When life is murder, who can you trust? One minute Mia Quinn is in her basement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor’s office. The next minute she hears a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror as her colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death. Mia’s a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days it’s all she can do to hold her life together. As … her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less–and working Colleen’s case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So Mia reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold–even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after her.
Lis Wiehl’s signature plot twists and relatable characters shine in this absorbing series debut . . . with an intriguing cameo from her best-selling Triple Threat series.
“A stunning crime series debut . . . Smart, suspenseful, and full of twists that only an insider like Wiehl could pull off .” –Linda Fairstein, New York Times best-selling author
more
I would give more stars if it were possible. I love this author. This book is one in the Mia Quinn series.
Mia she is likable, and trying to hold it together for her two children. Gabe is fourteen and pushing her buttons, while he is trying to fit in at school , football and taking care of Brooke his four year old sister. He is challenging Mia at every turn. A phone call with Colleen, and her not answering turned her world upside down. Giving phone to Gabe to see if she answers, Mia goes to her friends house and met with police had responded after getting her call. Her boss asks her to work with Charlie who is investigating, to see what happened. She also is working on the death of a young kid from being bullied. Is there a connection to a cold case of another prosecutor death.
A story that shows a young mother and her love of being a mother. A widow finding she didn’t know her husband the last few years, and a post office box of what that revealed. A good mystery with a tense plot to the end.
This book will grab you from the beginning and hold tight until the mystery is solved. Then you have a subplot of bullying in school which is a real issue in society today. Though the main character, Mia Quinn, is struggling, she is a strong woman who does her best to raise her children to be the people they should while working as a criminal prosecutor. Lots of thrills throughout the pages make this an exciting read.
This is number one of a 3 book series and I did like it, but not very much. I couldn’t relate to Mia Quinn, the prosecutor main character; she just was not sympathetic for me. At times during the story I couldn’t care about her at all. The mystery plot was good and kept the story moving. I didn’t see who really did it until the reveal; that was well done, and believable too. It was annoying to see Mia hyped up to the readers as some kind of super hero because she was a single mom with a demanding job and issues/worries about her kids (just not interesting or fun reading for me). I did it and many of my friends did it, and I see no reason to devote so much of the novel to that. The character of Charlie, the police detective, was well done, and I found myself liking him more than Mia. Finally, there was some vague preaching about the need for understanding that guns are needed by the general populace because the criminals have them. It was not terribly overt, but I caught it and it was annoying. The author is a regular on Fox news, so we already know where she stands. We don’t need it in her fiction, I think. Just my own thoughts. So, while the mystery was well plotted and I did like how that part ended, I probably will not be reading #2.
Good read!
loved this book! Will read more by this author!