“The man she loved is gone forever. The child she lives for could be next.”Each day is a struggle for Amanda Gleason’s newborn son as he battles a rare immune deficiency. Justin’s best chance for a cure lies with his father, who was brutally murdered before Amanda even realized she carried his child.
Or was he?
One emailed photo changes everything, planting a seed of doubt that Amanda latches on to for dear life: a recent photo of a man who looks exactly like Paul. Could Justin’s father be alive? The mother in her is desperate to find out. But tracking down a ghost when every second counts is not for amateurs.
“Forensic Instincts is the one team up for the challenge.”
A behaviorist. A former navy SEAL. A techno-wizard. An intuitive. A retired FBI agent. A human-scent-evidence dog. Together they achieve the impossible, pushing ethical and legal boundaries whenever the ends justify the means.
The manhunt is on for the elusive father. Yet the further FI digs into his past, the more questions are raised about whether the man Amanda fell in love with ever really existed at all.
Dark secrets. Carefully crafted lies. From the congressional halls of Washington, D.C., to exclusive Hamptons manors, there are ruthless people who would stop at nothing to make Forensic Instincts forget about the man Amanda desperately needs to find.
Little do “they” realize that once Forensic Instincts takes the case, nothing will stop them from uncovering the shocking truth that transcends “The Line Between Here and Gone.”
Amanda Gleason is at her wits end. Her 3 week old son has been diagnosed with an immune deficiency and he can maybe survive if they find a donor in time. When a friend sends her a picture of a man that looks exactly like her supposedly deceased boyfriend she’s shocked. She’s also determined to find out if that’s him or not as his blood could possibly save her son Justin’s life.
Amanda heads to Forensic Instincts, a private investigations unit like no other. Marc who is part of the team listens to her plea for help and decides to take the case. The rest of the team isn’t so happy with Marc as they usually decide their cases as a group but once they hear the circumstances of the case they’re all in and ready to get down to business.
Paul Everett was a real estate developer who Amanda had dated for 5 months. Paul was in the middle of building a huge hotel that would feed into an Indian casino but there was definitely something fishy going on. His efforts to complete the project were thwarted by none other than Amanda’s uncle, Lyle Fenton. Paul had disappeared and been claimed a no-body homicide 8 months earlier. After receiving the picture on her cell phone, however, Amanda believes that Paul is alive and she wants his blood to save Justin’s life.
Marc, Casey, Ryan, Claire and the bloodhound, Hero, set to work on investigating Paul’s life, what he was working on, who he was working with and what possible motive anyone would have to kill the man. Even though they are kind of looking at his death they honestly believe that Paul is alive – they just need to find him.
In their investigations they find out some incredible information about Amanda’s uncle, Lyle Fenton, and they believe that he may know more about where Paul is or how he disappeared. Unfortunately they keep getting pushed every which way with people trying to hold back information and they’re getting frustrated. They WILL find Paul, they just hope it’s in time to save little Justin’s life.
This was my first book by Andrea Kane but the second book in the Forensic Instincts series. Not having read book one didn’t keep me in the dark about this team of investigators at all. The story was informative about the characters and there were some on-going issues with them but nothing that I was lost about or felt like I needed to go back and read book one first.
The mystery/investigation in this book was pretty intricate. There were so very many ins and outs with the whole story that I have to admit I was getting a bit tired of by about ¾ of the way through the book. Not that it wasn’t good but I was obviously anxious to get the story moving and yet another obstacle would fall into the teams way. I enjoyed the story within the story – finding Paul as well as finding out about corruption and crime with Fenton and the mob but it was a bit too dry in places and I found myself trying not to skim.
Overall it was an interesting novel filled with a mystery that had many clues with lots of places to find them. When the case was brought to a close I had figured out who Paul was but couldn’t figure out how it all tied together so that when it was all wrapped up I was slightly surprised but happy with the ending.
Rating: 3.25 out of 5
Excerpt
Numbly, Amanda nodded.
She held Justin for one more brief, desperate moment, then kissed his soft cheek and handed him over to the nurse.
How many times had she done that in the past few days?
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