The Lost Ones is the third book in the Detective Nikki Cassidy series. This one takes up a little bit after the events of the second book. Once again, Nikki is called back to her hometown when a girl shows up claiming to be her long dead sister. Of course that is not possible. Now a killer seems to be targeting her. Once again, I would not read this as a stand alone, unless you want spoilers.

I can't remember if I said this in my review of the first book, The Nowhere Girls, but I read all three books in under 10 hours. That is how much this series has captivated me. This was a great follow up to the first two books. What I love about this series is that I am constantly surprised and have a hard time figuring out the solution. I also still really love Nikki and want more of her. The book ends with a huge surprise, so I hope there is a fourth book in the works.

We are back with book three in the Nikki Cassidy series. The Lost Ones is the finale written by Dana Perry. I have really enjoyed this series. Nikki has been trying to sort out her sister, Caitlin's unsolved murder. However, there is a young girl that shows up at Nikki's old family home and says that she is Caitlin. Nikki is immediately alarmed.



However, she thinks that the girl can help try and finally identify Caitlin's kiler. However before Nikki can get any information, the girl is found dead. Nikki digs into the girls friends and past desperate to find Caitlin's killer. However, someone will continue to kill to stay hidden. Nikki finds herself in a cat and mouse game -- with the killer calling her out into her old family home.



Oh this series is packed full of suspense. I love Nikki Cassidy - I really hope to see more from this author. The book is well written. The storyline is packed full of suspense. Thank you to the author, publisher and Partners in Crime Tours for allowing me to read a copy of this book - all thoughts are my own.

To start with i liked how there was a summary on the first book however as the book went on i found that half the book was pretty much a summary of the first book with a very similar storyline. I feel the author should have kept this summary brief to also entice the reader to go back and read the first book rather than retell the first book in this book. I found i skipped a lot of it as i had already read it before.
The book is part of a series so the author should encourage readers to read the whole series in the order they want them to be read in- the author seemed to try hard to make the book both a standalone read as well as part of a series which result in a lot of regurgitated narrative from the previous book.

I found Nikki annoying again- i don't know if her character is meant to come off as arrogant and conceited or not but that is how i feel she comes off as. She seems to like any kind of male attention as well but her potential love interests are always based on how they look and not on whether they actually gel together well or not.

I also found her accusing a few people of being sexist over the most minor of things which was slightly annoying. It turned out the chief was sexist but i don't feel he deserved the label she was shouting her mouth of labelling him as before that moment in his office.

I found it was a very easy read, i found myself wanting to read it and i didn't have the urge to DNF so that is a positive thing but i am not 100% on how i feel about the book. I like it but i don't think i love it.

*4 Stars*

Copy kindly received from NetGalley for an honest review.

This was an interesting read with great characters. Nikki puts everything into finding the killer but I think one day she may go too far. The ending surprised me.

This is actually a 3 1/2. I’m not sure about this novel. I enjoyed the concept of the thriller, but I wonder why it took 15 years. It took place all over Ohio where young girl were being murdered based on an old crime. The main character, Nikki, lost her sister that long ago and for whatever reason someone is taunting her many years later. She is an FBI agent that has made her purpose to solve serial killings of young girls
As much as I wanted to be fully engrossed with this book, I kept putting it down and reading something else. I wasn’t engaged with the characters, especially the main character. Aside from all her trauma flaws, she came off, to me, as unlikable. She was short with people and somewhat impulsive. It felt like she was always an arms distance from everyone. Not only that, she had no humbling qualities. She was pretty full of herself. “But being the crack investigator that I was, I deduced it was very likely because of me. Which was kind of nice”.
The other characters were just there as fill ins. 3/4 of the way through the story, it was quite obvious who the killer was, so it didn’t seem like there were a lot of twists and turns.
The writing style was ok. Written in the first person, it felt like the main character was having coffee with you and telling you her stories. I would read another of this authors works to see if the style is the same. All in all, the book was ok. I didn’t hate it or love it.

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This third installment in the Nikki Cassidy series finds the FBI agent hunting yet another murderer of young girls in rural Ohio who claims Nikki herself is his ultimate target.

When agent Cassidy receives a phone call saying a girl claiming to be her deceased sister visited her childhood home, she rushes back to Huntsdale, Ohio to investigate the lead herself. When the same girl is found strangled to death at a rest stop nearby, Cassidy finds herself on another major hunt for a serial killer. As tension mounts and more strangled victims keep turning up, Nikki struggles to find the solution to the case before she’s the next victim.

Like the other books in the series, this is a standard procedural crime drama. I felt that the culprit was somewhat easier to predict in this work although the author tried harder to lead the reader away from them as a suspect. I find it continually more difficult to like Nikki as a character. She becomes more blunt, impulsive, rude, and obnoxious as each book goes on. Lastly, each book in the series just brings up more questions about Caitlin’s murder and it’s becoming excessively implausible that every murderer in Ohio would have some obsession with Nikki and Caitlyn Cassidy. Though it’s easily readable and relatively well written, I’m planning on parting ways with Nikki at this point. ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (3.5/5)

Just wonderful. Loved this one so much. Highly recommend this author and especially this amazing book to everyone. Five well deserved stars from me.

I think this is the best book of the series. It really hit me with a bam! Detective Nikki Cassidy has her hardest case yet. Nikki receives a phone call saying that a young girl has knocked on the door of her old family saying that she is Caitlin, but how could she be when her sister Caitlin was murdered? Nikki goes to investigate but her hope for answers is quickly destroyed when the girls lifeless body is found. This police procedural has everything that I want in a book, it's well written with so many twists that it left my head spinning. I feel like I just stepped off a four hour Ferris wheel ride. Nikki is a tough cop and I love how independent she is, her character is hard, determined and she isn't shy about sharing the truth. The plot of this one is highly entertaining as I was trying to work out who the killer is whilst being knocked over by several suprise twists.

Out of the series, this was hands down the best. It was so interesting and the ending had me shook! I sincerely hope there's a 4th book coming because it cannot end like that! 😭

The third book in a series, this book picks up from where Last One to Die left off. With the discovery of a young girl's body and clue hinting at a connectino to her sister's death, Cassidy is again overwhelmed by her past. The pace starts out somewhat slow, in large part due to rehashing of the back story from the previous book, however, the pace does improve as the story unfolds. Although the characters are likable and the plot has great bones – with plenty of suspense, I found the writing to be a bit unpolished. Otherwise, an enjoyable read.

FTC disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. This has not affected the content of my review.

Another great story! Such a fun time. Still not my fave but may continue the series if bored enough.

A fast paced police procedural with lots of twists and turns.
I like the characters and the pacing of the story.
All in all, I have enjoyed getting to know Detective Nikki Cassidy. I hope she finds out what happened to her sister. She needs to know and find closure.

Thank you NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I have read books like this in the past where the same story in principle is rehashed with twists through subsequent books and unfortunately this seems to be another one. There was too much of the same story to be gripping my interest and despite being fractionally better than book two, if more was written in this series I would definitely not choose to read them.

The Lost Ones is the last book in the Detective Nikki Cassidy trilogy. I really struggled in book 2 and 3. They were like reading book one but with a tad different twist. I really liked the characters but the actual story fell flat for me.

I do have to admit though, the new covers are beautiful.
It just wasn’t a series I was that into.

This series is really incredible! This one is a continuation of being tied to the case of Nikki’s sister’s murder.

Another thrilling installment, full of heart-racing twists & turns! Absolute 5 ⭐️ read! Book 3 left me hanging & desperately wanting to read Book 4! #DanaPerry, I’m eagerly waiting for it!!!

Thank you, Dana Perry, Bookouture, & netgalley for my copy! All opinions are my own.

The book starts off with Nikki searching for a woman who claims to be her sister, who was murdered 15 years ago. What follows is Nikki and the local police trying to solve murders of young girls and it seems the murderer has Nikki in their sights. A fast paced book with a lot of thinking I had it figured out and then nope, I didn’t. This is a great thrilling read.

It's amazing that we're still going strong in the Detective Nikki Cassidy series. I enjoyed the overall feel of this book and how it worked with the previous two books in the series. It uses the crime elements perfectly and I enjoyed the twist in this book. Dana Perry always does a great job in writing this and left me wanting more.

I've struggled with this series. It's a fairly easy read, but, there was just something about it that I didn't like. With the first book, the storyline was gripping enough to keep me going. By the third book though, the storyline is almost the same as the first two and didn't have that extra something that might have turned it into a really good read.
Part of the problem is that to me, it reads very much like a kid's book. I don't know how old the author is, but the female lead doesn't really read like a grown-up woman. Everything in her world is very simplistic, almost like someone who is imagining what it would be like to be an adult but hasn't really got any experience of it. Nikki seems to fall in love with someone at the drop of a hat and it's all based on how attractive they look, no chemistry or connection to who these people actually are. In every book I've found the 'romance' to be pointless and forced. The whole idea that she would equate the brief interest she had with a police man she fancied from afar (and thought that might be a murderer) on the same level as her new lover losing his wife of many years is just odd.
The mystery feels forced to me and as I say repeating what came in the first two books. There's also the ongoing story of what happened to Nikki's sister, which is interesting, but I've now reached the point that I don't care enough to ready any more books and find out what happened.
Sorry, this just wasn't for me.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and given voluntarily.

A good book which was attention catching, good story line and a nail biting finish. I had not read any of Dana Perry's previous books but didn't feel that it impeded the book which can be read as a stand alone. Nikki was a fire cracker of a FBI agent even though she was always getting into trouble. The story line was well thought out and captivating, I had worked out who the perpetrator was but the why, how and ending eluded me until close to the end. Well written Ms Perry. Thank you NetGalley and publisher for my copy, I shall certainly keep an open for the next book,

What fresh hell has Nikki stumbled into this time? Not only is there another killer on the loose, the past is back again, perhaps in the most egregious way yet. As yet another young girl is found murdered the death of Caitlin wanders back into the spotlight.

Caitlin is back or is it someone pretending to be Caitlin, and if so, why? Why bring a new onslaught of pain and guilt by pretending to be a murder victim – the dead risen from their damp bed of earth. Nikki sees this as a way to find the guilty party. Someone somewhere must be pulling the strings, must be pushing this hurtful and manipulative narrative. Someone who thinks everyone is expendable.

This third book in the Nikki Cassidy series gives a much better indication of why the disappearance and murder of her little sister is the main event in all three books, and clearly after the cliffhanger in this one there is more to come. Kind of makes you question everything.

Where is the author going with it though, what kind of path does he want the reader to embark upon? Equally what happens when the foundation of Nikki’s character and career begins to crumble? As we wander through the series it becomes more intertwined with what appears to be a more nefarious agenda.