The Swap: A Nicole Graves Mystery (Nicole Graves Mysteries Book 1)

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I also really enjoyed all the scenes where the characters were in danger, such as various cat and mouse chases (between herself, the victims and the perpetrators).

Boyarsky's weightless complications expertly combine menace with bling, making the heroine's adventures both nightmarish and dreamy. As a lover of the early Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton I struggled to develop an attachment to Nicole in the same way. This is a fast-paced, nail-biter, that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last.Many thanks to the author / INscribe Digital / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. She was in some kind of high-roller circle at Neiman Marcus that gave her entry to a VIP dining room.

I didn't find this impacted me at all with reading the Ransom, and there was sufficient explanation and detail for the Ransom to stand on it's own. A.’s downtown central library, behind the books on a shelf holding copies of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. But I will say that we’ve looked into the MO of the perps, and it fits the pattern of the earlier kidnappings. The plot within this story was quite simple and nowhere near as involved or intricate as in the three earlier novels. Nicole believes Abigail has been framed, but the victim's tight-knit circle of friends and relatives are most unwilling to talk to an American detective.

But she’d already made up her mind that the first person she’d get in touch with would be Antonia—no last name given, just the word housekeeper—who appeared under A in Ashley’s address book. Now, six weeks later, Victoria Reina was still missing, and the police didn’t seem to have a clue to her whereabouts. Every month, Brad would come to me asking for fifteen thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars from his trust. As a wedding gift, Rexton said, I gave them three pieces of art that were worth a good amount of money. As Nicole walked over to the desk, she noticed it was completely clean except for a silver-toned telephone with a lot of buttons.

Soon after, the state of California informed her that anything left after taxes would go to the state’s Victim’s Restitution Fund, which is what often happens with criminal proceeds.Of course, a novel set in America written by an American, can miss the spot with some readers in other English speaking countries. The tabloids had a field day with the story, referring to the perpetrators as the All’s-Well Kidnappers.

Kirkus Reviews Nicole Graves, still reeling from her London kidnapping in The Swap, is struggling to balance work at L. Surely, he didn’t expect her to investigate a murder-kidnapping when law enforcement would be all over it.In the most recent home invasion, which involved Brad and Ashley Rexton, things had gone wrong from the start.