Review: Her Deadly Secrets by Laura Griffin

Her Deadly Secrets (Wolfe Security #2) by Laura Griffin

Publication Date: July 2nd 2019 by Gallery Books

Pages: 368

Source: Publisher

Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo

About the book:

A young private investigator discovers the price of keeping deadly secrets when a ruthless killer sets his sights on her in this pulse-pounding thriller from the USA TODAY and New York Times bestselling author of the Tracers series.

Private investigator Kira Vance spends her days navigating the intricate labyrinth of Houston’s legal world, and she knows all of its shadowy players and dark secrets.

On a seemingly normal day, she’s delivering a report to her top client when suddenly everything goes sideways and the meeting ends in a bloodbath. Twenty-four hours later, the police have no suspects but one thing is clear: a killer has Kira in his sights.

Fiercely independent, Kira doesn’t expect—or want—help from anyone, least of all an unscrupulous lawyer and his elite security team. Instead, she launches her own investigation, hoping to uncover the answers that have eluded the police. But as Kira’s hunt for clues becomes more and more perilous, she realizes that she alone may hold the key to finding a vicious murderer. And she knows she must take help wherever she can find it if she wants to stay alive…

My Thoughts:

Kira, a new-ish private investigator and Jeremy one of the security specialist with Wolfe Security are thrown together when a case Kira and her boss are working turns deadly.  Jeremy is assigned to protect her, but Kira doesn’t want to be hemmed in while she’s trying to find a killer. However, she does see the wisdom of protection when it becomes clear she’s on the killer’s radar.

Kira’s is trying to piece together clues from her boss’s investigations to track down a killer, and while she has Jeremy at her back 24-7 he sort of becomes her reluctant partner in the case. Reluctant not because Jeremy doesn’t want to investigate, but because he doesn’t want Kira in any more danger than she’s in already.  Of course, being in such close proximity the attraction they feel for each other becomes hard to ignore. Jeremy doesn’t want his feelings for Kira to distract him from his job to make sure she’s safe, so it’s a little dance of giving in and backing off; that is when they’re not smack in the middle of danger.

I know I’m in for an exciting, fast-paced read when I pick up one of Laura Griffin’s mysteries.  While the beginning of Her Deadly Secret starts off with a bang, there was a bit of a lull until the story really took off for me, but when it did my attention was 100% consumed.  Part crime procedural and part romantic suspense. Thrills interspersed with chemistry a-brewing, and stolen moments of passion. Kira and Jeremy’s story was an exciting read!

4 Suns