Allison Brennan

The gruesome killing of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance and another young woman draws homicide detective Carina Kincaid into an uneasy alliance with Sheriff Nick Thomas, the brother of the prime suspect in the crime and a police officer still scarred by a recent encounter with a serial killer, as they join forces to trap a psychopath before more women die. Original.

A Novel

Speak No Evil

Denaiir

3.5 stars
This was a gripping crime novel but I didn't enjoy the romance, my bad because I didn't check before picking it up that it was "romantic suspense" and not a regular crime novel. 

I loved the plot, the fact that some chapters were from the killer's point of view, his twisted logic and his back story. 
I also really enjoyed following Nick, but I don't like jumping into a story out-of-order and I could feel after a few chapters that he had starred in a previous story (see the Predator Trilogy), which made me a bit frustrated. I also did not enjoy following Carina very much so parts of the book seemed a little less interesting. However, they were both well fleshed out and overall quite strong characters. The only problem is that I was not looking for a romance, so there was simply too much of it for me and it limited my enjoyment of the story. But the killer was so perverted that it kept me interested the whole time. 

I am not going to continue with the series because I just don't like romance, but if romantic suspense is a genre that you enjoy, this one is very strong and I highly recommend it.

Don’t say a word. . . . Just scream. The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vile–her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity was scrawled across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victim’s much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina can’t make a collar or a case. She also can’t stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect’s brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation. Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a serial killer, he’s determined to prove his brother’s innocence. But his confidence is shaken when he learns of Steve’s dark side, and when a friend of the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky woman faces an unspeakable end.

Michelle Vasquez

“A life without passion isn’t much of one”

“I agree. You asked me if I was happy, and I told you the truth- my truth. I’m not like you, Em. I don’t have that lust for life or drive burning within me. How could I? My whole life I’ve been given everything I ever wanted, even when constantly reminded that I was unworthy of it. I never had to work for anything you see around you. But I would trade all of it like that,” he snaps his fingers to drive the point home, “if you could have just a sliver of your passion.”

The Society has called for their next subject, Colt. The broody, mysterious and definitely most misunderstood of the four they set their eyes upon. Colt is an enigma. On the outside he is brash, cold and collected; a womanizer of sorts. But what he is, is empty. He doesn’t have drive for much of anything, and he will go through meaningless hookups just to spark something in his life. People don’t always appear as they seem.

Emma. Professor of Ethics. Filled to the brim with secrets of her past, and how she has ulterior motives with the society, colt and the town she found herself waist deep in. 

“Speak No Evil,” by Ivy Fox is book three of The Society Series. It is an age gap, student/teacher, forbidden romance. They now have their eyes set on punishing Colt, but he has the chance to break it off and clear his name in the process. The Society is holding most of the cards, but what they don’t realize is by the unlikely pairing of Colt and Emma, they have the ability to bring them to their knees - but in the process, not only did more secrets be brought to the surface, they found comfort and understanding in each other. Colt is definitely an alpha hole to its finest, but Emma managed to go head to head with Colt and left him breathless in the process. This series gets better and better every book, and I have my theory on who is behind the mystery of the society. Do you?

Speak No Evil A Novel

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