Seven Girls Gone ( (A Quinn & Costa Thriller Book 4) by Allison Brennan. Ontario:Mira, 2023. 433 pages ***
St. Augustine, Louisiana, where the main activity in town is a bar with benefits is no stranger to fights and violence. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who cares when women are missing and show up dead. Amidst rumors of corruption in the police department, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI’s Mobile Response Team. LAPD detective Kara Quinn also arrives and works undercover to make friends with some of the local women and to hang out in the town's bars. When she is stopped by a local police office for coasting through a stop sign and is searched more thoroughly than is comfortable or allowed by law, she is determined take that officer down. When Team leader Matt Costa investigates the in-custody death of a witness, the case takes a new direction and begins to unravel. Beau realizes that he will need to solve the case quickly and cleanly or he will no longer be welcome or safe in his hometown.
I received an ecopy for a review.
Even though I did not read the first three books in the series, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. The relationships among the main characters are complex and add to the suspense in the story. I suspect there is still a small- town mentality in existence where there are limited education and few job opportunities and where money is at the root of violence.
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Allison Brennan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award winning author of three dozen thrillers and numerous short stories. She was nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by International Thriller Writers, had multiple nominations and two Daphne du Maurier Awards, and is a five-time RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense. Allison believes life is too short to be bored, so she had five kids and spends all her non-writing time as a sports spectator, chauffeur, and short-order cook for her munchkins. She has a dog, two cats, and three chickens. Allison and her family live in northern California.
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