Vendetta (Nikki Boyd Files, #1)

by Lisa Harris

No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after ten years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels that this case is getting personal, and that she is not the hunter at all--but actually the one being hunted.

With this explosive first book in the new Nikki Boyd Files, Lisa Harris takes readers on a fast-paced pursuit of justice that will have them holding their breath until the heart-stopping finish.

• ISBN10: 1493400452
• ISBN13: 9781493400454
• Publish Date: 6 October 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

I was never going to love this. I always find Christian fiction a bit too preachy for my tastes. That said, I've read Lisa Harris' Southern Crimes series and that was alright.

Vendetta though was a long boring ride. The characters were flat and whiney. I get that they're grieving - but I don't want to read 300+ pages about how they lost people. And how they can potentially lose everyone else. There was just way too much death and not enough happiness. It was flat out depressing.

On top of that was lacklustre romance - because really she's in love with her dead best friend's husband (who's only been dead for a year - I hate that plot at the best of times but a year?) - which was overlaid with guilt, timidness and lots of second guessing.

Plus I expect my badass cop character to be somewhat badass. Nikki doesn't seem to be particularly competent at her job. From the hostage situation she panics in (the first one to clarify with the knife), to the ending where she leads the bad guy to a group of people who end up shot (well one, but one too many).

I bought the second book but I'm already regretting it - I doubt I can bring myself to read it. I'd rather go read Tracey Crosswhite. 1.5 stars.