Book Review - No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane
Category Book Review Jordan Dane No One Heard Her Scream
I had a chance recently to read a novel from a first-time author by the name of Jordan Dane. Her book, No One Heard Her Scream, is a good crime thriller, even more so when you consider it's a debut effort.
Rebecca Montgomery is a detective in San Antonio, and she's trying to be part of an investigation that is very personal. Her sister was abducted five months earlier, and a potential crime scene left lots of her blood behind but no body. She's not willing to take "no" for an answer when it comes to investigating the crime on her own, even though it might get her into hot water with her boss. Because there have been other girls who have gone missing with the same MO, she's anxious to get to the bottom of it. To get her off the case, she's given a local crime scene that appears to be arson. But the fire reveals a skeleton of a girl who was bricked up in the building many years ago. Her investigation brings her face-to-face with one Diego Galvan who's associated with a rather nasty businessman by the name of Hunter Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh is a prime suspect for the arson crime, and Galvan seems to want to help Montgomery instead of his employer. She has to figure out who set the building on fire, who killed the girl they found there, whether Cavanaugh knows about any of the disappearances, and exactly how much she should trust Galvan to help and protect her.
In terms of plot, Dane shows real promise. The story moved along well, and I didn't have any moments where I felt I was marking time or slogging through it. About the only thing I thought was a bit "off" was the immediate lust that Montgomery and Galvan had towards each other. He's a mystery person who seems to know everything about her, and their initial meeting after the fire felt a bit awkward. But if you want to treat this as a romantic crime thriller, then it falls into place a bit better. Either way, that's not enough to make me dislike the book very much. I'll be interested to see how her two follow-up novels (apparently already set to come out a couple months after this one) develop the characters. Dane could definitely be an author to watch...
I had a chance recently to read a novel from a first-time author by the name of Jordan Dane. Her book, No One Heard Her Scream, is a good crime thriller, even more so when you consider it's a debut effort.
Rebecca Montgomery is a detective in San Antonio, and she's trying to be part of an investigation that is very personal. Her sister was abducted five months earlier, and a potential crime scene left lots of her blood behind but no body. She's not willing to take "no" for an answer when it comes to investigating the crime on her own, even though it might get her into hot water with her boss. Because there have been other girls who have gone missing with the same MO, she's anxious to get to the bottom of it. To get her off the case, she's given a local crime scene that appears to be arson. But the fire reveals a skeleton of a girl who was bricked up in the building many years ago. Her investigation brings her face-to-face with one Diego Galvan who's associated with a rather nasty businessman by the name of Hunter Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh is a prime suspect for the arson crime, and Galvan seems to want to help Montgomery instead of his employer. She has to figure out who set the building on fire, who killed the girl they found there, whether Cavanaugh knows about any of the disappearances, and exactly how much she should trust Galvan to help and protect her.
In terms of plot, Dane shows real promise. The story moved along well, and I didn't have any moments where I felt I was marking time or slogging through it. About the only thing I thought was a bit "off" was the immediate lust that Montgomery and Galvan had towards each other. He's a mystery person who seems to know everything about her, and their initial meeting after the fire felt a bit awkward. But if you want to treat this as a romantic crime thriller, then it falls into place a bit better. Either way, that's not enough to make me dislike the book very much. I'll be interested to see how her two follow-up novels (apparently already set to come out a couple months after this one) develop the characters. Dane could definitely be an author to watch...