Two missing persons. One apparent suicide. Three cases pushing PI Jessie Cole and crime reporter Ben Morrison closer to the edge.Lacey Geiger could be a very rich woman. If Jessie Cole can find her. The beneficiary of a sizable estate, Lacey vanished years ago after escaping an abusive childhood and is veiled now behind a new identity. Jessie has two weeks to find her. It’s enough time to … enough time to discover that Lacey is hiding from so much more than anyone realized. But she isn’t the only one with secrets. And Jessie’s not the only one searching for the truth.
A concerned daughter has asked for help finding her mother—a woman said to have been murdered thirty years ago. And Jessie’s colleague Ben, an amnesiac still struggling with the bloody memories of a shattered life, is nearer to piecing together a very dark picture. Especially when someone he detests is found dead, hanging from a tree by a riverbank.
Now as the mysteries, puzzles, and lies of three investigations are unearthed, Jessie and Ben will risk everything to bring all that is hidden into the light.
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In the start of this next book Jessie is tasked with finding a young woman named Lacey who has a sizeable amount of money waiting for her if she can be found by a certain time. You see Lacey ran away years ago to escape the abuse that she was handed from her step father, her mother just let it happen. She decided to escape the horrors of her once good home and change her identity so that they could never find her. Meanwhile she has another client, a young girl searching for a mother who she now believes is alive, her father is in prison for killing her. She now believes that her mother is alive and that her dad has spent all this time locked up for nothing. Follow along with Jessie as she delves into both cases and soon learns the secrets buried deep in both cases. Meanwhile her friend Ben is still having memory issues but certain things are coming to light. When someone he knows ends up dead he becomes one of the suspects in the mans death. Will the police find anything while investigating him or has he hidden all his secrets well? How will he feel about the new things that he does remember and where will this new found knowledge take him? This was a great read filled with lots of twists and turns taking you all the way to the end wondering who did what. I’m so enjoying this authors work and can’t wait to pick up what she publishes next!!!
4.5 stars
Private Investigator Jessie Cole is back along with Zee, her schizophrenic assistant and budding PI, her boyfriend, Detective Colin Grayson, and her good friend, Ben Morrison, a crime reporter for the local newspaper.
Zee does well as long as she takes her medications, but the three distinct voices she hears never really go away. She thinks she’d actually be lonely if they did.
Ben was in a car accident 10 years ago. He’s lost all memory of any time before that. But he does have visions/hallucinations of extremely violent crimes. Are these just in his imagination … or are they showing him a glimpse of his life pre-amnesia?
Jessie is having a busy day. A woman wants her to look for her mother who has been gone for 30 years. Her father was accused of killing her although her body was never found. He spent 10 years in prison and has always said he was innocent.
A call from a different state asks for her help in locating a young woman who they can’t locate. It seems her grandmother left her a sizeable amount of money.
And then there’s the suspected suicide of a man who should be behind bars. There have been several complaints from the families of young girls and no one .. I mean no one .. wants him loose. When he is found hanging, there are plenty of suspects.
A family with secrets, a woman and her husband who are kidnapped, a man who can’t stay away from young children …. kept me riveted to the story. The characters are all credible … and memorable. There are lots of twists and turns to keep the reader entertained.
I really enjoyed seeing more of the personal side of Jessie and Colin, and especially of Ben.
Even though 4th (and maybe final) in this series, it is easily read as a stand alone, but I highly recommend starting from the very beginning. Excellent series!
Many thanks to the author / Thomas & Mercer Publishing / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Buried Deep by T.R. Ragan that I read and reviewed.
If this was the the last book in the Jessie Cole series I can honestly say that I am very sad to see these characters go. They have grown on me with each book and they all feel like family and I am going to miss them a ton.
Now for this book as I said it was a great way to end the series if in fact it is the end. Jessie had a great case to solve that touched her and made her face some of her demons so it was fun seeing her character come full circle.
Zee got to go out on her own and have a real case and it was fun watching her in action. I love her character because she has gone through so much throughout the series and in my opinion she is the one that has grown the most and the one that is the most fun to read about.
Then there is Ben. He finally gets his answers but I am really mixed about how that comes to an end. No spoilers here but let’s just say I loved and disliked him and how his story may have ended I am not sure how I feel.
This was an excellent book that I could not put down. Truthfully, it may be the best of the series.
Buried Deep gets five out of five stars.
I love Jessie and the crew and I’m sorry to have reached the end!!!! I was hoping to find out that Ben wasn’t a bad guy in the past, but given what I know it doesn’t look good for Ben.
I love Zee and her unconventional ways and many voices and I’m hoping she makes an appearance somewhere, somehow, but its probably not meant to be.
I found parts of the book to be redundant, but that’s because I read the series in order, not as standalones.
I will def be reading more books by T.R. Ragan
#Jessie #Zee #Ben #Olivia #Colin #SorryToSeeItEnd
Jessie is hired to find a mother disappeared 30 years ago. Jessie is also hired to find a woman that disappeared over 15 years ago. Jessie sends Zee out on her first solo case, the missing mother, while she focuses on the other missing woman. Meanwhile, a death in town appears suspicious and gets Colin looking a little closer at Ben.
None of these stories intersect, which is nice since so many books have interwoven storylines these days. Ben & Jessie have no interaction in this book, which is strange since they were investigating/or their paths crossed in the first 3 books. There is just enough work / life balance (Jessie, Colin and Olivia) to make this story tangible.
All kinds of s…stuff, I mean, happening in this book
I’ve been reading this author for years, first under the name of Theresa Ragan and romances, and since then some “killer” thrillers under the T.R. Ragan name. She’s become one of my favorite thriller authors and I’ve read most of her books.
This is the 4th book in the Jessie Cole series about a private investigator out of Sacramento, California.
There’s more than one storyline in this book. Her, her assistant and her niece are looking into two missing persons cases and her Detective boyfriend is trying to find out who murdered a man that a lot of people wanted dead.
Her friend newspaper reporter Ben is there throughout the story, still trying to piece together his life before being in an auto accident ten years ago, leaving him with scars and no memory of his past life.
To do this book justice, you really should read the prior three books in the series. They are all great. And I hope the series continues on. There’s still more that can happen.
I received this book from Amazon Publishing through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
Well book lovers we finally reached the end of the Jessie Cole Series by TR Ragan. I didn’t want this series to end. This is one of my favorite Thriller/ Suspense series and Ragan has become my favorite Thriller writer.
Buried Deep has you on edge the whole time. It’s full of twists and turns, but more importantly ANSWERS. We finally get to know the truth about Ben Morrison’s missing events from his past.
Jessie Cole and Zee are once more trying to find a missing women, while Colin is investigating a murder. I absolutely love the way Ragan puts you inside the murderer head without letting you know who he or she actually is. It’s make the story more intense and intriguing.
Ragan has an impeccable writing style that gets you suck into each and every story. I still can believe this is the last installment on the Jessie Cole Series. I wanted more. Not because was any way inconclusive it was by how extraordinary well developed it absolutely was.
Thriller lovers, this is the series for you.
Buried Deep is the fourth in this series and while it could be read solo a lot of back story will be lost in the interaction with crime reporter Ben Morrison and Jessie Cole. Lacey Geiger and her jerk of a husband Jason are kidnapped and buried alive. Luck just happens to intervene when Jessie Cole is hired to find the girl Lacey used to be. Discovering a backbone made of steel, Lacey will win your heart for her will of survival and her self awakening when put in an impossible situation and forced to face the truth about the man she married. Jessie hands a missing mother case over to her unusual assistant Zee. The client’s mother is missing and her innocent father went to jail for it. Zee walks a fine line with the law as she investigates. Meanwhile Ben’s amnesia still has him in its grip. When the girls’ soccer coach accused of molestation winds up dead, Ben might just find out what he is made of. Jessie and Colin’s love affair takes a back seat to the cases in this story but is still part of the underlying story. Each case by itself is interesting, all three cases taken together create a page turning and engrossing read that cannot be set down. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from Netgalley.
Buried Deep was a great book, entertaining and intriguing, frightening at times. The author has really developed the main characters over the course of this series and I’m not ready for it to end.
OMG – This was gut wrenching all the way through. I thoroughly enjoy this series and the ending leaves me with mixed emotions, thoughts, and feelings. Well down T.R. Ragan, well done. There are several different story lines going on and each one could be a stand a lone and reel in you. Jessie our private eye is on the search for a missing person. Cole is investigating a suicide, or is it? Zee has her very first case. That is a calm as it gets! Buried Deep is not just in the literal sense, but also memories, emotions, it covers a lot of territory with all the story lines. If your claustrophobic, shore up before reading. Thank you Thomas and Mercer, Thank you Net Galley, thank you T.R. Ragan you rocked my world, made me think, made me question and made me feel.
This is the fourth book in the Jessie Cole series and can definitely be read as a stand-alone. Veteran fans of this series may feel the narrative to be anticlimactic. While Ragan does an exquisite job of leading readers effortlessly through a shadowy plot that is told from multiple points of view, a good portion of story is spent giving in-depth contextual references to already established characters. This did cause a few stalls in the plot throughout but overall, the inherent conflict was a constant underpinning that pushed the story along. Ragan came up with multiple, unexpected subplots to follow throughout the narrative that all came together nicely by the end. All in all, there was a lot of reading for the little that happened to progress the series and its characters but as a stand-alone it hit the mark. 4 stars.
Thank you to #NetGalley for this ARC copy of #BurriedDeep
I love how this author effortlessly has no less than 6 POV/story lines going through out the book and you are never at anytime lost or wondering whose head your in.
PI Jessie Cole ends up with two new cases on her already full plate. The first is a woman in her 30’s who wants Jessie to find her mother who disappeared when she was a young child. The second case is an attorney asking her to locate a woman who went missing when she was a teenager as she is now the beneficiary of a large amount of money.
Jessie ends up turning the missing mother case over to her schizophrenic assistant Zee which is always a treat as along with the “friends” in her head its always full of humor with the situations she gets herself in.
Jessie’s case of finding the missing beneficiary is a complex labyrinth. So many threads in this one.. Don’t want to give to much away but it was twisted tale..
Meanwhile the pedophile coach story that was started in previous books takes a big turn. Both Colin, in a police capacity, and Ben Morrison, as a person of interest, are prominent here.
Everyone of those storylines comes to shocking conclusions. None more so than Ben’s but I am used to the author torturing us with his story. Is the next book written yet??