Now a USA TODAY bestseller!Casey knows the truth. But it won’t set her free.Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they’ve failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has … question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up.
Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run?
Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices: the girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet.
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Great first book in this series. If you run, don’t run from this series!
After her DNA is found at a murder scene if Casey runs will she ever be able to stop? Can she clear her name?
Dylan is a weary vet who’s hired to hunt her down. Will he find her? If he does, will he find the truth? She could be innocent or guilty but how will he know?
As she runs and he follows the suspense builds. In each installment Casey takes the time to help others. Would a killer do that?
This is a great suspense series by one of my favorite authors.
This one is hard to put down once you start reading.
Great book
Absolutely incredible! I read this book in 12 hours! I couldn’t put it down. Page after page, I just had to know what would happen. Thankfully I have the next two waiting for me, so I don’t have to wait for them!
Another excellent story by one of my favorite authors.
Loved it and the rest if the series
Amazing series!! I love it!!
Kept me in suspense through the whole book. also the 2 sequels are as good!!
Great story! I can’t wait for the next one in the series .
I liked this book, but had mixed feelings about it. I didn’t like it as well as the series that starts with “Last Light”. Part of the problem is the reader. It would have worked better if two readers, one male and one female, had been used since the woman who reads it doesn’t do male voices well at all. Since the story is told by two people, one male and one female, this is a bit of a problem. It doesn’t ruin the audiobook, but it sure doesn’t enhance it! Also, her involvement in another case seems just a bit far-fetched – laudable, but far-fetched. That said, I am anxious to read or listen to the next book since it ended on a cliffhanger.
The first of an exciting, page-turner series. Blackstock is a great story-teller.
Great trilogy!
Please read all three of these books. If I Run, If I’m Found and If I Live.
Loved them.
Very well written.
Great murder mystery with a young woman on the run from the bad cops. Great characters.
Casey is a survivor but has some PTSD, so does the vet chasing her. She barely escapes being captured. The story continues in next book.
Casey is on the run from the police for a murder she didn’t commit, and the real killers want her dead. This book is filled with scenes that will make you hold your breath, wondering how int he world Casey will get out of this one. Good thing she has an ally. Warning: the story continues in books two and three, so be prepared to read on.
This has a good plot that kept me reading. I have actually read the next two in the series as well.
Really enjoyed it. It made me want to buy the next two books in the series and they did not disappoint.
I received this book for an honest review from Fiction Guild. When I first start reading it I didn’t realize how I was going to get so attached to the main character in this story. To know from the age of 12 that your father was killed and what is really bad is that it was done by his fellow police officers because they were dirty. Then when your friend starts looking into it and gets to close and get killed they try to blame it on you and you go on the run so they don’t kill you also. The twist and turns in this book makes it for a wonderful read and also a hard book to put down because you want to know what happens next. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book.
So this description got me interested and pulled me into the story, I had got approved of this I think just after Christmas and it’s taken me now to just get to reading it, I got in a bit of Lady Midnight book slumber. Plus uni work has been killing me so onto what I thought about this book.
The book was told in dual point of view, following Casey who is on the run from the police so she doesn’t get captured and put in prison or murdered when her best friend Brent dies. The other person we follow is Dylan who has been hired by Brent’s family to find Casey and bring her home so justice can be served.
Casey was an interesting character, as soon as this book starts we see Casey preparing to run away after finding her best friend dead. Knowing that she would be blamed for his murder we see Casey travel across the country to get away from it and as does this she meet a few interesting characters including a Miss Lucy who she ends up residing with for a few days, once she gets her new life sorted. Casey although she is on the run she does small things to still help at one point she helps someone who has fallen, another time she stands up to someone who was watching porn in the library in front of a child. So although she is on the run she does small things like that, which says a lot about her personality and her character.
Dylan has recently returned home from serving in the army and has a slight hint of PTSD, he is hired by Brent’s family to bring Casey home, and the police department also agrees for him to be hired and give him limited access to the police files. From the get go Dylan doesn’t always believe that Casey is the killer, the more he hears about her the more he begins to question. He investigates properly and asks Casey and Brent’s friends, and he tries to give her a reason for why she could have maybe flipped and killed her best friend. Also the fact that she found her father’s body when he was murdered, which was made to look like a suicide, maybe if that has disturbed her to make her do this. Dylan is a far interesting character wanting to believe the best and not follow the sheep in what other things, Dylan’s view changes once he speaks to someone who ends up dead before she can tell him anything real. He then discovers the cops might be bent. He begins to side with Casey and believe that she is also innocent.
The story had a multi-narrative structure, with not only the main story we had a little side story of Miss Lucy’s granddaughter who has been missing for two years. Casey can’t help but get herself involved and does eventually find her in a neighbours basement with a baby. They don’t believe her and she gets arrested, Casey, of course, can’t help herself and goes back and she finds them and rescues them, as the neighbour is about to attack her. Dylan comes to the rescue and saves her, he also lets Casey go. Believing that she is in fact innocent.
This is where my bad bit comes in, I hated how the book ended, I mean a part of me expected it to be more than 1 book series, but I kind of wish they would have properly wrapped up Laura’s story, the missing teenager. Although she’s found we don’t really get told what happens. So that kind of annoyed me, I did expect the main storyline to carry on, so I had to knock off a star, so unless Terri Blackstock will come back to this in the next book which seems pointless unless it is somehow intertwined with the story.
Overall it had a good plot, good characters, it kept me wanting to read the next page, and wanting to know what happens, if and when the next book comes out (according to Goodreads this is only book 1) I will carry on with it.
If I Run begins a trilogy of books about Casey Cox, a young woman whose life has already had terrible tragedy when she is framed for her best friend’s murder. She goes on the run to avoid capture. Dylan, an Afghanistan vet with PTSD is hired to help police capture her, but along the way he begins to suspect the real murderer and Casey’s innocence.