Friday, May 10, 2019

Criminal Behavior Review

Title:  Criminal Behavior
Series:  Twilight's Children #1
Author:  Amanda Stevens
Genre:  Romance/Suspense Thriller
Publisher:  Harlequin Intrigue
Release Date:  May 1, 2019/ April 16, 2019
Purchase Link:  Amazon


My Rating:  4 Atmospheric Hearts


*With many thanks to the author for a review copy of this book.

Synopsis:
Together, can they find the Twilight Killer…

Before he finds them?

Special Agent Ethan Barrow’s father was the most brilliant FBI profiler of all time. Now he’s in a psychiatric ward, committed for the very crimes he cased. But new evidence leads Ethan straight to Detective Adaline Kinsella—the woman he had a past with ten years earlier. Addie can trust evidence…even if she can’t trust the emotions Ethan elicits. Can she now put the past aside to bring the real Twilight Killer to justice?

Review:
Criminal Behavior is the first book in a new romance suspense thriller series titled "Twilight's Children" by author Amanda Stevens.  This author's books are always highly atmospheric (remember The Graveyard Queen series?!), and she sets the creepy, ominous tone early and builds on it from beginning to end in this new one.  

Agent Ethan Barrow has never given up on exonerating his father from a murder conviction in a case that sent him over the edge and into a psychiatric ward.  Now ten years later, Ethan has new evidence he's sure will clear his father's name . . . if he can convince his ex-love Det. Adaline Kinsella to team up with him once again.  The only issue is Adaline is convinced of Ethan's father's guilt and believes the right man is locked away.  A man guilty of murdering her mother.  But - someone is taunting and threatening Adaline.  Is the right...or wrong man in prison?

Criminal Behavior is a twisted suspense story that unfolds with a creepy, impending doom kind of vibe.  The setting is masterfully woven into the scenes setting a mood and causing this reader to stay on the edge of her seat throughout.  Well-developed characters carry this story through several twists and turns and kept me guessing until the end.  The romance is secondary and pretty low-key as the case is the focus of this book.  I will say I felt that the ending was a bit rushed after all the time spent building the suspense, but it in no way diminished my enjoyment of this story.  I can't wait for the release of book 2!  A Must Read!

My Rating:  4 Highly Atmospheric Hearts . . . And that's the truth!
Cross My Heart . . . xxx
Sandra

  

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