I'm going back to the past to one of my first reviews I posted on Goodreads in June 2015. I only discovered Goodreads in November 2014 (and did not know what I was missing). So, here is one of my first reviews of a book I would love to reread:
My rating: 💛💛💛💛💛
What a great ending to the series.
A teenage girl is found dead. Later it comes to light that the crime scene matches the exact scene of a murder story of a famous writer. Then another girl turns up dead and another girl is missing. The dead girl is again found at a crime scene, exactly mirroring the murder scene of the writer's latest book. And Chief Cade is framed.
This book was full of action packed suspense. I love guessing who the culprit is and love it even more when I don't know until the end. And this book kept me wondering right up till the end. I had two suspects, but kept going, okay he did it, no he did it, up until about 87% in, when I thought I knew. But then the revealing scene was also written in such a way that you wondered for a split second, okay maybe I was wrong, then you see you were right and you are thinking "I knew it!, and then, but why?
I loved catching up with Blair and Cade and Morgan and Jonathan and a bit sad that I have to say goodbye.
You can read this book as a standalone, but I would recommend starting with book 1. A lot happened to the characters during the series and for me reading it from Book 1 made me feel apart of their lives.
Recommended for Christian fiction suspense series lovers!
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About the book:
Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric writer’s books–Cade is drawn into a web of trickery and deceit. Evidence turns up in Cade’s own truck, and suddenly he becomes the number-one suspect. Cade tries to clear his name, but when eighteen-year-old Sadie Caruso disappears, tensions mount to a fever pitch. Can Cade find the real killer before Sadie winds up dead? Is the novelist a demented killer, or a hapless victim? And what does Sadie’s own mother have to do with the crimes? Secrets are uncovered, while lessons are learned about the sins of the father being visited upon his children. Will the consequences of Sheila’s life be fatal, or is there redemption and mercy for her and her children? “Chief Matthew Cade rarely considered another line of work, but news of the dead teenage girl made him long for a job as an accountant or electrician—some benign vocation that didn’t require him to look into the eyes of grieving parents.”
About the author:
Terri Blackstock is a New York Times best-seller, with over seven million books sold worldwide.. She has
had over thirty years of success as a novelist.
Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in a U.S. Air Force family. She lived in nine states and attended the first four years of school in The Netherlands. Because she was a perpetual “new kid,” her imagination became her closest friend. That, she believes, was the biggest factor in her becoming a novelist. She sold her first novel at the age of twenty-five, and has had a successful career ever since.
In 1994 Terri was writing romance novels under two pseudonyms for publishers such as HarperCollins, Harlequin, Dell and Silhouette, when a spiritual awakening prompted her to switch gears. At the time, she was reading more suspense than romance, and felt drawn to write thrillers about ordinary people in grave danger. Her newly awakened faith wove its way into the tapestry of her suspense novels, offering hope instead of despair. Her goal is to entertain with page-turning plots, while challenging her readers to think and grow. She hopes to remind them that they’re valued by God and that their trials have a purpose.
had over thirty years of success as a novelist.
Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in a U.S. Air Force family. She lived in nine states and attended the first four years of school in The Netherlands. Because she was a perpetual “new kid,” her imagination became her closest friend. That, she believes, was the biggest factor in her becoming a novelist. She sold her first novel at the age of twenty-five, and has had a successful career ever since.
In 1994 Terri was writing romance novels under two pseudonyms for publishers such as HarperCollins, Harlequin, Dell and Silhouette, when a spiritual awakening prompted her to switch gears. At the time, she was reading more suspense than romance, and felt drawn to write thrillers about ordinary people in grave danger. Her newly awakened faith wove its way into the tapestry of her suspense novels, offering hope instead of despair. Her goal is to entertain with page-turning plots, while challenging her readers to think and grow. She hopes to remind them that they’re valued by God and that their trials have a purpose.
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