Blood Moon by Sandra Brown

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Blood Moon

Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sexy thriller where an unruly detective and an ambitious tv show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them.

Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation.

Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years researching, fact checking, and editing dozens of episodes, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days’ time.

At the risk of their jobs and lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I’ve read Overkill and Thick as Thieves and one more that I did not review by Sandra Brown. I like her books- they have a formula (she’s similar to Susan Mallery in that she knows what works in writing and sticks to the formula)

Blood Moon is something else. It’s a dive into some things about people in society that can give you the ick in behavior combined with a mystery.

What I liked:

I absolutely love this cover. SO eye-catching!

The chemistry between John and Beth. It is HOT.

The mystery behind why these girls are missing. The true crime angle really worked for me.

Bottom line: It was a good read- filled with sexual tension, a good mystery, a true crime angle, and characters that kept me entertained.

*This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*