Cold Case Murder (Without a Trace, Book 3)

by Shirlee McCoy

2009

Status

Available

Publication

Steeple Hill (2009), 224 pages

Description

Her hometown of Loomis, Louisiana, holds no charm for Jodie Gilmore. Why be reminded of her mother's abandonment? Then the novice FBI agent is assigned to a missing person's case, and refusal isn't an option. Her coworkers are counting on her. Surely the tight-lipped locals will talk to one of their own. Or will they? A decades-old double homicide is discovered, and Harrison Cahill, the handsome forensic anthropologist on the case, thinks Jodie knows more than she's saying. But speaking freely can be deadly in Loomis....

User reviews

LibraryThing member JenniferRobb

This book is more suspense than romance, though Jodie and Harrison do decide they "love" each other by the end of the book. I was glad to see that Jodie voiced one of my concerns with this genre which is that usually the characters have only known each other a short time before they're engaged or

married to each other. Despite her voicing that though, it seems like shortly after that, they're both talking about having an Autumn wedding (so probably within a year).

Oddly, the case that brings Jodie back to her hometown is not solved (at least not by the end of the book)--though it does sound like they plan to keep working it from New Orleans as best they can--at least until some new evidence shows up. We also don't see the solving of who is behind the notes being left for the mothers nominated in the pageant. Instead, the case that is solved ends up being what happened 25 years ago when Mary Sampson was murdered and Jodie's mother disappeared--and also when Vera's husband disappeared.

I guessed right on some plot points, but didn't guess correctly who had murdered Mary Sampson.

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