An abandoned infant. Three girls stolen in the night. Can one overworked detective find the connection to save them all?London, 1999. Short-staffed during a holiday week, Detective Jack Rutherford can’t afford to spend time on the couch with his beloved wife. With a skeleton staff, he’s forced to handle a deserted infant and a trio of missing girls almost single-handedly. Despite the overload, … single-handedly. Despite the overload, Jack has a sneaking suspicion that the baby and the abductions are somehow connected…
As he fights to reunite the girls with their families, the clues point to a dark secret that sends chills down his spine. With evidence revealing a detestable crime ring, can Jack catch the criminals before the girls go missing forever?
Hey You, Pretty Face is a standalone mystery featuring the relentless Detective Jack Rutherford some years before he met Detective Amanda Lacey.
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Multiple Plots Woven into One Wonderful Story
This is my first Jack Rutherford novel, and I enjoyed every word. The characters are so much better than trite, cliche placeholders easily exchanged with any number of others in this genre. This is a well developed, three-dimensional cast with fully developed personalities. Some are lazy and annoying, some are sweet and pitiable. A few are reprehensible. And the lead is stalwart and true. His relationship with his wife warmed my heart, and his interactions with Billy, Chloe, and Mary warmed my soul.
The author did a remarkable job of tying up all the threads into one tidy bow. While I saw how it was all going to come together very early in the story, it didn’t diminish my pleasure at all. It was the character progression that carried the novel.
Like I said, this is my first jack Rutherford novel. But it won’t be my last.
Totally a great read. Sad yet happy endings are the best. But it is a big ring of stolen children used as sex slaves these days. So sad in deed. I sure am glad things came out for the better for the young girls except the one whom was found dead in the water..so sad..im sure glad this is fiction yet really read and sounded as non- fiction. Great book..recommend to any and all who lobe happy endings.
Exciting, tense, and surprising twists. Kept me up at night!
A life full of tragedies, a baby given to adoption and DC Jack Rutherford tries to keep his humanity on top of all the bad things he sees on a daily basis helping a couple of homeless teenagers. The plot has many twists and turns and the ending is the most unexpected one! As I read the books of this series out of order, I found it most interesting to see how the Jack character is developed through the stories. In this book he is a happily married man, devoted to his wife and also respectful of her qualities and insights. A most enjoyable reading!
Really like this author
very different, interesting and intricate
This is definitely a gritty crime novel and not for the faint of heart. I was drawn into the story and felt my heart break at the tragedy of what some characters were going through, felt angry at the criminals, and rooting for the detective to put the pieces together before anyone else got hurt. While the ending brings relief and a sense of closure, it is not what we would call “happily ever after.”
unexpected
Good read!! Enjoy!!
A sad reality of the times that we live in is well researched and portrayed by this author. I will read her work again.
Page turner
This is a very intense Murder psychological thriller, that will keep the reader on the edge of the seat!!
Enjoy the main police officer character and his wife. The storyline was developed well.
British books usually don’t interest me but I took a chance on this one and glad I did. The stories of the main characters and their families are interesting and well developed and all of the characters are linked in some way and their lives intertwined with an interesting twist at the end.
Interesting plot. Great development of characters.
Enjoyed every second!!!!!
This is a stand-alone for the series’ character DC Jack Rutherford, for which there are quite a few more e-books. That being so, there must be readers who love this character, but I will not be one of them. The ending is happy considering three missing girls were found alive and the plot realistic in the police procedures, the pacing, the lack of clues and the lucky breaks that led to the solving, and the case not tied up in a red bow. However, there are an overabundance of meals eaten by DC Rutherford and his happy marriage is over the top. The plot, to me, comes off as plodding, a word often used to describe police detectives.
Ms. Coles’s inclusion of the homeless elements makes an eye-opening statement of how people view and judge this segment of society and what their realities can actually be.
Excellent book.
Grammar and word choices were annoying
It was very good. Kept u guessing where the girls went @how everything connected.