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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...

First Date by Sue Watson

Title: First Date
Author: Sue Watson
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Format: Kindle
No. of Pages: 
Date of Publication: October 16, 2020

Description: She’s been waiting her whole life to meet a man like Alex. But he’s been waiting too. And once he has her, he’ll never let her go…

Hannah has done everything to make sure her life is safe and secure. A long way from her unstable childhood growing up in foster care, she’s content with her sweet, little, messy apartment and her satisfying job as a social worker. She quietly worries that, aged 36, she might never fall in love. But otherwise her life is where she wants it to be.

Until, encouraged by her best friend to join a dating app, she meets Alex. He’s irresistibly handsome. He loves the same music as her. The same food as well. They both dream of travelling the world but agree they’d be equally happy escaping to a cottage by the beach in Devon. Both of them would love to own a Labrador one day. It’s like he’s made for her. It’s like he’s too good to be true.

Hannah’s friends aren’t so sure about him. But Hannah thinks he’s perfect.

Which is good. Because Alex knows she’s perfect for him too. In fact, she’s exactly the girl he’s been looking for…

And nothing Hannah’s done to make her life safe will ever be enough.

My Thoughts: This book took me quite a long time and I am not quite sure. I remember picking it up and telling myself that I could understand why Hannah was falling for Alex after their very first date and then life got in the way and I didn't pick the book back up again until. I wish I had kept it going when I first picked it up because this was a great psychological thriller.

Hannah was a very relatable character to me. She joins a dating app and meets Alex. She quickly falls in love with him but her friends are not too sure about him. I'm sure this has happened more often then not as dating apps have become more and more popular. 

Alex's behaviors brought up a ton of red flags for me from the get go, similar to what Hannah's friends were cautioning her. It's easy to see though why Hannah was falling for Alex so quickly when he wants everything that she does.

Sue Watson weaves a very intriguing psychological thriller with the way that she develops her characters to the way that she moves the story at a quick pace. All of Hannah's co-workers are involved in her love life and that adds another element. Then there is Hannah's client that adds another twist to the story.

Rating: 4 out of 5 because of the ending. The ending just felt incomplete in the way it left Hannah's story and her clients story. I want to know what happened and you are just left trying to complete the story on your own.

Many thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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