Hideout by Louisa Luna is the third installment in the Alice Vega series.

Vega is a likeable, admirable, and tough private investigator who specializes in finding missing persons.

In this novel, ,Vega is hired to locate Zeb Williams, a former college football player who vanished in 1984 after scoring a touchdown for the wrong team. Her search leads her to a small town in Oregon, where she encounters the Liberty Boys, a group of white supremacists


Hideout is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that explores the themes of racism, extremism, and identity. Luna’s writing is sharp and engaging, creating a vivid sense of place and atmosphere.

The characters are well-developed and complex, especially Vega, who is a badass heroine with a soft spot for the vulnerable and the oppressed. The plot is fast-paced and twisty, with plenty of action and surprises. Fans of the previous books in the series will enjoy the dynamic between Vega and Cap, who have a strong chemistry and a mutual respect.

Hideout is a satisfying and thrilling read that will keep you hooked until the end.

An okay addition to the Alice Vega series, but not my favorite. I found it a bit slow and hard to get into. Even though this is the 3rd book in the series, it can be read as a stand alone. There are a few references to events in other books, but not something that will prevent you from understanding what's going on.

Alice is investigating the disappearance of a college football player who ran off the field during a game and kept running - never to be seen again. Since this wasn't a current case, there wasn't a lot of urgency or action to keep my interest up. Alice also doesn't work much with Cap in this book. I missed that interaction.

I enjoyed the storyline but it was a bit slow for my taste.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Alice Vega is back in her newest adventure in Hideout. I've enjoyed this series and the newest book didn't disappoint. When Alice is hired to find a missing football star from the 70s, she ends up in a small Washington town where he was last known to be. The town has its own skeletons with deep roots in white supremacy. Alice finds herself looking to not only locate the missing football star but also to stop the hate group in the community.

Although the previous books have showcases the relationship between Cap and Alice this book focuses more on Alice, which I really enjoyed. They still talk to each other, but Cap is working through his feels about Alice that happened at the end of the last book, The Janes.

This series can be read out of order, but I highly recommend reading them in order. It'll give you more context on who the characters are and there is a lot of small mentions of the previous books in Hideout.

I can't wait to see more adventures from Cap and Alice in the future.

I just didn’t love this one as much as the others but not enough to deter me from reading more from this author in the future. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for this copy for review

I love Alice Vega. She is a complete bada**. Set on doing things her way and only her way, there doesn’t seem to be room in her life for anything or anyone else.

In this story, she has to solve a 30 year old murder but just because it’s decades old doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous.

Vega does as Vega always does, gets help to keep in the sideline for when she’s in peril. You know how she is. If you’ve liked or loved her previous stories, then You won’t be let down. If you’ve never read an Alice Vega novel, I suggest you start at the beginning.

This was such an intense and thriller and yet I never know what I’m going to get and I’m always going to be sitting on the edge of my seat.

I absolutely loved the duo of Cap and Vega in this series so i was bummed they didn’t work together much in this one. I feel like this one was a bit slowler than the others and i lost track of what the real mystery was. I still want to follow along on this series and see what they get up to next but this one wasn’t my fav

I liked this one, but I think my dislike of the character Alice Vega, just kept me from loving it. Good plot and writing, it just wasn't for me.

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I love this series. It is so good. I love Alice Vega and her story and how Louisa Luna writes this series, just hands down such a good one

Alice Vega is a unique private investigator who is extraordinarily good at finding missing persons. In this third book of the series, she is asked to find missing sports star Zeb Williams who disappeared ten years ago. Many have tried to find him before but no one has succeeded. Alice’s only lead is a photo of him taking in a small town of Ilona in Oregon not long after his disappearance. While she’s making enquiries of people who knew him then, she comes across a group of local young white nationalists hell bent on making life difficult for those who don’t agree with them. Her decision to take them on, not only distracts her from her original mission but causes trouble for her family and friends.

Although Alice is a smart, resourceful PI who isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions and charge in boots and all, it seems a bit of a stretch for her to go full-on lone wolf to take on this dangerous group of violent young men by herself, especially with the Sheriff trying to get her to leave town. Alice’s one time partner, ex-cop Max Caplan is noticeably absent, tied up with family business, and also not knowing where he stands with Alice. Hopefully, we’ll see Cap back next time, or at least a new side-kick for Alice so she has someone to share the case with and to watch her back. The ending was also just too contrived and didn’t really work for me. Despite that, there were many enjoyable scenes, snippets of humour and interesting characters and I won’t hesitate to look out for the next book in the series. 3.5★

HIDEOUT by Louisa Luna

Alice Vega goes in deep and gets more than she bargained for while on a new missing persons case. She’s stumbled upon a white supremacist group and she’s ready to take each member head on, one-by-one.

Both Cap and Nell get involved this time around and I’m loving this familial group at work and at play.

I didn’t connect with THE JANES as much, the last book in the series, but feel that the magic is back with HIDEOUT. The magic, I believe is the character makeup of Vega and the interpersonal dynamics between her and Cap.

In this book, Vega’s personality shines. She has always been a strong character but this book really showed how multifaceted and much like a Swiss Army knife she is. No one is a match for her once she sets her mind to it.

Oh, and the teasing that’s done with the ever present, will they won’t they, question that lingers between Cap and Vega is very, very effective.

It’s a lot of fun to read!

This book is out now and ready for you to pick up.

Thanks to Netgalley and Doubleday Books for the advanced copy!

HIDEOUT….⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Unfortunately my enthusiasm for this series has lessened due to Lisa Gardiner's Frankie Elkins series, which is similar. I honestly find Vega's and Cap's relationship confusion and not very believable. I requested this book because I thought the white supremacist gang would be interesting, but they didn't play much of a part in the story. I did like the end of the book.

Louisa Luna has done it again! The Alice Vega detective series is outstanding. In Hideout Vega is on the search for a missing person that leads her to a network of white supremacists. The mystery is interesting how it plays out. If you haven't read any of the Alice Vega series before, it is entirely possible to read this as a standalone. Highly recommended to mystery lovers.

An interesting read, not an absolute favorite, was not an “I can’t put this down” but drawn in enough to finish. I’ll have to read more of this author. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for this ARC opportunity!

An enjoyable read with a clever plot. I really like the characters and look forward to the next installment
Many thanks to Doubleday and to NetGalley providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Mondays are for gritty mysteries and the badass women who solve them.

In HIDEOUT, Louisa Luna is back with her third Alice Vega novel, and if you are an anxious person who likes the thriller genre but can’t stand to be unrelentingly tense for the length of an entire novel (me too)—Luna threads that needle exquisitely.

Vega is a self-contained, occasionally reckless PI who has an uncanny knack for finding people. After solving a notorious child abduction case she’s gained a rep, and the freedom to be choosy about her cases. What she has not gained: inner peace, interpersonal skills, the ability to sleep at night. Now she’s taken on the case of a college football player who hasn’t been seen since he ran off the field 30 years ago, and the trail will lead her to some of the darkest places in rural America.

The first book in this series I read because @bitchesgottaeat posted about it, and her recs are all hits no misses. If you are a fan of tense Americana, a mystery series with good politics, women who know their minds, dads and daughters, and vigilante justice meted out on violent racists, you can snag HIDEOUT from your library or bookstore shelves now.

Thanks @doubledaybooks for the e-galley of this one!

Love Alice Vega and her way of thinking and solving missing person cases. This novel, #hideout is as good as The James and I really like that you can read it without having read the other books in the series-each one is perfectly wonderful on their own. Thanks to #netgalley and the publisher for this copy, the review is my own.

I said it before and I will say it again, Alice Vega is my hero and I hope Louisa Luna will never stop writing her! Hideout is the third installment in the Vega series, and just like before Vega is still kicking ass and taking names. I did a reread of the other two books of the series before I started just so they would be fresh in my mind, and even though you don't really have to read these in order, I still recommend doing so. There is such a great buildup of Vega and Cap's working relationship, and I have spent every book so far dying for them to have a romantic relationship as well. I thought Luna took Hideout in an interesting direction this time around, and it was a little odd how heavy it was on the white supremacist aspect as opposed to finding Zeb. You do get a remedy for this, but I wasn't the biggest fan of the route used to get there.

It was also a bummer for me that Vega and Cap don't work together on this case like they usually do, and I really hope the next book will have them back in the same place at the same time. One thing I do have to point out since I am obsessed with audiobooks, is the fact that the same narrator has narrated all 3 books thus far. Tavia Gilbert really nails Vega as a character, and I can't imagine anyone else being a better narrator for this series. The pacing to me overall is medium, and there was a great build up to the wild and crazy ending. I spent the book just waiting for Vega's badassery to come out and I was not disappointed. Because of this, I wouldn't rate the book any lower, but I am really hoping for another blow-my-mind, nail-biting ride for whatever comes next in this series.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Hideout by Louisa Luna
Alice Vega is a strange protagonist. She appears to have issues with interpersonal relations. She is a PI hired to find Zeb Williams, an athlete of dubious distinctions. The search leads to racism, murder and abuse.
Vega has a relationship with Cap which could have used some backstory. Cap and his daughter have a relationship which seems to have the daughter as the more responsible of the pair.
Vega’s connection to reality is tenuous at best. She has impulsive uses of violence and there doesn’t appear to be any lasting consequences to her impulsive behavior.
The book was interesting with a complex plot, I enjoyed it.