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    Desperate Acts by Alexandra Ivy

    written by Dísir
    Desperate Acts by Alexandra IvyDesperate Acts by Alexandra Ivy
    Series: Pike, Wisconsin, #4, #4, #4
    Published by Zebra on 21st February 2023
    Pages: 352
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    three-stars

    WILL SHE FIND THE ANSWER

    Teenager Lia Porter shouldn't have been anywhere near the railroad bridge that night. Sneaking home after a party in the fields outside Pike, Wisconsin, she glimpsed a woman in a leather jacket, running in terror. Lia puts the incident from her mind--until a body is found near the same spot fifteen years later, wearing the same jacket. The police rule it a suicide. Lia knows different. The woman she saw was trying to save her own life, not end it. But whatever she was fleeing from found her first . . .

    BEFORE THE KILLER

    The stranger who arrives at Lia's store shares her suspicions. Hollywood stunt driver Kaden Vaughn has come home to Wisconsin to learn the truth about what happened to his brother's fianc�e years ago. The leather jacket, the timing--he believes the dead woman is Vanna, and that Lia may be the only person who can help. Together they retrace Vanna's steps, but the more they dig, the darker the secrets become.

    FINDS HER?

    The killer is still out there, stalking the streets of Pike again, willing to do whatever is necessary to keep the truth locked in mystery. One by one, all those who know something about that night must be silenced, until there is no one left to tell . . .

    Something’s rotten in the town of Pike, at least according to Alexandra Ivy’s small-town series, where decades-old murder mysteries abound and townsfolk get cagey about it.

    In ‘Desperate Acts’, Lia Porter unwittingly tangles with several figures of authority after revealing her involvement in a potential murder case when she was the last to have seen the victim alive and gets caught up with an unlikely visitor seeking some answers of his own. Both Lia and Karen Vaughn play at detectives; it’s a sort of amateur sleuthing that can only go so far—both of them acknowledge it as well—but what do you do then, when the straight-laced, honest ones are sorely lacking and everything else is hindered by some guilty party?

    I thought the case was quite interesting when viewed ‘objectively’ in a sense up until a (somewhat cheesy and overused) point where the perpetrator spent the last bit of the book self-righteously boasting—perhaps also quite one-dimensionally—about their cleverness and deeds when things finally came to a head. Yet both victim and perpetrator were portrayed as unlikeable and rotten and I’d actually started to think that Lia/Kaden were simply better off letting Pike stew in its own messy soup of murder mysteries.

    I also wasn’t too convinced that Kaden was suddenly all into the new relationship with Lia beyond the pulsing attraction between them after just a few meetings; that it had turned so quickly to love and utter devotion by midway through had me baffled and incredulous when I thought that should have been something deeper maybe that would have tied them together.

    Still, this was an easy read, delivering the body-dropping numbers with a bit of B-movie type clichés and thrills and will easily provide an entertaining night in.

    three-stars
    Desperate Acts by Alexandra Ivy was last modified: November 25th, 2022 by Dísir
    25th November 2022 0 comment
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    The Rogue by Kimberly Kincaid

    by Dísir 23rd May 2022

    The Rogue by Kimberly Kincaid Series: The Intelligence Unit, #4, #4 Published by Kimberly Kincaid Romance on 10th May 2022 Pages: 262 Buy on Amazon Goodreads The scars that cut…

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    Kiss Hard by Nalini Singh

    by Dísir 18th April 2022

    Kiss Hard by Nalini Singh Series: Hard Play, #4, #4 Published by TKA Distribution on 3rd May 2022 Pages: 329 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Daniel Esera is a young god…

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