Reviewer: Bob Lind, Echo Magazine
Publisher: Bold Stroke Books, 2013
Pages: 284
Five Stars out of Five
New Orleans private investigator Micky Knight is back. While
having a late pizza dinner, she happens to meet a group of federal
investigators reportedly looking into human trafficking in the area, and Micky
agrees to be hired to assist them. She immediately hits it off with one member
of that team, Ashley, and they begin a slow but steady flirtation as they work
together. It is a frustrating engagement for Micky, because she is only given
details of the case on a need-to-know basis, and gets into dangerous situations
she otherwise may have been able to avoid. She is also being shadowed by Emily,
an FBI agent who likewise seems to have an interest in Micky. During her work
for Ashley, Micky also comes into contact with a local madam, who hires Micky
to provide some security for her “girls,” and may have connections that can be
valuable in finding the traffickers.
While I have read a couple of earlier books in this series, it
doesn’t affect my review of this book. To some extent, it is a credit to the
author that some of her fans are so deeply involved in her books that they feel
they know better than the author about what the characters should be feeling
and doing. Obviously, they are losing sight of the fact that each should be
reviewed on its own merits … the plot, the quality of the writing, how
realistic and plausible it could be, etc. On that level, I can’t fault the book
at all, and, as a fan of good mystery novels, enjoyed it immensely.
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