Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Release Date: March 15, 2022
Publisher: Prairie Wind Publishing
Source: Library
Genre: Mystery / Suspense
IT BEGAN AS AN ORDINARY SEARCH.
K9 handler,
Ryder Creed and his scent dog, Grace, return to Nebraska to join FBI
Agent Maggie O'Dell on the same task force that helped rescue his sister
Brodie a year ago. But their job is interrupted when a rural Postal
carrier finds a black plastic bag discarded in a grassy roadside ditch.
What's inside is shocking to even these seasoned investigators.
TRUST NO ONE.
Just
that morning a young woman has gone missing. Is her disappearance
connected? Did she run away? Or was she taken? And is it only a matter
of time before she ends up in a roadside ditch?
Ryder agrees to
search for her, but an early snowstorm threatens to replace the warm
fall temperatures. His scent dog, Grace has never worked in cold, snowy
conditions.
THEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG.
The snow blurs the
landscape and grinds life to a halt. As Maggie O'Dell searches for
answers about the victim, she uncovers a cold-blooded, ruthless killer
who has murdered before. By the time Maggie realizes no one has heard
from or seen Ryder since before the snow began to fall, she fears he and
Grace may have walked into the killer's path.
Fallen Creed is the Seventh installment in author Alex Kava's Ryder Creed series. This book story once again returns to Nebraska where our main characters are trying to take down a sex trafficking operation, only to put one of the characters life in jeopardy when they get caught up in a dangerous game.
Key Characters: Ryder Creed, ex-marine turned K9 rescue dog trainer who along with Hannah Washington, opened K9 Crimescents in the Florida panhandle. Ryder is never far from his favorite dog, Grace, a Jack Russell Terrier who has preternatural abilities. Ryder is also recovering from events in the previous novel. FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell returns, and at this point, she's pretty much became a series regular. I think we finally get our answers to whether Maggie and Ryder are going to be romantically connected or not.
Brodie Creed is still dealing with her PTSD after being kidnapped, and kept like an animal, but she's trying hard to fit into Ryder's business and even has her dog and cat she takes everywhere. Jason Seaver is another handler who works for Ryder and Hannah. He and Brodie travel from Florida to Nebraska when things go badly for Ryder and Grace. Libby Holmes is a mystery girl who has lots of secrets. She's on the run from a man known as David Ruben who is the worst kind of villain. He uses women, and then tosses them away and he has a beef with Libby.
The Story: K9 handler, Ryder Creed and his scent dog, Grace, travel from their home base in Florida to Nebraska to pay back a favor to Special Investigator Tommy Pakula. FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell is also there working on human trafficking that helped rescue Ryder's sister Brodie a year ago. But their job is interrupted when a rural Postal carrier finds a black plastic bag discarded in a grassy roadside ditch. What's inside is shocking to even these seasoned investigators. While working one case, they begin to look for a missing girl who has been staying with the local sheriff and his wife. All in the middle of a big snowstorm. Ryder and Grace soon find themselves badly hurt, and missing which forces Maggie, Jason, Brodie and their support to search for Ryder before it's too late.
Thoughts: I have read this series from the beginning. I have read all of Maggie's books from the beginning. I don't think that I have read a series where the author puts her main characters in trouble for no reason whatsoever. This book hits on an important topic; human trafficking. The villain is a bad dude, and the girls he kidnaps fall into the category of being victims of Stockholm syndrome. These girls will do anything to impress him, which leads to doing sickening things, which unfortunately, ends up with Ryder getting caught in the crossfire. One of the girls, Libby Holmes, tried to escape, only to encounter Ryder and Grace. Libby perhaps was manipulated, but I think that she made her own bed and now should pay for her actions. I think the author has finally made her choice when it comes to making Ryder and Maggie a couple. I hope so. I also think that Brodie is going to grow even more if and when this series progresses.
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