4.0
Little Girl Gone
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Nothing matters more to her
when a child's life is at stake.
Special agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a twenty-eight-year-old cold case—her twin sister's abduction. Working with her former partner, Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first…until now.
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.
Discover more action-packed stories in the A Procedural Crime Story series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:
Book 1: Little Girl Gone
Book 2: John Doe Cold Case
when a child's life is at stake.
Special agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a twenty-eight-year-old cold case—her twin sister's abduction. Working with her former partner, Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first…until now.
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.
Discover more action-packed stories in the A Procedural Crime Story series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:
Book 1: Little Girl Gone
Book 2: John Doe Cold Case
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4.0
“Thea Lamb is a Cold Case Agent who never leaves a stone unturned. Her most recent case involves the abduction of an infant, but it also mirrors a case she herself was involved in when she was a young child. It has been twenty-eight years since her sister was abducted and Thea feels that the past and the present are connected. Thea will be working alongside FBI Special Agent Jake Stillwell.
As things start to evolve, Thea has more than a personal connection to the case so due to conflict has to stand on the sidelines. More than that, Thea and Jake have a history so that ratchets up the drama and intrigue involved when it comes to finding the misssing infant. More than that, perhaps Thea will find closure as to what could have happened to her sister.
What an excellent start to a new series! Exciting from beginning to end, this book was a one-sitting read. I am really interested in the next book,
John Doe Cold Case,
available now.
Many thanks to Harlequin Intrigue and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.”
“2.5
I love the premise of this story but unfortunately, it let me down a bit in execution. I was instantly hooked on the idea of two little girls going missing from the same bedroom almost three decades apart and Stevens did a great job balancing the two stories and keeping us guessing the whole way through. Thea and Jake had good chemistry and I enjoyed the second chance romance element they brought to the story. I also liked that they did a lot of their investigating solo so we got a lot of suspense and action that switched between the two of them. With that said, a couple of things that happened to them seemed over the top and too much time was spent on those elements. The ending of this book leaves a lot to be desired since there isn’t a resolution of all of the pieces to the puzzle but I feel a little better knowing that the second book in this series comes out next week. It follows different characters but I am hopefully that tendrils of this story will continue into that one.
*Thank you to Harlequin for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.”
“TW//CW abuse, child kidnapping, drug abuse, alcoholism, domestic abuse, violence
Missing child always a scary subject for me, but never thought that this book would be so creepy and dark, it's not a long book so I kinda surprised that even though it's a short book it packed quite a punch.
It started with a child whose disappearance echoes a twenty-eight-year-old cold case. So it brings Special agent Thea Lamb back to her hometown to help find that little girl and hopefully find answers to that old cold case. From the beginning the setting is so gloomy and scary, add secrets and old memories and creepy things show up here and there, and then add plenty horrible hair-rising creepy suspects, yup it was a pretty dark read. There's also second chance romance in this book between Thea and Jake, a welcoming breather from all those scary stuff, it brings a sweetness and warmness in this book.
So yeah, a great gripping mystery and suspense story, cute romance, loveable main characters, although I felt a bit dissapointed when I got unanswered questions (I didn't now that this is a series), I still like it a lot and I highly recommend this book for everyone who's looking for a good page-turner fast-paced suspense read.”
“Solid Series Starter. Ok, so I use that same title a fair amount. But it applies so often! Here, Stevens focuses primarily on the investigation, as police procedurals tend to do, while establishing at least her primary leads fairly well, and giving readers reasons to want to continue to invest in them. Arguably one weakness is that this is a *very* slow burn, second chance kind of romance that may or may not meet the strictest "rules and regulations" of the genre in that regard. So for the absolute genre purists... read and decide for yourselves here. For the rest of us, this was a solid story all around, one that resolves its primary mystery while allowing enough to remain open that we'll want to come back to this world again - which is exactly what a Book 1 is supposed to do, so kudos there! Very much recommended.”
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