Young girls are vanishing from the Bear Claw Creek area of Colorado, and the BCCPD is working overtime in the hope of finding not only the perpetrator, but also the missing girls alive. Unfortunately, the internal turmoil w/in the BCCPD is hindering the ability of the staff to focus on the investigation. When the iconic head of the Bear Claw Creek Crime Lab retired, the police chief expanded the unit and hired three young female criminalists--Alissa Wyatt, Cassie Dumont, and Maya Cooper--to run the new shop. The old hands in the PD resent the new hires and either ignore them or treat them w/ outright hostility.
To help smooth things over between the two groups, the chief orders Detective Tucker McDermott to work w/ Alissa Wyatt on the case. The problem w/ this forced arrangement is that Wyatt and McDermott have been studiously avoiding one another ever since they had a romantic close call when Wyatt was new to the area. McDermott--a commitment-phobe--didn't want the complications of a relationship w/ a coworker, especially when he planned on moving to another job in the very near future. The working partnership strains their resolve to stay detached, and sparks fly even as danger threatens Wyatt.
Ms. Andersen has a lot of ground to cover in a relatively short book: setting the stage w/ the Bear Claw Creek PD, establishing believable characters, developing a romance between Wyatt and McDermott, and describing a complex series of escalating crimes. Since this is the first book in a series of three--Cassie Dumont and Maya Cooper have future stories--Ms. Andersen must tie up enough loose ends to make Alissa Wyatt's story complete and satisfying on its own, while leaving enough open questions to be covered (presumably) in the later books. The good news is that she does and impressive job on all fronts. This was a terrific read and I can't wait for the arrival of next two installments (already on order from Amazon).
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