Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Release Date: April 26, 2022
Publisher: MIRA
Source: Publisher
Genre: Mystery / Thrillers / Suspense
In this latest Quinn & Costa suspense from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, nine people board a charter sightseeing boat to take a tour of the San Juan Islands; twenty minutes later, the boat explodes. Now it’s up to the FBI Mobile Response Team to find out who committed this targeted act of domestic terrorism and why, before they strike again.
A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime—the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands.
Was the explosion an act of domestic terrorism, or was one of the dead the primary target? That is the first question Special Agent Matt Costa, Detective Kara Quinn, and the rest of the FBI team need to answer, but they have few clues and no witnesses.Accused
of putting profits before people after leaking fuel endangered an
environmentally sensitive preserve, the West End Charter company may
itself have been the target. As Matt and his team get closer to answers,
they find one of their own caught in the crosshairs of a determined
killer.
The Wrong Victim is the third installment in author Allison Brennan's Quinn and Costa series. A sunset cruise ends in tragedy when the Water Lily, a yacht operated by West End Charter and captained by retired FBI agent Neil Devereux, explodes just minutes after it leaves the harbor. There are no survivors but there are many suspects. West End Charter fleet has drawn a lot of attention from Island Protectors who are convinced that they are deliberately polluting the ocean. Devereaux has been pursuing a cold case since he retired, and he might be getting close to find a murderer.
The wife of one of the passengers backed out at the last minute. Perhaps she wanted her wealthy husband dead. There was a last-minute crew change because of personal reasons. Who was the intended victim? Or, is there something bigger on the horizon? Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime—the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands.
When the FBI's Mobile Response Team, headed by Special Agent Mathias Costa, is called to San Jan Island off the coast of Washington to investigate the explosion, the action ramps up between the townspeople, the MRT and among the members of the MRT. They've barely begun their investigation when Analyst Ryder Kim and a local deputy are nearly killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. Then another explosion makes them realize that they may be the next victims of a clever killer.
The MRT team has some issues that need to be resolved if they are to continue to be successful. Kara Quinn is an LAPD undercover cop who's cover was blown. Until things area resolved in LA, she's been seconded to the MRT. Kara has been a very successful undercover cop until things went sideways. There are those like Dr. Catherine Jones, who is still angry about the loss of her sister, who feels the need to constantly belittle and make sarcastic comments towards Kara.
Catherine's issue is that she knows Kara and Costa are having an romantic entanglement that could jeopardize the teams future and she'd do anything to protect Costa from losing his job. Jones thinks Kara might be a borderline psychopath. She knows their styles of investigating are very different. The friction pulls at Matt who has to mediate between them. Putting aside that Kara is a fantastic investigator, which she has shown in the past two installments, thus why Matt wanted her on his team, Catherine would be better off not being part of this team any longer.
In the end, the friction between Catherine and Kara really grated on my nerves. Kara doesn't do herself any favors by constantly thinking that she doesn't need the team, also went against her in my opinion. I do ask that this romance between Kara and Quinn end. I can see Catherine's point of review. Workplace romances could serious spell doom for the MRT.
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