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kathydavie's review against another edition
3.0
First in the Tracers suspense series.
The Story
Alex Lovell is furious. A woman she had helped to escape an abusive husband has come back to town and is now missing. Asking Nathan Devereaux, a local cop, for help seems to have been a mistake. After all, her main suspect is Melanie's husband, a fellow cop.
And then Troy Stockton, an old boyfriend and true crime writer, steps in to introduce her to the Delphi Center, a lab with state-of-the-art equipment who could user her incredible computer skills.
The Characters
Alex Lovell is a private investigator who gets easily bored with staying in the same place for too long. She met Nathan Devereaux, a police detective, when a man involved in one of her cases broke into her office and beat her badly.
I suspect the following will be showing up in future installments: Troy Stockton, a true crime writer with a hit film based on one of his books and lots and lots of contacts in the law enforcement community and a real hard-on for the ladies; John Holt, a Texas Ranger; Mia Voss, a forensic scientist at the Delphi Center.
My Take
Alex kind of irritates me. With very little actual proof, she is absolutely determined to see Craig Congan as the bad guy and she simply accepts what her clients tell her as absolute proof. She never really investigates what they tell her. Then she gets all pissy when no one will accept her unprovable word as absolute fact. Arghh!
That said, the story itself was riveting and the methods Alex used to lay a false trail to hide Melanie's whereabouts was quite intriguing.
The Cover
The cover is very pretty. I really like how they managed the impression of rain streaming down as though it were the windshield of a car. The image the rain distorts is a fuzzy landscape with forests on either side of a wide-banked stream meandering back into the landscape.
The title is apt as Alex did her best to make Melanie Congan's disappearance Untraceable.
The Story
Alex Lovell is furious. A woman she had helped to escape an abusive husband has come back to town and is now missing. Asking Nathan Devereaux, a local cop, for help seems to have been a mistake. After all, her main suspect is Melanie's husband, a fellow cop.
And then Troy Stockton, an old boyfriend and true crime writer, steps in to introduce her to the Delphi Center, a lab with state-of-the-art equipment who could user her incredible computer skills.
The Characters
Alex Lovell is a private investigator who gets easily bored with staying in the same place for too long. She met Nathan Devereaux, a police detective, when a man involved in one of her cases broke into her office and beat her badly.
I suspect the following will be showing up in future installments: Troy Stockton, a true crime writer with a hit film based on one of his books and lots and lots of contacts in the law enforcement community and a real hard-on for the ladies; John Holt, a Texas Ranger; Mia Voss, a forensic scientist at the Delphi Center.
My Take
Alex kind of irritates me. With very little actual proof, she is absolutely determined to see Craig Congan as the bad guy and she simply accepts what her clients tell her as absolute proof. She never really investigates what they tell her. Then she gets all pissy when no one will accept her unprovable word as absolute fact. Arghh!
That said, the story itself was riveting and the methods Alex used to lay a false trail to hide Melanie's whereabouts was quite intriguing.
The Cover
The cover is very pretty. I really like how they managed the impression of rain streaming down as though it were the windshield of a car. The image the rain distorts is a fuzzy landscape with forests on either side of a wide-banked stream meandering back into the landscape.
The title is apt as Alex did her best to make Melanie Congan's disappearance Untraceable.
kateafur's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
gotbrie's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I really enjoyed this. It doesn't do that thing that do many romantic suspense novels do where the FMC is completely hopeless and is completely relaxation on the MMC. Alex is a very enjoyable character and she holds her own very easily. Very good
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use
tayparks's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
devansbooklife's review against another edition
4.0
Great story. Easy read. I got lost in the book very easily.
xlynt's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
olivia_rita's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.75
thatnerd's review
2.0
This book was worth the $0.99 I paid for it, but there's no way I'd ever pay full price for it. I can't say I'll continue with this series OR read another book by this author, though. I didn't care for the characters, even though I thought the storyline was okay. I found the heroine VERY annoying. She gets angry when her love interest doesn't just take what she says at face value ("you don't believe me" blah blah), and it feels like one minute the author is trying to write her as a strong female lead, then the next as a weakling. Is she anti-relationship or does she want a relationship? Why is she so weak and naive when it comes to the woman she is so hellbent on helping? Felt like the author adjusted the character for *that* particular point of the story. I also found it annoying that there was practically NO character development for the villain of the story. I could have done without the sex scenes and romantic subplot, but I guess as this is a "romantic suspense" book, I shouldn't complain about that.
jenlynnhill's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the story, but based on the description, I thought there would be a little more to the forensic side of it, learning how the tracers traced, so that part let me down. But it was interesting and kept me engaged, although not enough to make me want to keep reading the series.