There are times when you pick up a suspense novel that keeps you so engaged that you lose all sense of your surroundings. That is how DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS by Amanda Kyle Williams kept me for a day. I was absorbed from the start into this mystery with Keye Street, a private detective who once was an investigator for the FBI.

Sheriff Meltzer, from a little town called Whisper calls to request her services. There has been two bodies found in their woods in a stream, a dumping ground for a serial killers and he needs her professional help.

Keye agrees to help this small town sheriff find answers. The unwelcoming small town residents are not making it easy for her. She is an outsider with a reputation, and she is a woman. The sheriff's deputies feel that she is a threat to them one way or another. The community itself gives her a hard time. Do they have something to hide? To make matters worse, Keye feels an attraction to Meltzer. He is attractive and single with a habit of flirting with her during several opportunities. What has she gotten herself into? She still loves her boyfriend, Rauser who waits for her back at home.

Someone has kidnapped two thirteen year olds. One of the girls has been taken within the last year and the other one ten years before. They were held and tortured and left at the bottom of a stream. Can Keye help Sheriff Meltzer find this killer before he strikes again?

Feeling that it is someone well known in Whisper, Keye shakeups some of the locals with her questioning. No one can believe that one of their own can do such a thing. It had to be an outsider in a nearby town. Wouldn't they notice someone suspicious of holding a teenage girl captive for so long?

If you are looking for suspense, be ready to devote hours reading DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS before putting it down. The ending will leave you astonished for days afterwards.

DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS by Amanda Kyle Williams is a must for your bookshelf!