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In rain-drenched Vancouver, detectives Dion and Leith work to separate truth from lies in two seemingly unrelated cases.
February is the month of romance, but in North Vancouver it’s also become the month of murder. While the North Shore RCMP slog through the rain in the search for whoever left a young woman to die in the Riverside Secondary School parking lot — their first clue a Valentine’s Day card — a toddler mysteriously vanishes from a Riverside Drive home in the midst of a dinner party.
With Constable JD Temple's full attention on the parking lot murder, Constables Dave Leith and Cal Dion work the kidnap … until a tenuous connection is made between the two cases, along with the thinnest ray of hope that the child could be alive and well in the hands of a childless couple. But when more tragedy rains down on the North Shore, lies must be unveiled before the ugly truth can emerge.
February is the month of romance, but in North Vancouver it’s also become the month of murder. While the North Shore RCMP slog through the rain in the search for whoever left a young woman to die in the Riverside Secondary School parking lot — their first clue a Valentine’s Day card — a toddler mysteriously vanishes from a Riverside Drive home in the midst of a dinner party.
With Constable JD Temple's full attention on the parking lot murder, Constables Dave Leith and Cal Dion work the kidnap … until a tenuous connection is made between the two cases, along with the thinnest ray of hope that the child could be alive and well in the hands of a childless couple. But when more tragedy rains down on the North Shore, lies must be unveiled before the ugly truth can emerge.
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Mandi_Reads
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“You can read this as a stand alone book but there were parts in the book where I knew I was missing some backstory that would have made more sense had I read the first four books, but I didn't miss so much that it impacted my ability to follow the plot.
The book starts with a crime occurring in a school parking lot and you start following the investigation only to have another crime occur and the storyline is taken over by this crime. It's only towards the end of the book do you really come back around to the first crime again.
This was a harder book for me to read as it seemed to jump around and had too much going on; with two crimes being openly investigated, a secret investigation and a lot of personal relationships which seemed overly dramatic. If you like RM Greenway and/or have read the other four books first, you might find this a more enjoyable read.
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You can read this as a stand alone book but there were parts in the book where I knew I was missing some backstory that would have made more sense had I read the first four books, but I didn't miss so much that it impacted my ability to follow the plot.
The book starts with a crime occurring in a school parking lot and you start following the investigation only to have another crime occur and the storyline is taken over by this crime. It's only towards the end of the book do you really come back around to the first crime again.
This was a harder book for me to read as it seemed to jump around and had too much going on; with two crimes being openly investigated, a secret investigation and a lot of personal relationships which seemed overly dramatic. If you like RM Greenway and/or have read the other four books first, you might find this a more enjoyable read.”
Cindy
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“Thank you netgalley for the copy! This book was definitely suspenseful. At first there were soo many story lines I couldn’t see how it could all be connected but the author did a great job connecting everything together!”
“This is a new author to me, and the first in this series that I have read, but it certainly won’t be the last, I need to read the previous 4 books after finishing this one. This can be read as a stand-alone novel, however I think some of the dynamics between the characters may be better understood, if the previous books have been read. But, that is just me, I like to start at the beginning of a series and get to know characters.
It’s February, and the North Shore RCMP have to brave the cold, wind and rain, when a young woman’s body is found in the car park of Riverside Secondary School, she had been working as a janitor, staying behind a bit late to finish cleaning. She had then left, looking forward to going to her boyfriends, for a Valentines meal he was cooking for her. Needless to say she never made it. Constable Judy Temple is assigned the investigation into her death.
Meanwhile, in a wealthier area, a thirteen month old baby girl Luna Mae, has gone missing from her home, whilst her mother and stepfather are hosting a dinner party. Constable Dave Leith and Cal Dion are tasked at looking into the toddlers disappearance. Has she been kidnapped? Could she have wandered off? Have the mother and step father hurt her? The whole home situation is complicated, before meeting her current husband, the mother was married to Luna’s father, they had adopted his older niece and nephew after their parents had died, but it seems the older children are keeping secrets.
There are a number of other things going on beside these two plot lines, Judy overhears something from Dion’s past, that could be a career breaker, if it comes out.
This is a clever, at times complicated gripping read, the characters are relatable, believable, some have flaws, but that makes them human and more believable and three dimensional. A great police procedural with a lot of plot twists and turns to keep the reader engaged, and guessing. There are a lot of themes explored, drug use, lies, murder, custody battles, relationships, which adds to the layers of the story. It’s not an easy story to solve, with a few unreliable suspects thrown in.
Whilst the murder and disappearing child case are cleared up, other loose ends are left open, presumably to be continued in the next book in the series. I am glad the author didn’t rush to tie up everything as sometimes this can seem rushed at the end to fit everything in.
If you like police procedurals this is a book I would recommend, I am going to look for the previous books in the series, so that I can get to know more about the characters dynamics better, great style of writing and good pace, with lots going on.
I would like to thank #netgalley and #Dundurnpublishers for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest, fair and unbiased review.”
Nicole Lara
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“Thank you Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. Unfortunately this was one of the worst books I have read in a very long time. Going into it, I did not realise it was part of a series. This made some of the storyline to be confusing. Despite that, this book was still awful. The female characters were unnecessarily crass in their behaviours. The writing style was very juvenile. I do not recommend this book at all.”
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