"Murder and Mystery in Small Town America"
Reviewed by Susan Dyer
Posted September 12, 2014
Suspense | Thriller
WITHOUT A TRACE is book one in The Rock Harbor
series.
Bree Nichols and her German Shepherd Sampson are part of a
K-9 search
and rescue team in the rugged wilderness of Michigan's
Upper Peninsula.
Her best friend Naomi, and Naomi's dog Charlie, join her
as they track and
find hunters and lost children who loose their way. Bree
has also been
looking for the small plane that went down with her
husband and four year
old son in it for over a year. She knows that she needs to
let go of the
search, accept their deaths, and get on with her life, but
a part of her just
can't stop searching for the missing plane.
How could God be so cruel to
take her family from her? She doesn't believe in God and
all of her friends
keep hoping she will allow Him into her life and accept
what her life has
become. She is obsessed with finding the plane wreckage
and her friends
are very worried about her.
At first I was annoyed with Bree's reluctance to speak her
mind like she
used to but the explanation for that was yet to come. .
WITHOUT A
TRACE is such a good read with twists and turns I didn't
expect at all. The
characters are very real and I felt like I was right
there with them
searching. The villain was such a surprise! I did not
expect that at all.
All is
not well in the little town and when an acquaintance turns
up dead and
clues point to murder, Bree begins a journey to find
answers that only lead
to more questions. In this tight knit community, suddenly
friends become
suspects and the truth may be more shocking than anyone
realized.
WITHOUT A TRACE is an enjoyable Christian mystery, with
good
characters and a beautiful, well-described setting. What
I liked most about
WITHOUT A TRACE is that it ties in both mystery and faith.
Throughout
the story you see how Bree's faith develops. The story
also contains
moments of sadness, grief, happiness, and suspense. I got
pulled into the
story & characters and never wanted to put the book down.
I was flipping
the pages late into the night without realizing how much
time had gone by.
I fell in love with the characters, and enjoyed the
intrigue of a good mystery,
as well as the heartwarming tales of family and friends
woven throughout.
Now I want to read the rest of this series.
SUMMARY
Bree thinks a plane crash took the lives of her husband
and
young son, but her son Davy survived the accident. Can she
find him before it’s too late? It’s been months since the crash. K-9 search-and-rescue
worker Bree Nicholls knows the chances of finding her
husband and son in the vast wilderness of Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula grow more remote by the day. But her heart and
her
faithful dog, Samson, demand she keep searching. Deep in the woods a young boy wakes in a tiny cabin. He’s
being nursed back to health by a reclusive woman, but he
can’t figure out why she calls him by a name he doesn’t
recognize. Or why she’s calling herself his mother. He
wants
to leave, but as winter sets in, his very life depends on
her care. Meanwhile, Bree’s relentless determination to find her
family has uncovered a violent crime. With the help of
Park
Ranger Kade Matthews, she discovers the violence may be
linked to the plane crash that took her family. Could
solving the crime bring her peace with her own loss? Or,
more incredibly, reunite her family? Set in the untamed beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
the
Rock Harbor novels draw readers into the life and
adventures
of a canine search-and-rescue team as it unravels the
secrets of an enchanting wilderness.
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