When suburban Milwaukee law student Dianna Murphy fails to connect with her roommate, there is no real evidence that she has been snatched. Until Law Professor Janet MacLachlan, a former covert agent, discovers a single clue, one that points to a taking by a slave trafficking cartel. In a race against time, Janet recruits her husband, secret agent Cade Matthews, small-town Police Chief David … Manders and his wife, criminal defense attorney Julianna Constant, and other law students to uncover the truth. Can they prove she has been taken, before Dianna disappears without a trace?
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Snatching Dianna by Seelie Kay
Four Stars
Snatching Dianna is the first book in the Feisty Lawyers series by Seelie Kay. This is the first book I have read by this author, but I’m definitely looking forward to reading the next book in the series. This short story is full of action, suspense, drama and a little romance. I was hooked on this book from the beginning and couldn’t put it down until I finished. As Janet and Cade, along with the entire police department race to find the missing Law School student, Dianna, before it is too late, it is the small clues that will guide them on their journey. This story is engaging and the characters are true to life. The book made me feel like I was right there chasing after the bad guys. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.
What a fantastic quick and easy read! Now, sometimes people equate “quick and easy read” to mean simple, adolescent, and sometimes even childish. That is most certainly not the case here. This book was thrilling, suspenseful, fast paced, and very well developed. The author has an innate ability to weave story and character fluidly, doing so in such an effective manner she apparently doesn’t require as many pages as others to complete her craft. Just a very good book and one I will highly recommend to others.
Snatching Dianna (Feisty Lawyers Book 1) by Seelie Kay
5 Stars
This is my second book by this author and I loved it even more than the first that I read. I love the writing style and the smooth flow of every word. I think one of my favorite things about the whole book was the way she wrote the interaction between these characters, the way it all just seemed natural and maybe some parts not so natural but this author made it all seem real, like pulling a gun on your husband and it being like one of my favorite scenes in the whole book. LOL
Much of the story was about something that is completely real in our world today and that part wasn’t so easy to read about but again it was handled beautifully.
I can not wait for more on this series and more of the interaction with these characters, I could almost picture this as a series on TV and if that happened I’d definitely be watching it.
The only negative I have about this book is that it ended, leaving me wanting so so much more.
Loved It!!
Snatching Dianna (Feisty Lawyers #1)
By Seelie Kay
4 stars
This was a great, fast paced read! I have read work by this author previously so I knew that I would be in for a good read and I wasn’t disappointed. When I first read the blurb I wasn’t sure what I was in for so I was really looking forward to reading it, it left me a little intrigued! It didn’t take me long to become hooked on the story, and there were some quite sensitive topics in it that might not be for everybody but I thought it was a great, thrilling read that I found hard to put down. The author has done a great job of interjecting humour and entertainment into a book with some dark moments. I really liked the main characters and I could tell how important it was for them to find out the truth behind what was happening in the story. I felt really connected and engaged by them.
An intriguing read that I absolutely would recommend.
Snatching Dianna is the first book in Seelie Kay’s Feisty Lawyers’ series! What an opening to the series! When you read about the writer and her background, you tell yourself, oh my, I cannot wait for more! I know the second book is coming out in January and I tell you, it feels way too long away …
Seelie gives us 2 very interesting couples – law professor Janet MacLachlan and secret agent Cade Matthews, and small-town Police Chief David Manders and criminal defence attorney Julianna Constant … these two couples are left to figure out what is going on in the suburban Milwaukee college where blond and blue-eyed girls have disappeared!
The story is short but intense and it hangs so well together that at no point you think that it is too fast and the writer is jumping over things … I wish it would be made into a TV series … maybe once couple more instalments are out … it would make great TV! It gives us everything – danger, suspense, international crime, steamy relationships, banter … I think I will have to go and read the other stories the writer has published as it seems that our main couple headlines quite a few of them!
Great job Ms Kay and please, keep the Feisty Lawyers’ busy so that we can pour another glass of wine and read away!
Snatching Dianna by Seelie Kay is the first book in the Fiesty Lawyers series. This is a fast paced and intriguing tale of a young girl who may have been taken as part of a Slavs trafficking cartel and one law professors race against time to try and save her/m.
This is an entirely new author for me and I found her writing style to be gripping. I wasn’t overly sure from the blurb that I would be able to get into this book however I found myself hooked quickly.
The author easily juggles the dark side of this book with the fun and entertaining side she brings to it.
From what I can gather you are introduced to these characters in a different story however I never felt like I was missing out from having not read it. A great book I thoroughly enjoyed.
Snatching Dianna by Seelie Kay was an interesting and intriguing. I have to say that I was impressed with the story line and the way that the author wrote it. I loved the suspense and thrill that followed the story and fell in love with the characters and their passion for finding out the truth. This was a definite 4 Star for me, and I’m looking forward to reading more by this author.
Snatching Dianna (Feisty Lawyers #1)
By Seelie Kay
Rated 4 stars
This is a action packed short story. It drew my attention at the beginning and held it all the way to the end. The story was riveting. The characters were so fun and comfortable. I enjoyed all the banter between them. It wasn’t stiff dialogue. Very smooth and easy to read. This book does touch on a subject that could be a trigger for some people. Human trafficking is a touchy subject. It was handled nicely here.
This is my first book by this author. I enjoyed it but at times felt I missed out on the characters other escapades. It make me want to look for their other stories.
Snatching Dianna (Feisty Lawyers Book 1) by Seelie Kay is cleverly written and a quick read but a good read. The story has it all with intrigue and danger, suspense and action, humour and romance, drama and mystery. I really loved the beginning of this gripping tale. I love the characters whom are very endearing and very realistic and their chemistry and antics and their easy comradery and banter.
Dianna Murphy is missing. Janet an ex-secret agent, now Law Professor, enlists the help of her husband, a covert operative and the local police chief to track her down. What they find is a trafficking ring that is an around the world operation. Will they be able to reach Dianna before her life is on the line and she is so far beyond help?
I can’t wait for more of this series
The fact that human trafficking is real and that it’s not a fictional problem is so crazy and scary.
Snatching Dianna is just that – a fictional offering that is intriguing, multi layered, and kept me interested from the first page to the last.
It is a short book that is packed with a big punch and I do recommend this story.
4 Stars
Snatching Diana is the first book in the Feisty Lawyers Series by Seelie Kay. This is a short story, which makes it a very quick and easy read. There is intrigue, suspense, humour, action, adventure, danger, drama, some romance, and a bit of spice.
Dianna Murphy is a beautiful, smart and savvy college student, who’s studying law. When she goes missing, her roommate is frantic and approaches law professor Janet MacLachlan for help in tracking her down. Janet is an ex-secret agent, and she in turn enlists the help of her husband Cade Matthews (who is a covert operative) and the local police chief, David Manders. Realizing they have a lot of ground to cover and need more man-power, they also recruit David’s wife, as well as several law students- and the ‘team’ gets to work to try and figure out what happened- before Dianna disappears forever. And so starts a chain of events that takes the investigators (and us) on quite the adventure. Across continents, from the United States to Morocco, this story is quite a gripping tale. An intense investigation leads to an international human trafficking ring… and now it’s not just Dianna’s safety on the line!
I really enjoyed this clever little suspense. I love the characters, having met Janet MacLachlan, Cade Matthews and Anders Mark in “Hanging From a Ledge”- which was one of the short stories in the “Kinky Briefs Cinque” collection. I loved them then, and now after this story, I love them even more. I enjoyed their chemistry, funny banter, quips and antics. It made them quite realistic and very endearing.
I think Janet and Cade’s adventures would make a great Television series.
I can’t wait to see what new adventures and investigations await in the future instalments of this new series!
Thank you, Ms. Kay!
Seelie Kay’s Snatching Dianna is the first book in the Feisty Lawyers series. This was a thrilling and suspenseful read. Seelie Kay doesn’t wait to pull the reader into the story, but instantly starts with the right lead ins to draw attention to not only the characters, but also the environment. As I was reading this story, from the details provided, I could vividly picture the scenes – it was amazingly done. Each of the characters in this story were well described and portrayed, despite the limited pages within this book. The story was fast paced, but not rushed. I felt that this was a great introduction into the Feisty Lawyers series and after the sequence of events that occurred in in Snatching Dianna, I cannot wait to see what the author delivers next.
Snatching Dianna is the first book in the Feisty Lawyers series from Seelie Kay. I have read some of her other erotic stories in her Kinky Briefs series so I was super excited to see what would lie between the covers of this sexy new cover from her. I knew the writing would for sure be hot and captivating at the least and well Seelie Kay delivered all that and so much more.
Janet MacLachlan used to be a covert agent that is being called upon to help look for a missing girl, Dianna. All the clues are pointing in the direction of a slave trafficking cartel. Will they be able to actually prove that she was taken by them or will she just be another girl gone missing without a trace?
The action and adventure in the book totally balance the tad of romance and steam perfectly. I was never bored, always on the edge of my seat. I can’t wait to find out what will come next in the series!
Snatching Dianna (Feisty Lawyers #1) by Seelie Kay was a fast pace, witty, entertaining read that, had me hooked from start to finish.
Not my first read by this author or for these MC’s. They appeared in Kinky Briefs, Cinque; and I’ve been waiting to read more about them. These two are started to become a fav of mine, and I need to go back a read more from this author. Not only that, there’s two other important characters that I need to go read about; the Chief of police and his wife. They’re something else, and I need to know their kinky story.
Fast moving and despite the dark and heart wrenching plot, I had fun reading this book. I will say this because it is a fast quick read there isn’t much overall world building and or heavy details. But, I didn’t mind that because of the race against time plot, the witty interactions, solid connections and having Dianna such a strong, defiant character; you’re not stuck on the what the surrounds looked like. You’re engroes into the story, you’re on the edge of your seat hoping that Janet and Cade can get to her in time, not just her but the others as well.
Overall this book is worth your time and energy. It has a pull to it that keeps you glued to the pages and the suspense is thick and heart pounding. So please take my super high recommendation and my stamp of approval that, you will have this book read in one sitting.
Happy Reading
-E.A. Walsh
This is my first book by this author and I enjoyed how it is a creative, easy flowing story that left me on the edge of my seat at times. This story is about a kidnapping on campus but there could be more going on. What happens when Janet and her husband Agent Cade turn up more then they were expecting during their investigation? I liked both of these two, they are connectable and I enjoyed their chemistry together made the story flow. I highly recommend reading their story.
3.75 out of 5 stars
“Snatching Dianna” by Seelie Kay features Constitutional Law Professor Janet MacLachlan and her husband, Agent Cade Matthews as they investigate the possible kidnapping of a student on campus and discover ties to the sex trafficking ring they have tried to dismantle. Their enemies are like a hydra…the moment they shut down one pipeline, another one pops up. Janet and Cade are in a race against time to save not only Dianna, but others as well.
This is an exciting contemporary adult romantic suspense story that veers a bit into the superspy genre even as it tackles a horrific criminal practice. Those who are concerned with such things are advised that multiple points of view are used and those with triggers should use caution. The story is the first in the ‘Feisty Lawyers’ series and can be read as a stand-alone story, but I got the feeling that there are other books connected to this one, given the interactions between the main characters and the pieces of backstory that are shared. I loved the spy gadgets and battle of wits that the main characters wage but I thought some elements were a little forced, like the BDSM encounters that are described and the other woman Dianna meets and connects with. The tension ratchets up and the danger mounts as clues are gradually revealed, but there are moments of snark and maneuvering that give a bit of respite occasionally. I liked all of the characters and hope that some of the secondary ones get their time in the spotlight.
This is a fun and quick read that will whet one’s appetite for more stories featuring this charismatic pair.
A copy of this title was provided to me for review