🎧 Book Review: The Wrong Woman by Leanne Kale Sparks

Genre ~ thriller

Featuring ~ FBI, police procedural, missing child, child molestation and some brutal, graphic scenes

POV ~ dual 3rd person

Series ~ Kendall Beck #1

Release date ~ February 8, 2022

Page count ~ 316

Audio length ~ 10 hours 39 minutes

My rating ~ 3.75⭐

My review:

For the most part I liked this one and it kept me pretty engaged. We have to follow along with a couple different story lines of missing people and dead people that weave around and into each other.

FBI agent, Kendall Beck is working a case of a missing 5 year old girl, Emily (luckily she’s found) when her best friend and roommate, Gwen, goes missing and ultimately turns up dead.
While Detective Adam Taylor is already working on the murder of a woman named Jenna, he is given Gwen’s case to solve. Could the deaths be linked to something that happened in Kendall’s past?

I liked that each chapter gave the date and time, but that would probably be easier to keep track of when you read it, not listen to it.
Although I found some things predictable, I did not see one little zinger coming and that was exciting.

Now about the narration ~ I know it must be super hard for them to keep track of different voice tones for different characters and I give them major props for that, however I could really only enjoy this narrators regular voice she used for Kendall. I really wish there was a male narrator for Adam’s pov parts.

I wouldn’t mind a possible series with Kendall and Adam teaming up again.

*Thank you Netgalley, Dreamscape Media LLC and Leanne Kale Sparks for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

The past is never far behind, as a string of murders threatens to unleash long-buried secrets in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of Melinda Leigh and T. R. Ragan.

The only survivor of Denver’s notorious “Reaper” serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She’s neck-deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams–but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake.

Devastated by the news of Gwen’s death, Kendall teams up with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer. Gwen’s fiance, Ty Butler, is being evasive about the last time he saw Gwen, and as the evidence mounts against him, he’s arrested for the murder. With every new clue, Kendall questions how well she really knew her friend. And when Gwen’s dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude of her murder. The Reaper has returned to Denver–and he’s not stopping at just one victim.

As the trauma of Kendall’s past comes roaring back, she and Adam have no time to spare before more bodies start piling up. And then Kendall makes a shocking discovery that reveals the horrifying truth behind Emily Williams’s disappearance. Now, Kendall must confront her darkest fears as she and the Reaper face off one more time. 

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