Book Review: And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling

And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.25⭐
Genre ~ crime
Series ~ Ben Packard #1
Publication date ~ June 14, 2022
Page Count ~ 324
Audio length ~ 9 hours 28 minutes
Narrator ~ Linda Jones
POV ~ dual 3rd
Featuring ~ debut, police procedural, missing teens, drugs, r@pe, torture, abuse, dark

Ben, our police detective, is searching for missing teens, Jesse & Jenny.

It’s more geared towards police procedural as there isn’t really a mystery of whodunnit or where it’s taking place as we have that information all along. And the where is not a great place to be. It’s pretty dark and disturbing.

This was a pretty good debut if you can get past the horrible things happening to Jenny. I liked Ben well enough, he was about the only likable character, and his detective skills were great, so I’ll probably give the next book a try sometime.

I was able to listen to a copy as well and I thought the narrator did a great job, but why was it not a man since both POV’s were from men?

*Thanks to the author, Poisoned Pen and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

They thought he was a helpless old man. They were wrong.

When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he’s been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he’ll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector.

Personal tragedy has sent former police officer Ben Packard back to the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake in search of a fresh start. Now a sheriff’s deputy, Packard is leading the investigation into the missing teens, motivated by a family connection. As clues dry up and time runs out to save them, Packard is forced to reveal his own secrets and dig deep to uncover the dark past of the place he now calls home.

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