This was a really interesting premise but I felt a little lost reading it with not having read the prior books in the series. Despite that disconnect it was still an interesting read and I do intend to read the first books in the series now.

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Rebecca takes on Nicole as a client and is sent down a rabbit hole of dark secrets and the struggles Nicole experienced two years earlier. The story is dialogue-driven and provides readers with various character perspectives to give an overall view of the case. Though, to maintain the suspense, readers are deprived of important details with moments in Nicole's past to explain her character. The back and forth isn't necessarily clear and the story is a slow-burn. Nonetheless, to maintain the suspense, readers are deprived of important details to push the narrative forward.


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Review of eBook

At Jen’s Place, a temporary shelter for survivors of domestic abuse in Lone Tree, Colorado, an angry husband comes in search of his wife. Kyle Logan meets his match, however, in Nicole Veles, the woman who runs the home and keeps Logan from dragging his wife, Linda, out of the house.

Seventeen months later, Nicole is in Saint Louis, seeing the aid of FBI agent-turned Private Investigator Rebecca Marte. Nicole tells the investigator that she killed a man, but she wants Rebecca to look into the supposed suicide of Randolph Peterson.

Did someone inside the HomeRight home warranty company orchestrate events in order to cause Peterson to kill himself? Or, perhaps, the man’s death was not suicide at all.

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Sixth in the author’s Mind Sleuth series, Rebecca Marte returns to investigate the circumstances behind an apparent suicide. Nicole Veles, emotionally damaged from the treatment she endured during her kidnapping some two years earlier, is slowly finding her way back to herself once again. And, although readers are likely to wish for a bit more explanation/information regarding Nicole’s kidnapping, torture, and escape, the book does work as a standalone for readers who have not read the earlier volumes in the series.

Kyle Logan’s antics pull readers into the telling of the tale from the outset. As the narrative unfolds, readers are kept guessing as new revelations change everything they think they know; the suspenseful, tension-filled tale keeps readers turning those pages as swiftly as possible.

Nuanced, well-developed characters and a strong sense of place anchor the narrative; realistic interactions between the characters keep the story credible as the plot twists and turns, heading toward a denouement readers are sure to appreciate.

Highly recommended.

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Allow two days (or one extremely long one) for this adult urban psychological mystery thriller set mainly in Lone Tree, Colorado near Denver.

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