My thoughts
Each book in this series holds you your breath and your heart. This one is about mothers. Mothers with newborn babies.
A deranged serial killer is taking these mothers and doing the most heinous things to them before breaking their necks.
Back in 2014 Nikki Hunt was looking for a young mother who had gone missing. The police would not take is very series because this woman was a prostitute. But her mother knew she would not have just left. She would not have left her baby. Nikki wanted to find her. Bring her home to her mother and baby. But when Nikki got to the cabin she found a gruesome murder. Also another dead man.
When Nikki comes face to face with this killer she is desperate. She's pregnant and wants to keep her baby safe. Fortunately this killer does not like pregnant women he says and he lets her live. The only problem I found with this book was them saying that Nikki "let him go." She actually was spared by him. He had complete control at that time. But he did promise to come for her later.
In 2024 a serial killer is on the loose again. He's taking women who are new mothers. He is doing horrible things again. Putting them through so much pain before finally killing them. Could it be the same man? That man was suppose of have been found dead back in 2014. But was it really him. Or was he back...
This book takes you to a dark place. A place where women are treated so badly. Put through so much pain. Kept alive for weeks only to be murdered and left in places where they can be found. Left so there is no way Nikki Hunt will miss them. It's a calling card of sorts. His signature has not changed at all. If anything he has gotten even more cruel.
Thank you #NetGalley, #StacyGreen, #bookouture, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.
Five big stars.
Book Description:
Children run through the streets in their Halloween costumes, giggling happily, not noticing the blood on the house is real. A baby girl is tucked up asleep in her room. Her mother’s body lies motionless in the front yard, pink petals on the ground beside her…
Arriving in the quiet community of Mulberry Creek, Special Agent Nikki Hunt is shocked that amongst the chaos of costumes and fake, silver spider webs, a new mother called Kiania Watson has lost her life. A blooming rare flower placed carefully in her cold, bound hands. Nikki’s legs go weak: it’s the mark of a serial killer she’s met before.
Nine years ago, Nikki fell in pursuit of a masked man who’d killed a young girl at a cabin in rural Minnesota. Seeing her cradling the bump of her pregnant belly, he’d spared her life. She was told he’d died in a shoot-out days later. But the pink flower only grows at that cabin: it’s a message to Nikki.
Nikki’s team are quick to suspect Kiania’s abusive husband. But Nikki finds two further, similar murders in other states. Flowers were left in their palms when they died. Nikki’s heart breaks when she realizes all the victims were mothers to newborn babies.
Digging desperately into old case files, Nikki finds blood on a rock she secured nine years ago, which has never been tested. But not before receiving a desperate call that another woman has just been taken. This twisted killer is playing a deadly game, and Nikki must risk her own life if she has any chance of returning this mother to her child alive…
A dark, twisty and heart-racing thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, reading it in one sitting. Fans of Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan and Robert Dugoni will be addicted to the suspense in this tightly-woven page-turner.
Arriving in the quiet community of Mulberry Creek, Special Agent Nikki Hunt is shocked that amongst the chaos of costumes and fake, silver spider webs, a new mother called Kiania Watson has lost her life. A blooming rare flower placed carefully in her cold, bound hands. Nikki’s legs go weak: it’s the mark of a serial killer she’s met before.
Nine years ago, Nikki fell in pursuit of a masked man who’d killed a young girl at a cabin in rural Minnesota. Seeing her cradling the bump of her pregnant belly, he’d spared her life. She was told he’d died in a shoot-out days later. But the pink flower only grows at that cabin: it’s a message to Nikki.
Nikki’s team are quick to suspect Kiania’s abusive husband. But Nikki finds two further, similar murders in other states. Flowers were left in their palms when they died. Nikki’s heart breaks when she realizes all the victims were mothers to newborn babies.
Digging desperately into old case files, Nikki finds blood on a rock she secured nine years ago, which has never been tested. But not before receiving a desperate call that another woman has just been taken. This twisted killer is playing a deadly game, and Nikki must risk her own life if she has any chance of returning this mother to her child alive…
A dark, twisty and heart-racing thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, reading it in one sitting. Fans of Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan and Robert Dugoni will be addicted to the suspense in this tightly-woven page-turner.
Author Bio:
Stacy Green is a USA Today best-selling author of more than a dozen mysteries and thrillers. Her books include the award-winning Lucy Kendall series, the Cage Foster series, and the USA Today best-selling Nikki Hunt series. Stacy has bachelor’s degrees in Journalism/Mass Communication and Sociology from Drake University. She’s a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America.
Stacy lives in Iowa with her husband, daughter, and fur babies.
Stacy lives in Iowa with her husband, daughter, and fur babies.
Find her on stacygreenauthor.com or www.facebook.com/stacygreenauthor.
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