Book Review - Critical Threat

Never underestimate the power of a bored serial killer, even if he is living out the rest of his days in prison. Especially when he can afford to pull strings for a puppet. Particularly when he has managed to weasel his way into a transfer to the facility where his son is trying to carry on a life out of the tainted shadow cast upon him.

Supervisory Special Agent Grace Billingsley is tasked with building a profile on a serial killer who has mannerisms similar to The Cell Phone Killer. This cannot be the work of Peter Romanos, who is already in prison. But someone is certainly paying homage to him, and Grace has to figure out who is doing this before he takes another victim. Especially when Grace unwittingly catches his interest and set off an obsession that may end up being his undoing.

Sam Monroe has spent years trying to rebuild his life and reconstruct his image after finding out his father was a serial killer and providing the evidence that led to conviction. Now working as a prison psychologist, Sam must work every day with the knowledge that his father is in the same facility and trying consistently to get Sam to answer his phone calls. As the top expert on Peter Romanos, Grace has asked Sam for input while building her current profile.

With a title like Critical Threat and in a series called Extreme Measures, it is no surprise that this  book delivers hits and hooks at every turn. Lynette Eason is at the top of her game with this series and Critical Threat is another shining star.

Critical Threat, Extreme Measures book 3, by Lynette Eason is available now from your favorite local bookseller or online:

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Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.

Book Review - The Rose and the Thistle

Laura Frantz delivers eloquent prose to delight and thrill the senses with her new release, The Rose and the Thistle. Set in the early 18th century, amid the tension of the Jacobite rebellion against the Hanoverian king of Britain, the reader is not so much on the outside looking in as up to their feathered riding hats in intrigue.

Stained by her mother’s notorious behavior at court before she was even born, Lady Blythe Hedley is longing for her father and her home, away from the insipid intrigue of the French court of the Stuart who should be king. However, both her beloved father and Northumbrian home are under watchful eye; therefore, her father must appeal to Lady Blythe’s godfather in Scotland for protection.

On the eve of his father’s passing, Everard, the new Lord Wedderburn, learns of his father’s decision to send for Lady Blythe after she and her companion Elodie are already ensconced in Wedderburn Castle. Now he must decide what to do with these English Catholic Jacobite roses hiding within his Protestant Lowland Scots stronghold. Marrying Blythe may be the best way to guarantee her safety, but Everard wants more from marriage than a solution to political intrigue.

Intrigue is delivered in carriage loads in The Rose and the Thistle. Davey the Devil’s exploits as the spare and not the heir of Wedderburn, Lord Hedley’s insistence upon supplying arms and financial support to the cause of the rebels, the cares thrust upon the shoulders of the new laird as he also takes on the care of his youngest brother, sweet wee Orin. Then a spark lights the smallest candle’s flame which grows to burn a torch in Everard’s heart and mind for the fair Lady Blythe. But romance is not so easy in light of the religious and political perils they must overcome. And marriage just may not be enough to save the life of the fair Lady Blythe.

The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz is available now from your favorite local bookseller or online:

Baker Book House            Christian Book            Barnes & Noble            Amazon

Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.