Today is release day for The Girl in The Moss by Loreth Anne White and I delighted to be able to bring you my review. Loreth writes romantic suspense, mystery, and thrillers. Below you will find the book cover and description followed by my review.
The Girl in the Moss by Loreth Anne White
A shallow grave exposes deadly secrets as bestselling author Loreth Anne White brings her thrilling series of romantic suspense to its shocking conclusion…
Disgraced ex-cop Angie Pallorino is determined to make a new start for herself as a private investigator. But first, she and her lover, newly promoted homicide detective James Maddocks, attempt a quiet getaway to rekindle a romance struggling in the shadows of their careers. The peace doesn’t last long when human skeletal remains are found in a nearby mossy grove.
This decades-old mystery is just what Angie needs to establish her new career—even as it thrusts her and Maddocks back into the media spotlight, once again endangering their tenuous relationship.
Then, when Angie’s inquiry into the old crime intersects with a cold case from her own policing past—one that a detective on Maddocks’s new team is working—the investigation takes a startling twist. It puts more than Angie’s last shot at redemption and a future with Maddocks at risk. The mystery of the girl in the moss could kill her.
The Girl in the Moss – My Review
This is book 3 in the Angie Pallorino series and it gets a five star review from me. I have to admit, I haven’t read the other books in the series, but this didn’t matter. From the first page I was hooked and I finished this book in two days. It was fast, explosive, and a thrilling read from start to finish.
The first page of the book captured my attention and took readers to the heart of this story. We meet Jasmine Gulati a young lady on a fly fishing expedition and we witness her fall into the river after being hit over the head. This happened twenty-four years ago. The next chapter takes us to the present and we have Pallorino and Maddocks fly fishing in the same stretch of river. A shallow grave is unearthed by a man out with his dog and this begins the investigation.
As Angie is no longer a detective and working as a private investigator she gets hired by Jasmine’s grandmother to find out what happened in the run up to her granddaughter’s accident and subsequent death.
There are lots of buried secrets to uncover as the story unfolds and Pallorino finds herself in danger and under threat as she tried to dig up the past in this small town. At 80% of the book I thought the murder had been figured out and was wondering what was going to happen next. Some additional information was revealed and a whole new twist happened.
This book kept me on the edge of my seat and there were some very unsavoury characters involved. The writing was excellent, the characters well developed, and I had no trouble relating to Pallorino even though I hadn’t read the previous books. I will be going back to read them now though.
This is a book that will pull you in from page one and it won’t let you go until you finish. I would advise you to be prepared not to put this one down as the deeper you go the more answers you’ll want to uncover. This is an intense, shocking thriller, and one I highly recommended.
I received an ARC from the publishers via NetGalley and I have now found a new author to add to my must read list.
The Girl in the Moss is available now in ebook, paperback, and audiobook from Amazon and all other retailers.
Until next time,
Keep reading and writing,
Amanda
Amanda J Evans is an award-winning Irish author and writing coach. Amanda writes adult romance that often crosses into paranormal and fantasy. Growing up with heroes like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, her stories centre on good versus evil with a splice of love and magic thrown in too. Her books have all won awards and her novella, Hear Me Cry, won the Book of the Year Award at the Dublin Writers Conference 2018. Amanda is also the author of Surviving Suicide: A Memoir from Those Death Left Behind, published in 2012.
