The Betrayed
Heather Graham
Harlequin MIRA, Sep 30 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9780778316565
Hearing the accepting voice of Richard
Highsmith, FBI Krewe of Hunters New York branch Agent Aidan Mahoney abruptly
awakens to find no one in his room; but knowing his Westchester County friend
is dead. Soon afterward, Krewe boss
Jackson Crow assigns Aidan to help locals search for the missing Highsmith in
nearby Tarrytown.
The police use Maureen Deauville and her
companion Rollo the wolfhound to assist them because they have a special knack
of locating missing people; usually after they died. In Sleepy Hollow, Mo and Rollo discover Richard’s
severed head on the top of a wooden headless horseman in front of the Headless
Horseman Hideaway Restaurant and Bar.
Richard arrives to join the inquiry that has become a homicide
investigation. As other gruesome murders
occur; Richard, Mo and Rollo team up with the adults reluctantly falling in
love.
The latest Krewe of Hunters urban fantasy police procedural (see
The Cursed and The Hexed) is an entertaining suspense due more to a diabolical
serial killer than the lead trio especially since the romance seems somewhat
late and abrupt. The thrilling hunt for
a deadly psychopath in Washington Irving’s Westchester makes this overall a
good Krewe novel.
Harriet Klausner
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