I always say the mark of a good thriller is when I can't tell you much in the review, and this book fits the bill. It's about two girls who go missing and two private investigators work together to figure out who kidnapped them. The pace was great, and I really liked both of the main characters. The big reveal was well done, too.

Thrillers will never go out of style in literature. Missing children will never go out of style as a plot in books. And the combination of a gruff, slightly older guy who is weary of the world pairing off with a tough, younger woman who wants to fight the world will never go out of style as compelling main characters.

Louisa Luna checked all three of those boxes with TWO GIRLS DOWN.

Luna starts the story with a mother stating that she is not a bad mother. Whether she’s telling the world, telling herself, or telling some combination of both, it is what she says. And then she cops to smoking pot and having too many boyfriends. All this sets the stage for a story of abducted children and a small town’s dirty little secrets.

The world-weary guy is Cap… I honestly forget his first name (Mike, maybe?) because he is only ever called Cap or Caplan in the book… who is an ex-cop turned PI who took the fall for a friend who had more to lose when something went wrong.

The fight-the-world woman is Vega… I remember her name is Alice because she sometimes think of herself that way, as everyone else calls her Vega… who has achieved celebrity-like status as the finder of missing children.

(I sense a series of books coming focused on the combined efforts of Cap and Vega, and a possibly romance between them… I am 100% on board with this. Just saying.)

The town where Bailey and Kylie Brandt go missing is a place called Denville in eastern Pennsylvania. Opioid addictions run rampant and the town is struggling to keep afloat, as many small towns are. This sets the stage for many dodgy suspects and a general air of suspicion against everyone from dealers to cops. There’s even a missing, handicapped adult who seems to be either a suspect or maybe taken by the same people, and his mother is dying of cancer.

(This is in no small part thanks to the pollution spewed by the coal mines in the area. I really didn’t expect there to be so many social statements in this sort of a novel but I like it. There really isn’t any better way to open someone’s eyes than to put it in a story.)

A small flaw in the story are the abundance of small-town cliches and cop-related tropes. It’s almost… too perfectly screwed up, if that makes sense. The gritty and harsh setting fits the story Luna is telling but can that many bad things really happen in that tiny section of a world? Maybe. I suppose.

Cap and Vega don’t seem like they’d work well together at all. He’s quiet and deliberative while she’s loud and reactionary (she may endear herself to him in a scene involving hot tea and a deadbeat husband’s genitals). But they get they job the job done despite the secrets she keeps and the life he has with his teenage daughter. Vega does spend a lot of time flashing back to her life in California and the cases she’s worked, and that comes off kind of disjointed and almost randomly attached to her, but it’s kind of part of her quirky nature.

In a sense, TWO GIRLS DOWN reads like a weekly crime drama. Not a case-of-the-week show like Law & Order but something that lasts a season. The characters are drawn into a vivid scene and everyone has their carefully crafted role to play. The way things turn out is entirely satisfying and it made sense and I am so glad I got the chance to read this book.

Again, to Louisa Luna, I would totally read more stories with Cap and Vega!

4.5 stars/5

Fair warning: set aside enough time to finish Two Girls Down in one sitting because you won’t be able to stop until it's over. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: two young girls disappear during a quick shopping trip to Target. Their single mother, Jamie Brandt, is heartsick and distraught. Jamie’s aunt, Maggie Shambley, contacts Alice Vega, a famous California bounty hunter, to ask her to locate her missing nieces. In less than 24 hours, Vega arrives in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. She needs a partner, someone who knows the local scene. Max Caplan, “Cap,” is her choice—once a local cop, now a private detective.

Cap is a bit of a philosopher. A private detective has a lot of time to ponder human foibles while surreptitiously monitoring illicit activities. He’s divorced, so he understands the futility of anyone getting “to have it all.” Although, he’d be out of business if folks didn’t try—or so he muses during a nooner stakeout.

Maybe the only way it gets better is to have an hour with the waitress from the diner or the fresh young babysitter in a motel room or your car with the backseat folded into the trunk.

Maybe you’re just an asshole.

Cap had stopped flipping through the possibilities a long time ago. The truth was he didn’t care why they did it; it was just his job to catch them.

Living in a rural “town of fifteen thousand everyone looked familiar,” much to Cap’s dismay. “He hated knowing people.” Tragic incidents are hard to ignore when you know their story.

The former high school football star who od’ed on oxy and Heineken. Keep your small towns, thought Cap. Give me a city where I don’t recognize the corpse.

Vega’s a solitary sort, focused and methodical, as is exemplified by her pursuit of the perfect handstand. Group yoga classes were not for her. “She got sick quickly of the instructor’s monologue, of the incense, of the women and their personalized mats.” Her solution—to buy a book and learn on her own.

Practiced the handstand until she could do it. First against the wall, then in the middle of the room. First for two minutes, then five, then ten. Now fifteen minutes in the middle of the room at four or five in the morning when she woke up.

That methodical persistence is what Alice Vega brings to her profession of fugitive recovery. But even solitary Vega needs backup when she’s tracking missing people. She turns repeatedly to her computer guru, “Bastard,” for deep background. While Bastard searches for security camera feeds and the whereabouts of Jamie Brandt’s deadbeat former husband, Vega pours over the local police blotter. Bingo: a scandal in 2014—after the overdose death (in custody) of a local high school football star, a detective resigned. Max Caplan.

Vega reaches out to Cap and tells him why she needs his help. She’s good with video feeds—finding the girl’s father—and she has the Brandt family’s full cooperation, “but there’s a piece [she] can’t get to.”

“Witness statements,” said Cap.

“Yes. I could get employees from local businesses, but the people in the parking lot, passers-by; there’s no way I could get them all.”

She paused. Cap watched her eyes travel quickly to the corner of the room as she thought.

“I could get them. It would just take time.”

“Which you don’t have,” said Cap.

“Which I don’t have,” said Vega.

Cap turns Vega down but eventually changes his mind. Or perhaps his daughter Nell changes it for him, reminding him of advice he gave her the day he quit his police job: “You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can.” Nell knows, and so does Cap, that joining forces with Vega is the right thing to do.

Kylie and Bailey Brandt may not ever be found, and if they’re not found quickly, Vega knows from bitter experience that they probably won’t be found alive. That is the first question Jamie Brandt asks her.

“When you found them, were they alive, or what?”

Vega looked her right in the eyes and said, “Sixteen alive. One dead. And one alive but”—she tapped her head—“dead.”

Time ticking away like a time-bomb on a fuse—that’s the element that makes Two Girls Down stand apart from more conventional detective stories. That and the bleak, impoverished landscape of a community torn apart by an epidemic of OxyContin and meth. Like I said, you won’t be able to put it down.

Wow... Couldn't put this book down! TWO GIRLS DOWN by Louisa Luna is everything a mystery/thriller should be. This is one roller coaster ride from beginning to end... keeps you wanting more with every turn of the page! Fantastic writing, great story, and great characters... couldn't ask for anything more!!!

"Keep your small towns, thought Cap. Give me a city where I don’t recognize the corpse."

Alice Vega is my favorite new protagonist in a mystery/thriller. She lives in California but tracks down missing kids from all over. Her fees aren't cheap but she's very good at what she does. She's tough, smart and kick-a**.

She's called in to the small town of Denville, Pennsylvania by the family of two missing sisters, ages ten and eight. Their single mom left them in the car while she quickly ran into the store for a birthday present and when she comes out they are gone.

The local police don't want her help, which really doesn't matter too much to her, so she enlists the help of an ex-cop from the local police department - Max "Cap" Caplan, who is getting tired of tracking down straying spouses and welcomes the chance to help. Soon they find this case is even more involved than they first thought.

I liked Vega. I liked Cap. The story is well-written and kept me guessing all the way through. I hope this is the start of a series with these two working together. I'm not usually a huge fan of series books but I would definitely read more about this pair.

I received this book from Penguin Random House through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read the book and leave an unbiased review.

WOW! I feel like I was a guest star in a huge criminal investigation episode! 
Cast of Main Characters...
Cap ~ ex-cop turned Private Investigator
Nell ~ Cap's teenage daughter
Alex Vega - Private Investigator from CA 
Jamie Brandt - young mom of missing daughters
Kylie Brandt - Jamie's 10 year old missing daughter
Bailey Brandt - Jamie's 8 year old missing daughter
Young and spunky mom Jamie Brandt and her two young daughters jump in the car one day, late for a birthday party.  The girls all dressed up and anxious to get to the party agree to wait in the car for their mother who still had to run into K-Mart to buy the gift to give to the girl when they arrived at the party....LATE of course!  Kylie and Bailey grow impatient.  But, eventually mom comes out ready to go.  
When she gets to the car and realizes the girls are gone, she automatically assumes that they are hiding or playing around!  So, she starts screaming for them, growing impatient herself.  Who has time for that? 
But as the minutes turn to hours, she realizes that this is no joke! Her girls are missing!  Before she knows it, the police are involved, the media is notified and the community is horrified.  Jamie's parents, Gail and Arnel, don't have the patience to wait for the understaffed, overworked police department to find her grandchildren, so she hires Ms. Alexa Vega.  Vega is a PI with an excellent track record for finding missing people.  As she gets involved, recruits Cap for his connections with the police department, and uses her own round-about ways...the story of the missing girls unravels.  
Readers won't believe who ends up being involved, what lengths they have to go through to solve this mystery, and who gets hurt and possibly dies in the process!  We read hundreds of thrillers and mysteries each year and when an author can keep us guessing until the end, it makes us LOVE this genre even more!  We look forward to getting our paper copy of this title and reading more from this talented author!
Good luck Ms. Louisa Luna and Bookouture Digital Publishing on this adventure!

Such a great book! This book kept me guessing from the beginning to the end. There were a few times that I thought maybe I knew what was going on but soon my hypothesis was turned upside down. I love Alice Vega's attitude and how she much ass she kicked. It was so awesome how all the things they cops couldn't do without a warrant, these two could. I never saw such an ending coming; I really the writing style that the author use to end this book. I also like how looking back, the author dropped hints that tied into the ending. I would absolutely recommend this book!

I received a copy of this book thanks to the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks for the opportunity!

An intense thriller based in my very own state of Pennsylvania... which doesn't paint the state in a very flattering light, but makes a valid point about a lot of small towns in America. This is an unpredictable book with a lot of action and twists, involving so many suspects that it's dizzying.

Hired by the family of two missing girls, Alice Vega drops everything and makes the trip to Pennsylvania from California. Only ten and eight, it's clear that this isn't a case of the girls just taking off. Their mother has issues of her own, but is clearly devastated and fraught with worry. If only she hadn't left them in that car to run into the store without being begged for toys or candy... if only they hadn't stopped at all. The clock is ticking, and everyone knows that the longer the young girls are missing, the less likely it is they'll be found alive. Vega enlists disgraced ex-cop and current private investigator Max Caplan to help, pulling him from his usual sordid cases into something much darker. He resists at first, but gives in. She'll need his old connections, his brain, and occasionally to rein her in.

High points include the complicated case, the weirdly charming banter between Alice and Max, the relationship between Max and his extremely likeable daughter Nell, and the unpredictability. My issues with the book are few. Vega seems too badass to be real life, and occasionally so many suspects and characters got a little confusing and I had to look back. A solid missing person thriller that manages to inject something new into a popular genre!

Could this possibly be the start of a series? I'd certainly read the next one. I could also see it as either a series or mini-series on TV, it would certainly be one that kept you on the edge of your seat.

I received an advanced copy of this book from Net Galley and Doubleday Books, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.”
~Nell (one smart daughter)
WOW! I feel like I was a guest star in a huge criminal investigation episode!
Cast of Main Characters…

Cap ~ ex-cop turned Private Investigator
Nell ~ Cap’s teenage daughter
Alex Vega – Private Investigator from CA
Jamie Brandt – young mom of missing daughters
Kylie Brandt – Jamie’s 10 year old missing daughter
Bailey Brandt – Jamie’s 8 year old missing daughter
YOUNG AND SPUNKY MOM JAMIE BRANDT AND HER TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS JUMP IN THE CAR ONE DAY, LATE FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY. THE GIRLS ALL DRESSED UP AND ANXIOUS TO GET TO THE PARTY AGREE TO WAIT IN THE CAR FOR THEIR MOTHER WHO STILL HAD TO RUN INTO K-MART TO BUY THE GIFT TO GIVE TO THE GIRL WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE PARTY….LATE OF COURSE! KYLIE AND BAILEY GROW IMPATIENT. BUT, EVENTUALLY MOM COMES OUT READY TO GO.
WHEN SHE GETS TO THE CAR AND REALIZES THE GIRLS ARE GONE, SHE AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMES THAT THEY ARE HIDING OR PLAYING AROUND! SO, SHE STARTS SCREAMING FOR THEM, GROWING IMPATIENT HERSELF. WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT?
BUT AS THE MINUTES TURN TO HOURS, SHE REALIZES THAT THIS IS NO JOKE! HER GIRLS ARE MISSING! BEFORE SHE KNOWS IT, THE POLICE ARE INVOLVED, THE MEDIA IS NOTIFIED AND THE COMMUNITY IS HORRIFIED. JAMIE’S PARENTS, GAIL AND ARNEL, DON’T HAVE THE PATIENCE TO WAIT FOR THE UNDERSTAFFED, OVERWORKED POLICE DEPARTMENT TO FIND HER GRANDCHILDREN, SO SHE HIRES MS. ALEXA VEGA. VEGA IS A PI WITH AN EXCELLENT TRACK RECORD FOR FINDING MISSING PEOPLE. AS SHE GETS INVOLVED, RECRUITS CAP FOR HIS CONNECTIONS WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND USES HER OWN ROUND-ABOUT WAYS…THE STORY OF THE MISSING GIRLS UNRAVELS.
READERS WON’T BELIEVE WHO ENDS UP BEING INVOLVED, WHAT LENGTHS THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO SOLVE THIS MYSTERY, AND WHO GETS HURT AND POSSIBLY DIES IN THE PROCESS! WE READ HUNDREDS OF THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES EACH YEAR AND WHEN AN AUTHOR CAN KEEP US GUESSING UNTIL THE END, IT MAKES US LOVE THIS GENRE EVEN MORE! WE LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING OUR PAPER COPY OF THIS TITLE AND READING MORE FROM THIS TALENTED AUTHOR!
GOOD LUCK MS. LOUISA LUNA AND BOOKOUTURE DIGITAL PUBLISHING ON THIS ADVENTURE!

Thank you to Doubleday Books and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review.


Jamie is the single mother of Kylie and Bailey, one day while on the way to a birthday party she stops at Kmart for the gift when she returns to the car they are gone. Her sister hires famed private investigator Alice Vega to find the girls.


Alice hires Cap to help her and the two begin looking at everything. The deeper they look the worse it looks. Meanwhile Jamie is losing it at the thought of never seeing her girls again.


I know my description was super short but there are so many twists in this book that I can't reveal them all it will ruin this experience. I couldn't stop reading, and man did I love Alice Vega. I say to you that I am really heartbroken this isn't a start to a series because I could read about Alice Vega solving cases every single day for the next year and not begin to tire of her.


This book is horribly dark and scary, and I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what Alice and Cap would find. Would it be good news? or bad news or maybe a bit of both. This is my first book by this author but it won't be the last. I feel like I am not even expressing this the right way, I want to rave about this book, but I don't want to give away even a single twist. The way the author ties it all together is masterful.


I mean I won't lie I had no clue, I suspected like two pieces of the puzzle, but not in the right way at all. Normally I have a pretty decent idea of what is going to happen or who did it, but this kept throwing me every time another twist was revealed.

I loved this book. I would have never have guessed the outcome. I was very much blown away when it finally was all revealed. This book kept me guessing the entire way. When I thought I had it figured out, a curveball would be thrown. I definitely recommend this book.

This novel was absolutely mesmerizing! I particularly liked the two investigators, Alice Vega and Max Caplan, and the way the investigation was handled. Louisa describes her characters in such detail that you can clearly picture the scene she is writing. Her descriptions of the interactions between the characters every step of the way through the investigation is so good! This novel is set in the small town of Denville, Pennsylvania. Jamie Brandt's two young daughters, Kylie and Bailey, have disappeared from a strip mall parking lot. One of Jamie's relatives hires investigator Alice Vega to investigate their disappearance. Vega is intelligent and very good at what she does. Vega brings Caplan on board to help with the investigation. Vega and Caplan quickly learn the best way to efficiently work together. They follow lead after lead, hoping they won't run out of time to save the girls. Vega's dark memories are presented in pieces throughout the story, adding to the tension building. Nothing was what I expected with this novel. This novel explores kidnapping, drugs, and crime. It also explores the intricacies of family relationships. Pay attention and make sure you have time to read, because you will not be able to put this novel down once you start it!

This book is definitely a book I would recommend to those who love crime thriller mysteries. The author does such an amazing job at developing the characters and pulling you into this story, which is not an easy task. Everyone needs to take a chance on this author if you love thrilling books, which are written well and defined in a way that makes you keep turning pages!

What a fantastic read! TWO GIRLS DOWN is Lisbeth Salander meets Cormoran Strike. The dynamic between the two characters is so captivating and it's a great addition to the anticipation and thrill of the case. With a shockingly unexpected ending, TWO GIRLS DOWN is the perfect suspense story to start off the year.

This is a quick read and a fun one. I received my copy free and early in exchange for this honest review courtesy of Net Galley and Doubleday. It becomes available to the public tomorrow, January 9, 2018.

A frazzled mother in a small Pennsylvania town pops into a big-box store one afternoon, leaving her two elementary-aged girls in the car. They’re old enough not to wander off with some weirdo, and she’s just going to be a minute. When she comes back, they’re gone.

Our protagonists in equal measure are Cap, a former cop who’s left the force in disgrace, and Vega, an out-of-state PI brought in by the girls’ relatives. Vega seeks Cap out after the local cop shop refuses to work with her; sparks fly.

If you take the story apart and look at its elements, it is all old material and should be stale. We have the missing children; a single grieving female detective, a vigilante type with little to lose; a slightly-older, single-dad, lonely older male detective, all of which leads to romance, because heaven forbid we should ever have a competent female private eye without a sizzling chemical frisson to keep readers from feeling threatened by her competence. We have the single dad’s (also-competent) teenage daughter left alone for long periods of time, vulnerable to the forces of evil. And of course our female detective has to be diminutive, a tiny-firecracker type. Even Vega’s love of firearms isn’t new; consider Kinsey Millhone and Stephanie Plum. And our female detective has to be a very light eater. God forbid she should chow down at dinner time; no, she pushes her food around and away.

The pieces of this thing have been done to death. And yet.

And yet, the whole of the story is so much more than the sum of its parts. A strong writer can take overdone elements and make them gleam, and that’s what Luna has done here.

The thing that makes it work is the element of surprise. When I am looking ahead, I can often see, in a broad sense, where we are going, but when I try to predict how we’ll get there, I see three possibilities, and Luna always comes up with a fourth at the most unexpected of times. Vega’s “roofless rage” gives her a no-holds-barred, Dirty-Harry-Lite kind of approach; she’s never killed anyone, but if she’s always as off the wall as she is here, it’s a miracle. But the other miracle? The fact that I am wondering what she is like at other times demonstrates how well Luna has developed her characters. Cap is a well of timeworn chivalrous decency, but Vega wants to take the kind of people that would deliberately hurt a child and “put them in the fucking earth.”

Luna uses lots of crackling dialogue and a spare prose style that makes this book accessible to anyone that finished the eighth grade, and possibly some that didn’t. Although there’s no indication that this will become a series, one has to wonder if such a thing might happen. My own preference would be to see Vega act independently of romantic entanglements, because she has the potential to be a feminist hero, and we need one of those right now.

One way or another, this is a read you won’t want to miss. Highly recommended.

4.5 Stars

Welcome to the New Year of 2018!  For my first reading pick of the New Year I read Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna, an exciting crime thriller about young two girls who go missing from their car in a mall parking lot on the way to a birthday party.  After the girls go missing their mother enlists help from famous bounty hunter Alice Vega and disgraced ex-cop Max Caplan.  With the help of The Bastard, Vega's behind the scenes hacker assistant, they begin to slowly unravel the mystery of what really happened to the girls.  But will they find them in time?

This book is a page turning mystery that will keep you guessing from the edge of your seats until the very end.  It is kind of a police procedural, which I know many people do not like because it takes you through the investigation step by step as the investigators discover each piece of evidence, slowly peeling back the onion.  But Luna has accomplished this wonderfully, providing so many twists and turns along the way you will be begging for the next piece of evidence and next piece of the puzzle.  Luna will have you suspecting everyone you meet.

I really enjoyed this book and I really loved Cap, with his sweet relationship with his daughter, and Vega, a real badass.  They made a great investigative team that was fun to watch develop throughout the book.  I did not see the ending coming and found the resolution to be a more than a bit disturbing, but sadly I am sure it is not too far from off from what has happened to real girls who have disappeared.  I would highly recommend this book and am looking forward to more books from Luna in the future.

In fact, I kind of got the feeling that this may lead into a series?!?

Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday Books for the advanced copy.

I almost did not request this book as an ARC. I am not usually a fan of mysteries or thrillers. But it's 2018 and I could stand to experience something new, so I took the chance on Louisa Luna's new novel and I was not disappointed. This ARC was provided by Doubleday Books via Netgally in return for an honest review. 

Two girls are taken from a Kmart parking lot and their mother is frantically looking for them. There seem to be no leads and the police are at a standstill, when the grandmother calls in a famous face. Alex Vega has found every person she has ever searched for (although the condition they are in when she finds them varies) and is now being paid to work either with or around the police in order to find the children. Vega enlists the help of a local, disgraced cop, Cap, who is also very skilled at solving cases and is now retired from police work because he took the fall for another cop.

Something remarkable about this book is how it bends your expectations, especially in regards to gender. Our famous, tireless investigator Vega is female, and Cap is a single dad who maintains an excellent relationship with his daughter Nell, who is no slouch in the intelligence department herself. The characters in this story are very interesting and you will worry about and care for them as the story moves forward. 

There is a very important reason I like to give all books with a relatively slow start until about 50% on the ol' Kindle; often something goes down by that point that picks up the pace and begins the race to the end. And a seemingly out of place murder starts our investigators on a trail that will end even more disturbingly than you might imagine. I was absolutely on the edge of my seat right until the end and it was just perfect. 

If you're a lover of mysteries and crime novels, you should definitely pick up Two Girls Down, out today at a bookstore near you!

This book has just about everything I want in a suspense novel. Great writing, strong characters, and a sense of freshness in the genre. It was compelling and hard to put down. Huge fan!

4.25-4.5 STARS

On a Saturday afternoon, in the small Pennsylvania town of Denville, 10 year-old Kylie Brandt and her 8 year-old sister Bailey, went missing from a strip mall. Already late for a birthday party, their mother, Jamie, ran into a store to purchase a gift, leaving the girls unattended in her car. When Jamie returned, she was met with her very worst nightmare—her girls were missing, and the town’s understaffed and overworked police force were left with nary a clue.

In a very unlikely pairing, ex-police officer-turned-PI, Max Caplan, teams up with a no-nonsense bounty hunter, Alice Vega, who has an established track record in locating missing children. Hired by the family to aid the authorities, Vega recruits Cap when she meets resistance from the local police. Together they work the case, but with much resistance and little help from the officials in charge.

The journey towards discovery is a long and twisty road, paved with many suspenseful moments along the way. The well-developed characters are multi-faceted and the overall story is intricately detailed and complex. Right from the get-go, the story pulled me in and held me in its grip, right through till the very end. And while certain aspects of the story dared to stretch the lines of believability, I was so engrossed that I happily suspended all of my conflicting, rational thoughts..

Throughout this book, there was an undercurrent running between Vega and Cap, eluding to a potential romantic connection. But much to my dismay, the story’s conclusion left this possibility unresolved and dangling in the wind. Nor did the author give us any real insight as to what their futures might hold—whether that be separate OR together. Hence, the unsatisfactory and disappointing ending is what led to my 4 star rating, as opposed to the 5 star rating it might otherwise have deserved.

Really excellent read, definitely kept me coming back and turning the pages. Well written, great story - kept you guessing, but moved swiftly as well - fabulous characters....was sad to see this one come to end. Looking very forward to reading more by this writer.