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Hunter’s most twisted killer. Cam’s most dangerous case.
“SO WHO GOT DEAD?”
Twee asked, taking a pastry. Merisi pulled
the plate away from her and closer to himself.
“Three little boys," Hunter told them.
"The fourth went missing this morning. If this killer’s M.O. hasn’t
changed, the boy’s not dead yet.”
“You’re
talking about the Wilderness Killer?” Diane Natani asked. “That’s McCauley’s
case. How is our unit getting it?”
“The victim is the governor’s nephew.
McCauley and his team haven’t gotten anywhere in a year. The governor requested
us, and we’re taking over.”
“Well, that shouldn’t cause
any resentment.” Merisi dunked half a doughnut into his coffee.
“It’s a recipe for a clusterfuck, Boss,” Twee
said.
"True. It’s also exactly the kind of
case this Unit was created to handle."
Natani tossed down her pen. “We have
political interference, departmental incompetence, personal resentment, and a
boy who will die within eight hours. Somewhere.”
"No problem. We find the killer and get
him to tell us where in the 1200 square miles of Colorado wilderness he staked
out the governor’s nephew.” Merisi punctuated this with an eyeroll.
“The first part got done about an hour ago.”
Assistant District Attorney Natani perked up.
“We have a suspect?”
Hunter nodded. "We do. Now I just have
to get him to talk.”
“Just get him to talk?” Merisi tilted his
chair back. “He’ll lawyer up before you can say ‘You have the right’ and a
keyhole satellite couldn’t find this kid.”
“You're forgetting the Boss’s cardinal rule.”
Twee pulled the plate back toward herself and Merisi’s chair came down with a
sharp bang.
“Yeah? What's that?"
“Never assume.”
If you like a master gamesman for a detective and a few twists in your
criminal cocktail, you want to read this.
A STAND-ALONE
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Unless you’ve never seen one of my reviews before, you probably know I’m
a HUGE fan of Hunt & Cam. I’ve been with them from the very start and eagerly
await every subsequent book. These two men are glorious together. Made for each
other, Hunter Dane and Camden Snow come to life on the pages of these stories,
and worm their way into your heart and head…well, they did for me.
But, if you’ve read the previous stories, you probably need to know that
this book is different from the earlier titles. Where the older stories focus
on the relationship between Hunt and Cam and their D/s dynamic with Hunter day
job taking a (growing) backseat, The Interrogation is a pure and simple
thriller. While the feelings they have for each other are still vivid, there
are no on-the-page sex scenes to be found in this story.
As for the crime? When a young boy disappears, Hunter is put in charge of
the case. The kidnapper is soon apprehended, but there’s no sign of the boy. He’s
been left, somewhere in the wilderness to die a slow and horrible death in a
blizzard that’s about to strike in a matter of hours. In a race against time,
Hunter must get the man to talk while Cam is out searching for his victim. As
the snow starts to fall, more than one life is at stake.
I have to admit that before I started The Interrogation I wondered if I
would miss those extremely enticing scenes. Would Hunt & Cam be able to
captivate me as much without getting their clothes off, without their ever so
imaginative sexual encounters?
I’m very happy that I’m able to answer that question with a
whole-hearted ‘YES’. The investigation in this story, the search for the young
missing boy, and the tension during the interrogation were so intense that I
didn’t have time to miss the sex. In fact, the timeline in this story is so
tight that any time-out for private escapades would have felt wrong, contrived,
and shoe-horned in. And yet, even without describing any explicit intimacies,
the reader is never in any doubt how much these men mean to each other, how
they live and breath for and because of the other.
This is one of those stories that forces the reader to pay close
attention. Nothing is exactly what it seems. Nothing unfolds as you might
expect. And you’ll find yourself torn between wanting to read slowly, just to
make sure you don’t miss anything, and the urge to rush along and discover how
it all ends. Between a manipulative perpetrator, policing politics and
rivalries, an innocent young victim, a race against time, and a heroic dog,
there really isn’t anything in this book not to love. But, best of all, as
always, are Hunter and Camden: two heroes so perfect they shouldn’t work and
yet manage to be memorable and incredibly more-ish.
Can I have the next book, please?
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