A review by kimberwolf
Deadline by Sandra Brown

3.0

Journalist Dawson Scott has just returned from covering a war overseas that's violence has left him haunted and mentally fatigued. His new editor assigns a story to him while, at the same time, he receives a tip from a source at the FBI that an old, unsolved case he'd reported on years ago was rearing its head again. Dawson decides to follow up on that old case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a man whose biological parents are on the FBI most-wanted list. While covering the story, Dawson meets Amelia, the missing man's wife/widow, and develops feelings for her and her two sons.

While I used to read quite a lot of Sandra Brown, and I enjoyed this story, the two novels of hers that I've read recently don't appeal to me as much as they used to. I still love mystery and suspense, but I've developed a strong preference for Nordic noir types of mysteries and also paranormal mysteries, and these stories don't fit into either of those categories.