Nicki`s Life of Crime : BLOG TOUR, BOOK REVIEW

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A missing baby. A family in pieces. A shocking secret never to be told.

Landon and Jennifer Bartlett have everything—money, influence and a picture-perfect family. But it means nothing when their lives are torn apart the day someone breaks into their plush mansion and takes their newborn child right from his cot.

FBI Agent Max Carter investigates child abduction cases. He has a reputation for working all hours to find every missing child on his watch—after all, he was once one himself. When he visits the Bartletts’ sprawling home in an exclusive estate in the suburbs of Seattle, he’s immediately suspicious of Landon Bartlett and his brother Chase.

As Carter delves deeper into the lives of the brothers, he finds a web of dubious business deals and lies that could cost the Bartlett’s their entire family fortune. And it’s clear they will do anything to keep their secrets—but would they withhold vital information that could lead him to baby Ky’s kidnapper?

As Carter begins a cat-and-mouse game with the kidnapper, he receives some startling news from home, which stops him in his tracks. And when a young woman is spotted boarding a bus out of town with a baby fitting Ky’s description, he must decide whether to risk everything to find the missing child or save his own family.

Fans of Kendra Elliot, Melinda Leigh and Robert Dugoni will love this heart-pumping, pulse-racing crime thriller from bestselling author Ed James.

This fast paced thriller is voiced from the perspectives of numerous characters including Max Carter, Chase Bartlett and the kidnapper. I loved Max, he had character and personality traits that were identical to one of my favourite tv characters Jack Malone from Without A Trace. They both had close working relationships with the members of their teams, they were both prepared to break the rules in order to get results. They both had quick tempers and they both had complicated relationships with their fathers. As well as trying to figure out who had taken baby Ky and what the motives were behind their actions and worrying about his father, Max also had to deal with the added complication of his gut feeling that Layla Al - Yasin was still in the area and the possibility that she may have been involved in another kidnapping. Throw into the mix a cunning and unpredictable mafia boss who had his own reasons for finding baby Ky and Max and his team find themselves in a desperate race against time to find the baby before he falls into the wrong hands. Once the truth was revealed,I did feel quite a bit of sympathy for the person who took Ky but when you took into consideration their lack of basic provisions and preparation when they did take him, it made you wonder if he was better off with the Bartletts. But then again, was he? they weren't exactly very cooperative throughout the investigation into their babie's disappearance. Their secrets and reputations came across as more important to them than getting their child back.

This slick and stylish thriller had some seriously intense moments, was packed full of twists and turns and a story that kept you in the edge of your seat. This is the second book in the series and can be read as a stand alone but because of some continuing story lines and references to events from the previous book, it is advisable to read Tell Me Lies before this one. Gone In Seconds is very well written, had some fantastic, well rounded characters and after the cliff hanger ending, I can't wait to read book 3 and find out what happens next

Author Bio:

Ed James is the author of multiple series of crime novels.

The bestselling DI Simon Fenchurch series is set in East London and published by Thomas & Mercer.

The self-published Scott Cullen series of Scottish police procedurals features a young Edinburgh Detective Constable investigating crimes from the bottom rung of the career ladder he's desperate to climb. The first book, "Ghost in the Machine", has been downloaded over 400,000 times, hitting both the Amazon UK & US top five.

The Craig Hunter books is a sister series to the Cullen novels, with a PTSD-suffering ex-squaddie now working as a cop investigating sexual abuse cases. With lots of slapstick and banter.

Ed lives in East Lothian, Scotland and writes full-time, but used to work in IT project management, where he filled his weekly commute to London by literally writing on planes, trains and automobiles.

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PUBLICATION DATE: 12th June 2020

PRINT LENGTH: 358 Pages

PUBLISHER: Bookouture

ASIN: BO88FP74XH

GENRE: Police Procedural

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