Hidden: First in a New Mystery Series. Karen E. Olsen. Severn House Publishers. November
2015. 224 pp. ISBN#: 9780727885326.
Nicole
Jones has been hiding on Block Island, off the New England Coast. She runs a bike touring business during the
tourist season and has only two good friends, a slightly older man, Steve
McQueen, and friends who run a spa and sponsor Nicole’s paintings in a local
gallery. Life is good and Nicole’s no
longer always looking over her shoulder.
Perhaps she was too comfortable but that’s all about to end!
Zeke
Chapman and Nicole crash into each other.
At first the reader thinks it’s pure coincidence but it’s really not
that simple. Zeke first of all has
assumed the name of an FBI agent. His
presence is as exciting to Nicole as it was when they were lovers in Paris,
France. For both of them are
professional hackers. Years ago they did
something years ago that involved stealing a huge amount of cash and leaving
behind someone who wasn’t supposed to die but did. As the story progresses we
learn that Zeke has a job for Nicole to do, but after a while we’re not sure if
Zeke is truly friend or foe. The
confusing but terrifying scenes raise the tension level a hundred-fold for
sure.
Nicole
doesn’t want to tell anybody her secrets but eventually winds up doing so as
the friends she has made on the island truly care about her and don’t want to
see her in this perilous condition.
Others arrive who were totally unexpected and it turns out that Nicole
left a clue for certain persons to find her; whether it was an accident or just
plain stupidity doesn’t really matter as she’s now in very serious trouble,
with both her enemies and her friends.
Hidden… is the first in a new series that will
thrill those who love mysteries, thrillers or adventure novels. It’s a complex yet simple plot at the same
time that is all too credible in this day and age when hacking is developing
into an international problem that can shake the financial world of companies,
individuals and even the government.
Reading it makes one realize no one’s bank account is really safe and
the power behind hackers is more of a near threat than perhaps we previously
thought. Nicely done, Karen E. Olsen!
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