Friday, December 17, 2021

** Book Review- Deadly Target (Rocky Mountain Courage Book #2) by Elizabeth Goddard

     

Christian

  The race is on for the truth in this gripping and complex tale of suspense, intrigue, and murder from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard.

Criminal psychologist Erin Larson's dreams of a successful career come to a screeching halt when she nearly loses her own life in a boating accident on Puget Sound and then learns that her mother tried to commit suicide. She leaves her job as a criminal psychologist to care for her mother in Montana. At least she is able to produce her podcast, which focuses on solving missing persons cold cases.

Nathan Campbell's father was investigating such a case when he was shot, and now Nathan needs to enlist Erin's help to solve the case. She's good at what she does. The only problem? She's his ex.

As the two dig deeper, it becomes clear that they, too, are being targeted--and that the answers to their questions are buried deep within the past Erin struggles to explain and longs to forget.   AMAZON LINK

4 STARS

 This was definitely a twisty turn-y story!  It's filled with great people, plenty of emotions and plenty of secrets.  Secrets that people are prepared to kill for !

Erin has a secret and her past has often paralyzed her.  It even caused her to run from forming a solid relationship with Nathan.  That caused hurt to the current day not only for her but for Nathan too.  I also got the feeling that Erin's mom had a secret or two as well.  

Nathan is a good guy with issues of his own with some of them coming from his daddy.  I liked that he often did point out the fact to Erin that there were often "Silver Linings" in life. Now, that isn't something I've heard in a while but always did like.  

The only thing that I would say bothered me was that it felt like too much time was spent over the fact that they couldn't be together.  The angst on Erin's part got touched on time after time.  And at that time without any hope of finding out why.

Faith in God and scripture is also a part of this story but without overriding the plot, IMO.  

Things start out innocent enough until things started moving.  And boy, then they started moving they really took off.  Dangerous actions from several different directions really did leave you wondering who to trust.   But the biggest surprise is left until almost the end.  It was a biggie.  And left me wondering once again how in the world would anyone get out of this alive and have a chance for a normal life. 

The ending warmed my heart.


I received an ARC through Netgalley and am voluntarily providing an honest review.

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