Vulnerable (Morgans of Nashville #4). Mary Burton. Kensington. March 2016. 384 pp.
ISBN#: 9780786039418.
The
opening scene is downright creepy. A
pervert manages to awaken the sexy side of young Elisa, a stranger who had
shared a few cups of coffee. The scene
that started as hot and sexy becomes cruel, then scary, and finally fatal. The stranger thinks to himself there are many
Elisa’s. That is just the start of this
horrific tale!
The
story in some ways is familiar. Young
girls getting attention from a charm who sprays them with compliments. The warnings from others are ignored with the
usual comment, “I know what I’m doing.”
Warnings that morph into realistic out-of-control attack and then death!
Georgia
Morgan is a forensic technician working with the Nashville Police
Department. She’s known as superb at her
work and never gets rattled when testifying at trials. She’s also a sexy singer
on the side. Now Amber, the only girl to survive the disappearance of three
young girls in the woods near Nashville, appears and wants to find the girls
who were never recovered. Georgia
wonders why Amber, who had a very bad concussion from the event, would return
to get involved in what she can’t remember.
Amber
was suspected of knowing more than she was saying, so much so that she went out
of town and got a college degree. But now that she’s returned, how can she
possibly help? She gets mugged on her
first night home. But the tale is really only just beginning for Amber knows so
much more than she is letting on and bad liars leave traces of their
activities. The reader, however, will be unable to figure out Amber’s role in
the kidnapping and murders as well as her motives and those of a guilty male.
It’s
a great story but it’s definitely not a romance! It has just enough spins and twists to keep
the reader guessing. Very fine,
realistic murder mystery!
