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A review by nikkihrose
Best Laid Plans by Allison Brennan
4.0
After being put on a two-week unpaid suspension for disobeying direct orders (in the eighth installment of the series), Lucy has been back at the San Antonio FBI office for a couple of months, still attempting to get into the good graces with her coworkers in order to make up for the loss of trust that had resulted from doing what she believed to be right. After specifically losing the trust of her partner during Operation Heatwave, Lucy is now placed with Special Agent Barry Crawford — a man who works his job by the book, and cuts out at 5pm every day. While originally put off by this, Barry teaches Lucy the importance of shutting of the job when at home, allowing her and boyfriend Sean Rogan, to break through even more of her barriers and walls that she had implemented after her attack eight years ago. But Barry is secretly scouting out Kincaid for their boss, SSA Juan Casilla, to make sure that she is capable of continuing the job — and in the process, he risks losing her trust despite the fact that he actually respects her instincts and unique skill set.
Special Agents Kincaid and Crawford begin investigating a highly regarded businessman and husband to a congresswoman, Harper Worthington’s murder. Throughout their investigation they are led through various paths to track down the truth. Crossing paths with Mona Hill, a woman in charge of over one-third of the sex trade in southern Texas; Adeline Reyes-Worthington, the wife of the deceased and a sitting congresswoman; Elise Hansen, a prostitute that no one seems to know; and Tobias, the mysterious man responsible for the drug cartel case that Lucy had illegally helped stop in Mexico in the eighth installment two months earlier. At first, many different cases seem to be looming over the heads of the FBI agents, with no common strings — but everything feels either too fabricated or too random to Lucy, and her instincts are rarely wrong. Through further investigation, and finally standing up for herself amongst her colleagues, Kincaid and Crawford get to the bottom of it with help from Brad Donnelly of the DEA and Tia Mancini who specializes in cases involving the sex trade. This is one of the first novels of the series where the main characters of the book are constantly being manipulated and thrown in the wrong direction without catching it immediately, further showing their humanity and the potential reality to the situation being constructed by Brennan.
Special Agents Kincaid and Crawford begin investigating a highly regarded businessman and husband to a congresswoman, Harper Worthington’s murder. Throughout their investigation they are led through various paths to track down the truth. Crossing paths with Mona Hill, a woman in charge of over one-third of the sex trade in southern Texas; Adeline Reyes-Worthington, the wife of the deceased and a sitting congresswoman; Elise Hansen, a prostitute that no one seems to know; and Tobias, the mysterious man responsible for the drug cartel case that Lucy had illegally helped stop in Mexico in the eighth installment two months earlier. At first, many different cases seem to be looming over the heads of the FBI agents, with no common strings — but everything feels either too fabricated or too random to Lucy, and her instincts are rarely wrong. Through further investigation, and finally standing up for herself amongst her colleagues, Kincaid and Crawford get to the bottom of it with help from Brad Donnelly of the DEA and Tia Mancini who specializes in cases involving the sex trade. This is one of the first novels of the series where the main characters of the book are constantly being manipulated and thrown in the wrong direction without catching it immediately, further showing their humanity and the potential reality to the situation being constructed by Brennan.