Faceless

I'm so enjoying this series of murder-mystery/romantic suspense books set in the very small but very deadly town of Pike, WI. With main characters who are not part of your usual law enforcement agencies, there are real fish out of water moments and they do land themselves in a pickle every so often! Wynter lost her mother when she was 4. She was in the car when her mother was killed and she returns to her gravesite every year. But this year things are about to get dangerous. Wynter received new evidence about her mother's murder and she unleashes a whole passel of worms when she doesn't just kick the can but upends it! Noah and Wynter have been circling each other for years, neither really facing up to the attraction between them but Noah is not about to let Wynter face this investigation on her own. Especially not when people they speak to mysteriously die afterwards! He's used to not being everyone's favourite person, he is a Game Warden after all, but he's never been actively hunted either. Lovely slow burn romance, friends to lovers, with a heaping of suspense. I was kept guessing as to who the murderer was, there were more than one or two red herrings on that front. Hoping that there are more in this series to come. I received an early copy from the publisher via Netgalley and this review is completely voluntary

FACELESS is the second instalment in Alexandra Ivy’s contemporary, adult PIKE WISCONSIN romantic, suspense thriller focusing on the people of Pike, Wisconsin. This is thirty-one year old, conservation officer Noah Heller, and twenty-nine year old, restaurant owner Wynter Moore’s story line. FACELESS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous Told from several third person perspectives including Noah and Wynter FACELESS story line is revealed where necessary. focuses on Noah and Wynter’s search for the truth. Approximately twenty-five years earlier Wynter lost her mother to a fatal shooting, a shooting the police blamed on an armed robbery gone bad. Fast forward to present day wherein Wynter comes into possession of a photograph from that fateful day, pulling our heroine into an investigation of her own but with each so-called witness interview, Wynter and Noah would so discover, murder followed in their wake. What ensues is the search for the truth, and the fall-out as a someone does not want their secrets revealed. FACELESS is a Pandora’s box of murder and betrayal premise., vengeance, secrets and lies; family, relationships, infidelity and trust. As the story line unfolds, the reader is pulled into a one family’s not-quite hidden dysfunctional history, a history of which our heroine had not been aware. As Wynter and Noah begin to uncover the secrets of the Pike, Wisconsin, the secrets of the Moore family reveal as complex and sordid past. The premise is intriguing and captivating; the characters are energetic and colorful; the romance is passionate but secondary to the storyline

A 25 year old murder, secrets, lies and a crazy killer come to light in the mystery suspense. “Secrets never stay buried,” Noah sharply interrupted, his tone equally fierce. “Eventually Pandora’s box would have been opened.” Wynter was four years old when her mother was murdered. 25 years later she finds out her mother wasn’t the person she thought. Noah is helping her look into what really happened. What a shocker. “A man needs a soft place to land at the end of a day,” his dad had said. “Find that soft place. . . .” The romance was more a after thought but still a good story.