“This is the thinking reader’s romantic suspense, and it’s dynamite.” – USA TODAY
The man of her fantasies is finally hers. Sort of…Two things haunt forensic anthropologist Hazel MacLeod: the bones of victims of genocide she examines for her work, and former SEAL Sean Logan’s rejection. But within days of moving to her cousin’s estate to take a much needed break, she finds herself faced with … estate to take a much needed break, she finds herself faced with both.
First, she’s called in to examine a mass grave in Virginia, then, her politician cousin receives a threatening letter and insists Hazel needs around the clock protection–from none other than Sean Logan. To make matters worse, because the threat to her is classified, Hazel and Sean must pretend to be lovers to hide that he’s her bodyguard.
Sean has spent years trying to avoid his boss’s sexy cousin, but now he’s guarding her twenty-four seven and even bringing her as his date to a romantic destination wedding. As the heat between them intensifies, Sean can’t lose sight of the danger that brought them together. But when bullets start flying, new questions arise. Are the senator’s political rivals really behind the threat, or is someone trying to silence Hazel from speaking for the dead?
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Loved this book!!! Great addition to Rachel Grant’s Evidence Series. The two main characters are realistic, sympathetic and the chemistry between them burns!! Plus we catch up with lots of previous characters and reader favorites! If you’re looking for intelligent Romantic Suspense, look no further!
Silent Evidence is the long awaited new installment in the Romantic Suspense Evidence series by Rachel Grant. Once again she has delivered another rollercoaster mystery ride packed with her distinctive signature, scientific insight, and awareness of today’s controversial topics such as the abuse of technology and science, the abuse of political and law enforcement power, and the resulting impact of that abuse on individuals unable to defend themselves while simultaneously leaving the reader chasing after clues the entire read.
Hazel MacLeod is a forensic anthropologist, Ivy MacLeod little sister (Poison Evidence) and Alec Ravissant (Incriminating Evidence) cousin, who after an incident in Ukraine has been left battling panic attacks while fighting to give a voice to the silent victims of genocides all around the world and her own homeland, and also battling her conflicting feelings towards her unreciprocated love for Sean Logan.
Sean Logan is a former Navy SEAL who is self-assured in his area of expertise, level headed, and always ready to protect and defend those who cannot do it for themselves. He battles with the vulnerability of feeling powerless and helpless against fighting the cancer that is killing another one of his loved ones as well as the panic attacks that are deteriorating the woman he has been in love with for years. Out of fear he has denied both of them the opportunity of being together.
I want to mention that one of my favorite things I experienced while reading this book was encountering all the characters from the previous books, Erica, Lee, J.T, Mara, Curt, Alec, Isabel, Undine,Luke, Mathew, Ivy, Trina and Keith going to Cressida and Ian’s wedding and competing in an scavenger hunt that led them to counter protesting a white supremacy rally. Racism is an evil monster that is still alive in the land of the free.
Without a doubt Silent Evidence is another favorited book in the Evidence series.
I am looking forward to someday reading a book about JT and another about Chase.
WOW…Ms Grant knocks this murder mystery romance out of the park with all of the things going on, keeping me on the edge of my seat, tip of my toes and hair standing on end. Sexy Hazel and Sean had me laughing, mad, crying but most of all rooting for them to find themselves with a love of a lifetime.
I love romantic suspense that works! And Rachel Grant always works. Nothing blows up because of bubble gum, and the bad guys always have a realistic motive. There’s enough in the world that we can tell wonderful stories and get it right. Also, the women in this series are serious kickass scientists. Love it.
Love Rachel Grant!
Rachel Grant is an auto-buy.
This is another fantastic book in the series. It’s full of suspense and has some great love. It also let’s us revisit some of our old friends but was written so you can read it even if you haven’t read past books.
Excellent!
Rachel Grant: A Master of her Craft
Rachel Grant is a master of her craft. She can write. She can create the most complicated suspenseful storyline that first curves left then right; she includes the most romantic, sensuous love stories; and then wraps all the tangents up in the smartest endings possible. She did so in the Flashpoint Series for me and now she is doing it in the Evidence Series.
The story of Sean Logan and Hazel MacLeod began in an earlier Evidence book (one that I had not read but you know I am going to read now.) It concludes in Silent Evidence. Hazel, much to her disgust and embarrassment offered her naked self to Sean who tried to let her down easy in the previous book. When they meet in Silent, he is assigned to protect her as she is assisting her cousin’s wife, with bones excavated in a reservoir when a threat was received. Mix in white supremacists, a wedding, hate rallies, bones, skulls, explosions, sex toys, Russian spies, dirty Senators, missing immigrants and you have one spectacular book. The kind I have come to expect from the master, Rachel Grant.
Take it from me. It’s more than five stars!
This author knows how to deliver thrills with suspense intertwined with romance. In saying that you know this one was quickly opened with Hazel and Sean to take you on this ride. She is one interesting person who quickly captures your attention with what she does. She will also soon find herself in danger with that getting the suspense meter ticking. It will also open the door for a second chance with Sean coming into things. In no time at all you will become wrapped up into this one escaping into the drama but also being pulled into wanting to know the answers too. When at times the hair can stand on end you keep on. Well rounded also to keep you from beginning to end.
As a prolific reader (200+ books/year), I’m always excited when I get totally drawn into a book from the beginning and don’t want to put it down until I’ve reached the end.
While I’ve read a couple of the Flashpoint books, this is the first book of the Evidence series that I’ve read. There is so much in this book – family (both blood and work), steamy romance, humor, mental health, racism, politics, and the mystery of the bones in the lake. Hazel is a forensic anthropologist who has an undeniable attraction to Sean and who is dealing with panic attacks. Sean is a former SEAL who is enlisted to pretend he is Hazel’s boyfriend even though his true mission is to be her bodyguard.
Will Hazel and Sean be able to give a relationship a chance or are they doomed to fighting their attraction? Who is the target in the threatening letters sent to her cousin Rav – is it Hazel or Isabel (Rav’s wife)? Why did the Sheriff try blocking the investigation of the bones? Loved how this story unfolded and that there was mystery until the end. I look forward to reading the previous books in this series.
Another smash hit by this author and now we get Sean, the delicatable Raptor who has made appearances in other books previous to this one. He has had a thing for Hazel, his boss’s cousin for years and even turned her down months before but now she needs his protection when Alec starts receiving threats that could be aimed at his wife or Hazel, and Alec isn’t taking any chances. Hazel is living with Alec and Isabel after returning from her latest find and is recuperating after finding her last dig has her suffering from panic attacks and questioning whether she can do her job anymore. When Isabel finds a mass grave she calls on Hazel to help her sort through it all and find out whether it’s a burial ground or a mass grave to hide murder. During her investigation Sean sticks by her side and they even go away for a his friend’s wedding, pretending to be a couple, something she has wanted for years but Sean is still a bit hesitant. So when the lines get blurred and Sean says some things that has Hazel scrambling…can he make up for it and will it be in time before the mystery person strikes again.
Oh my my my my what a read that I couldn’t put down. The sparks and fireworks between these two fly off the pages and the forest scene had me holding my breath. I LOVED Hazel and her fiery attitude, going after what she wants but also being able to stand up for herself and walking away when she had been wronged. I liked the slow burn between these two until it explodes and even though I wanted to shake Sean a few times, he comes out a better man in the end. I also loved how there was not much drama between them, how quickly Sean realizes that Hazel is the one.
Not only that but the descriptions of the scenes, had me feeling like I was right there and I LOVED reading about all the previous couples, making an appearance in this book and catching up with all of them. The story flowed beautifully and once again the descriptions were spot on, the characters were amazing, plenty of lust/love and steamy scenes, suspense, action, mystery and secrets that finally come out in the open, tying everyone and everything together. KUDOS to the author for another suspenseful romantic read that had me glued to the pages and wanting more more more !!!
*I voluntarily read an advanced copy and expressed my honest opinion*
In the midst of bones, politics and intrigue, lies a past they can no longer ignore…
I have read some amazing books throughout 2018. I end the year with an incredible book called SILENT EVIDENCE – Evidence series – Bk 8 by Rachel Grant.
While familiar with the Flashpoint series, SILENT EVIDENCE was my first book read of the Evidence series. WOW!! Incredible!! It’s a book that will resonate with you, one that leaves you feeling so much yet also reeling, astonished and hopefully will challenge perspectives of social culture, politics and mental health awareness and love. This story is a journey of suspense and romance but woven with additional layers on all levels. It’s a book that draws you into the emotional fabric of the story from its beginning to its conclusion…what drives us, how we respond, how we deal and how we cope when life isn’t always going our way or when things become too much. What has shaped our lives, what taunts our emotional, mental and physical wellbeing.
Reading SILENT EVIDENCE, prompted me to purchase the entire series, to go and start from the beginning, to see exactly the chain of events, the journey that each has faced, that has lead to SILENT EVIDENCE. It’s that GOOD.
Note: The job that Hazel does as a forensic anthropologist, is captivating yet leaves you feeling heartbroken at the devastation, destruction and innocence lost at the hands of power and greed.
Rachel Grant is one of those authors that takes your reading journey to the next level. She has gifted you an emotionally charged, impeccable story. Beautiful intensity of connection, compassion, strength, and vulnerability. There is such detailed attention to the story line, it’s character depth, dialogue and continuity with previous characters and their pasts and presents. You delve into the suspense and murkiness that is real life. One filled with political intrigue, innocence destroyed, racism and dealing with mental health – you are left wondering if there is enough goodness in this world to fight the insidious evilness and systematic greed and corruption that pervades this world.
Yet though all the muck, the danger and awfulness faced, there are the threads of hope, love, trust and compassion and humour – that always in the right hands, are the very definition of love, you are safe and cared for. It’s a past, intensely personal, that Hazel and Sean can no longer ignore.
Rachel delivers you an engaging, page-turning, captivating story. A story that crosses the structures of excessive greed, political coverups and depraved evilness to the beautiful heart those that fight to bring about change and justice with voice and hands . It is filled with intrigue, twists and turns. A compelling romantic suspense. Devastating and well thought out in its accuracy and description of content.
Such a touching and heartfelt story. While there are aspects that will provide emotional triggers for some, they are handled with extreme care and compassion by the author. So worth every moment of your time to sink inside the words and thoughts, as you get swept up into this storm of drama, intrigue and vulnerability. SILENT EVIDENCE is Sean and Hazel’s journey to share… you will fall in love with them both.
Silent Evidence by Rachel Grant was a powerhouse of action and suspense as well as a steamy romance.
Ms. Grant is an author that always brings in elements of today’s world whether it be international politics, corruption or illegal and immoral biohazard testing. This time the story is set in the United States and centers around the sad but truthful issues of racism, illegal testing of technological weapons using humans as test subjects and the positive attributes of requesting help for mental health issues.
Hazel MacLeod is a forensic anthropologist who is taking a much needed vacation after helping in Croatia. She is smart and funny and she knows she needs help at this point in her life because her job has taken a huge toll on her mentally and emotionally. Sean works for Alec Ravissant at Raptor and has been assigned to be Hazel’s pretend boyfriend when Alec receives an email threat regarding his family. I liked Sean because he is down to earth, great at his job and has a huge heart. Hazel and Sean have a past which makes sparks fly as they (especially Sean) resist the attraction between them. Did I say sparks? It’s flames and when they finally give in to the attraction, it’s an inferno.
The plot is fast paced filled with ex-spies, a sleeper agent, unidentified bones, a car chase, an explosion and a twist that I never saw coming. I could not put the book down and I can hardly wait for the next one.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book. All of the above opinions are my own.
Silent Evidence
Seriously, could not put in down!
It has everything, intelligent professional women, hot/sexy alpha military males. It touches on real issues. And the suspense is over the top! Oh, and panty melting sex too!! A MUST READ
4.5 stars
I loved Sean and Hazel! Hazel is a forensic anthropologist with a quirky, yet smart personality, but I was drawn to her emotional vulnerability. I loved how she wasn’t afraid to admit she needed help. As for Sean, he was a protective and calm rock of support…unless it involved Hazel. He twisted himself into knots trying to deny what was between them! As I was reading, Katy Perry’s Hot and Cold chorus just kept buzzing through my brain as Sean and Hazel danced around each other! The slow-burning tension eventually delivered delightfully steamy satisfaction and oh my, what a journey! I also loved the sweet moments of humor that came out at the most unexpected times. Hazel may have kept Sean on his toes, but he wasn’t complaining!
Potential homicide case, threats, sleeper agents, political issues…I mean, this wouldn’t be a Rachel Grant book if there wasn’t a thread of political suspense to go along with the hot romance! This time there was a twist. Instead of an international setting, Silent Evidence was set on domestic soil and highlighted problems in our own backyard. She touched on topics such as mental health, profiling, and racism, with the last obviously being a delicate topic, but I felt Grant did a good job balancing the good-and the bad-using Sean and Hazel’s interracial relationship in the best way possible. All in all, book 8 in the Evidence series delivered Grant’s trademark romantic suspense with humor, a detailed eye for current events, and a rockin’ romance!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Over the past few years, I’ve read the prior Evidence series books and of course they are excellent. But it was THIS BOOK that has tied the series together for me. So many connections in prior books that I realized the implications. Also, this story is smart, steamy, and suspenseful. Truly, it has everything. Excellent writing and I look forward to more stories in this world!
This book is 8 in a series. It was very good. I’m bummed I didn’t read the series in order. Gonna do that now.
I have read most of Rachel Grant books, not one of her better books
Too much sex, tone it down Rachel
I have very much enjoyed Rachel Grant’s books