Dead Don't Lie
L. R. Nicolello
Harlequin HQN, Oct 28 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9780373785001
In Europe, eighteen year old model Evelyn Maslin returns home to
find a DVD apparently sent to her by her family in Seattle. When she plays it, she observes the vicious
slaughtering of her parents and her fourteen years old sister. Numb but she prays this is a cruel prank
until Police Detective Nikols calls to inform her that her family is dead.
Fifteen years later, having changed her surname and motivated by
the slaughter of her family, Seattle Detective Evelyn Davis now is considered
the top profiler in the department, reinforced by the horrible Langdon
homicides. She keeps her distance from
everyone, but her partner Ryan O’Neil, his wife Kate and their children welcome
her as a favorite “relative”. Dinner
with the O’Neil brood ends when their supervisor Captain Kessler tells them
Chief Diaz wants them working a family annihilator case on Mercer Island, the
second in two weeks there. Due to the
mayor’s request, FBI Special Agent Marcus Moretti joins the investigative team. He provides information on the deaths of the
Garland and Middleton family who both had two young daughters. Marcus conceals one thing from Evelyn; that
he wants her on his special task force.
As they work the case that turns Deja vu personal, the Fed and the local
officer fall in love.
Dead Don't Lie is a taut police procedural that grips the audience
from the first family invasion until the final confrontation. Readers will respect Evelyn and admire caring
Marcus even while the serial killer pushes the
heroine’s buttons into mental freefall.
Although the love subplot is unnecessary, this is a tremendous romantic
suspense.
Harriet Klausner
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