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1st Victim, The (2014)

by Tami Hoag(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1480542032 (ISBN13: 9781480542037)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: It’s New Year’s Day and Jeannie Reiser hasn’t heard from her teenage daughter, Rose, in several days. After the death of Jeannie’s husband, Rose always kept in close contact with her mother even though she has been away at college. Jeannie reports Rose as missing to the police but they aren’t taking the case seriously. Rose is 18 years old and they figure kids that age often don’t contact their parents when they are at college. Jeannie can’t make them understand the special bond she shares with Rose. So, she takes matters into her own hands and tries to find her daughter herself.Detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Laska are called to the scene when a young girl is found dead alongside a road. She has no identification and is labeled New Year’s Jane Doe. The dete... morectives are determined to find out who she is and give her family some type of closure.Jeannie’s search leads her to Kovac and Laska, but is their Jane Doe her daughter?This is a short novella but it’s packed with intense drama. I couldn’t put this down for a second. It’s part of Hoag’s Kovac and Laska series, which I didn’t realize before I started reading. It didn’t matter that I didn’t read the previous books (this is #3.5) as the mystery itself stood alone and seems to be a kind of prequel to the next book in the series. It appears that book #4, The 9th Girl, picks up where this one left off. So, I will definitely be reading that one too and, most likely, going back and start from the beginning. I want to know more about Kovac and Laska.This is edge-of-your-seat reading. I know I kept anticipating what was going to happen and I was totally absorbed into this story. Sometimes novellas don’t have much of an impact on the readers, but I thought this one did.FTC Disclosure: NetGalley provided me with a copy of this book to review. This did not influence my thoughts and opinions in any way. All opinions expressed are my own.
review 2: Tami Hoag gets us all set up in this short story for what promises to be a roller coaster ride in her upcoming book The 9th Victim. In The 1st Victim, veteran homicide detectives, Kovac and Liska get a busy start to the new year when a young girl is found dead on the side of the road. As the investigation gets underway a pattern seems to be forming...young women across the country killed on Halloween, Thanksgiving, and now New Year's. What began as an isolated murder now points to a potential serial killer. I am looking forward to the release of The 9th Victim hoping that Kovac and Liska get the bad guy and that justice will be served. less

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