learn a little bit more about Logan and Sarah. It's worth the read if you've read the other two. 

Old Bones by Preston and Child

 

This a first book in a new series. Nora Kelly is an Archaeologist,  she is meeting with a historian named Clive Benton about searching for the Dooner party camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She is meeting with the head of her department about going up there and with Clive's help they might just find it. Also, there is mention of gold coins left there. They do get the okay. 

Junior agent Corrie Swanson has been doing cold cases for awhile now, at least four months. Picken's family decedents having been murdered and grave robbed and kidnapped. For what reason she doesn't know. Corrie's boss, calls he into his office to allow her to investigate what is happening. This is her chance to prove herself. 

Burleson has a ranch where they can get horses to go up to where they are going to look for that lost party. They will have a few other people with them, so they will have food and horses to carrying their  equipment up there to set up. 

After being up there about a week in a half. One of Burleson's group leaves with some of the bones they find and after a search for a little while they find him at a bottom of a cliff. Agent Swanson is called in to look around, at first she thinks it's a murder. Asking everyone there what they know, she thinks there's more going on then there willing to say. 

After another murder happens, even Nora is starting to wonder the same thing. Plus, its trying to uncover the bones and then, wanting to look for the gold. Everything just seems to be falling apart on her. She not happy, having to be kicked out of her site because of all this. 

I'm not going to spoil the ending. But, I never saw what was coming at the end of the book. It's a pretty good book, worth reading.  

Nocticadia by Keri Lake

 

Lilia's mom is suffering from a weird disease and it's taking her mind. After her mom dies, Lilia wants to find out more things about this disease. 

Her home life isn't the best and she's been trying to help her sister stay in the private school she is at. She's been working nights and going to school herself. She's asked one day to come speak to someone at the school about a paper she wrote. Professor Wilkins says that she's getting a semester at Dracadia University and that it's all paid for. She had been trying to get into that school and this is surprising. Maybe she can learn as much as she can about this disease her mother had now. 

After making the trip to Dracadia she is shown where her room will be and what classes she will be having. Professor Bramwell is the main one she wants to talk too. he has a million questions. Once her classes start, she is sitting a role or two away from the head of the class, next to Spencer. 

When he walks in, Lilia notices how handsome he is. Dark he is, when he speaks she is looking right at him. He then, notices her. He doesn't know what it is about her that has captivated him so much. He tries to keep his head and then, later on he starts to think about her more and more. When she does a crazy thing he takes her phone. 

Lilia midnight class is mostly taught my his TA. She tries to talk to the Professor at the end of the class and because she has so many questions he just blows her off. What she doesn't know is the same thing her mother had, He had given to a guy he brought back to test and see what happens. 

The truth of the matter is, a few people don't want her there. The back story of Professor Bramwell isn't a good one and there is some things she ends up finding out the farther into the semester she goes. Hooking up with Bramwell might just cause some really bad things to happen to her. She needs to find the truth about what it was that made her mom so sick. 

I will give a warning, this book is not for people under 18 years of age. Read the trigger warnings in the book if you are wanting to read this, over all this was a really great story. Yes, there is sex in this. That's all I'm going to say. 

Pick the book up, it's a great story. 

Ricochet by Sandra Brown

 

Detective Duncan Hatcher is sitting in the courtroom waiting to see what's going to happen to Savich and he ends up getting pissed off because the judge Cato Laird declares a mistrial. He's not happy and when his partner Deedee reminds him of the awards ceremony, he really isn't in the mood. She talks him into going and when they get there he makes a beeline for the bar. Across the room he sees a very pretty young woman but, Deedee tells him that she's married. She's married to the judge.

When he leaves, he says something not so nice to her. After getting home and a week or so goes by, they get a call about a shooting in the home of the judge. Duncan doesn't know what to make of it and seeing Elise for the second time doesn't help him. He's very attracted to her but, tried his best to not show it. He lets Deedee take the rains. 

  He's heading out for a run and Elise shows up at his house. She wants to speak to him. She tries to tell him that she was protecting herself from getting killed by her husband. The judge seems very overly protective of her or is there more there than meets the eye. They do a lot of background checks on her. Duncan just knows he's going to be in a lot of trouble if he can't control his thoughts and feeling about her. 

Then, she passes him a note, for him to meet her some place and he lets himself give in to his wanting her. He still isn't sure of what's really going on but, having sex with Elise isn't going to help this case at all. 

Later on that night, Elisa disappears from a bridge. Thinking that she might be dead, Duncan is loosing it. The judge isn't happy and makes himself part of trying to find her. 

I'll just say this, the ending of this book was something I wasn't expecting. Pick the book up, you might just like it. To be honest, this book would make a great movie. 

Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood

 

This is a first book in a series and it's really good. Father Tom Madden is in waiting for people to come confess their sins and the church in Boston. A guy comes in just as Tom is getting ready to leave and tells him a story about killing a women and that his sister Laurant is next. It scares Tom to death. He reaches out to his friend that's a FBI agent, Nick Buchanan and tells him what happened. 

Nick is speaking to his boss about his best friend and explaining that he has some time off and that he should try to keep both Tom and Laurant safe and he wants to bring in Noah, someone that he trusts. 

After meeting with Tom, his sitter shows up and Nick realizes that she quite pretty and sexy in her own way. She lives in Holy Oaks and isn't going any where Nick wants but back home. It's important. 

When Noah shows up to stay with Tom, Nick and Laurant head to Holy Oak. Their plan is to pretend that they are engaged and boyfriend and girlfriend. As much as Nick is trying to be  the agent he is, he is having a series problem, he's catching feelings for her and the same is happening to her. They start by having a heavy kissing thing and because they know that there is a camera pointed into her bedroom they do all they heavy kissing in there.

What they don't know is the camera belongs to a guy that's been wanting Laurant for quite awhile and he's pissed off. He wants revenge. Is it the guy that threatened Tom at the church or someone else. 

You'll have to pick up the book and find out. The ending is quite good. The book is fast paced to it moves through the story really will.  

A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong

 

Casey has been in Rockton now for 4 months. She and Eric had finished one case. But, today Eric has a run out of town to do. One of the guys has taken off into the forest. So, her and Will decide to go into the woods to find him and bring him back. They took the snow mobiles and go after him. Not knowing that a storm is coming. 

They don't make it far when Will hits a tree and gets thrown from it. The snow is starting to fly and she needs to get him and head back to town. Will isn't to bad off and they decide to go looking for some place to sit and wait for the storm to pass. The cave they find, ends up having someone in there. They need to get her out of the hole. They know that she tells them that the guy will be back soon enough. She talks Will into taking one of the snow mobiles back to town being they can only get one started.  What happens after they leave, is she's attacked by someone in the woods that has been watching them.

She knows that Eric is going to be mad and when he gets back he will be coming out to look for her. He's good with tracking, when it comes to the forest. 

After getting back to town she speaks to Nickel who is the women that has been in the hole, in that cave for over a year. Whomever did this to her, they are going to need to find them. Her and Eric do go back to the cave and look around and when she falls down a craves. She lands on two older bodies and they end up bringing them back to town. 

Some where out there in that forest is a murder. It's up to them to find him.

I will say that this book is as good as the first book in this series. I will be reading the others too. This one is worth picking up and eric is so interesting to read about. He's very complex and hides a lot of himself from many of the people in the town. Pick up this book. You might like it.  

The Society by Karen Winn

 

In this book you meet two women, on young and one older. Taylor works as a nurse in a hospital her aunt has helped her get when she moves to Boston. She decided to come because her mom moved here and then, she died in a fire. She always had this thing about rich peoples clothes and wanting to look good. Even though, she can't afford to buy the Richie rich stuff herself. 

Vivian is a woman in her 40's and owns an antique store. She does some business with a place they call the Knox. It's considered a secret society kind of place. Vivian has always known that her back ground coincides with it. She's always wanted to find the proof. That's why, when she meets Peter who's part of the Knox she thinks she can get information from him. Instead, she ends up in his bed. 

Taylor's working in the ER and Vivian is brought in. She has fallen down the stairs and has a brain injury. They put her in the ICU. Taylor would take a few minutes out of her day to go up and check on her. Then, one time she goes and Vivian isn't there and no one knows where she went. She tries to look it up but, finds out that it's set to private and she can't look it up. She knows it doesn't make any sense. 

After her landlord comes by and says that the Knox is looking to hire. She just feels that she need to go. She meets Peter and she has a hard time concentrating. She get hired on a trial bases. The place is a lot different and there are many secrets inside this place. What she doesn't know is things aren't going to be exactly what she hopes it is. Trying to get information from the people that works there doesn't really pan out. 

This book is a slow burn but, it progresses quite nicely as you keep going on turning the page. Its a newer book that came out this year. It was quiet interesting to me and I enjoyed it more then I thought I would. Pick it up and see what you think.