Sunday Suspense: Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

 

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,

   Right Behind You is the seventh book in Lisa Gardner's popular FBI Profiler series. It is published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. This story begins eight years ago when Telly Ray Nash took a baseball bat to his father's head to save his little sister, Sharlah, from being murdered. With a mother and father lying dead in the family double-wide trailer, years of abuse had finally come to an end. Years later, we return to Oregon and the lives of FBI Profilers Pierce Quincy and his wife, Rainie Connor. Their foster daughter is Sharlah Nash, who has grown up to be a very capable and caring teenager. Although she is still coping with the fractured memories of her parents' death, Sharlah is determined to be the best person she can be. Then one morning, several miles away, at the EZ Gas Station, a customer, and a store clerk are gunned down in cold blood. And at the end of the station's video feed stands Telly Ray Nash, gun in hand, as he shoots the surveillance camera. 

  Sheriff Shelly Atkins and her team begin to investigate the killings. She calls in Pierce Quincy to aid her in profiling why Nash is seemingly on a killing spree. But the case gets deadlier when Telly's foster parents are also found murdered. Could Telly Ray Nash be targeting his sister next? Pierce Quincy and Rainie Connor will soon find out that danger can lurk right behind you.

  This novel will a thrilling page-turner with a sharp and biting narrative that engulfed our favorite Profilers in one of their most dangerous cases. I was treated to a nerve-wracking tale that had me once again sacrificing sleep to continue reading. Lisa Gardner has a love for her characters that is shown brightly in this novel. Sharlah Nash was very smart and fearless. Right Behind You was the kind of book that loves to trick readers into believing they have the answers. Just when I thought I had figured the mystery out, Gardner presented another aspect that deepened the thrills.

  I read this in part with the duel performances of actors, Luke Daniels and Teri Schnaubelt. Daniels handled Pierce and Telly's narratives. While Schaubelt handled Rainie, Sharlah, and Shelly's parts of the story. I enjoyed both of their voices and felt that they added an extra dimension to the characters. Excellent work.

  Right Behind you was a four-star read for me. Lisa Gardner never fails to make my reading exciting.   

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