Format: Mass Market, 352 pages
Release Date: November 29, 2022
Publisher: Zebra
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
What do you do when a sociopath loves you? Rising star FBI profiler Laurel Snow is about to find out …
Calling
Laurel Snow’s relationship with her newly discovered half-sister
challenging is an understatement. Not only does Laurel suspect Abigail
is behind the mysterious disappearance of their father, but her erratic
behavior also makes life in Laurel’s small hometown interesting, to say
the least. Still, when Abigail claims someone is now out to kill her,
Laurel’s instinct to protect her sister goes into overdrive. Then things
get even more dicey as dead bodies start turning up in the icy waters
of the Sauk River and there’s only one connection among them: Abigail . .
.
Having Fish and Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers bringing in those
bodies with his dive team only complicates matters. Huck is as
impulsive and fiery as Laurel is coolly analytical, which makes their
alliance risky at best. But standing up to such a demonically brilliant
killer is going to take all the help Laurel can get. Because Laurel’s
attempt to save her troubled sister’s life might cost her own . . .
You Can Hide, by author Rebecca Zanetti, is the second book in the authors Laurel Snow series. This series is being compared to The Blacklist meets The Profiler meets Justified. The series is set against the atmospheric backdrop of rural Pacific Northwest. If features FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow as she strives to navigate her complicated family life when her newly discovered sociopathic half-sister Abigail becomes the target of a dangerous killer.
It begins with a female victim who apparently was hiding from her stalker, only to be found, and murdered in the most horrific manner. Victim was well armed, and well stocked, but somehow her killer discovered where she was. Then comes Laurel's half sister Abigail Crane who claims that she is being stalked and her proof is the black dahlia flowers left behind. Then things get even more dicey as dead bodies of some very smart and important women start turning up and there’s only one connection among them: Abigail.
Abigail feels as though Laurel owes her for killing her brother, and saving Laurel's life. With the murder case just beginning, Laurel has no time for the machinations of her half-sister, but Abigail refuses to be ignored, and everywhere Laurel looks for the murderer, Abigail turns up as a link. Abigail is a malignant narcissist, a sociopath, and maybe even a psychopath. She's always around even when she's not supposed to know what is happening to the women turning up dead.
Laurel's reputation has taken a positive move forward in the last few months. She's solved the Finewood murders, she helped wrap up another case back in the DC area, and she's hopeful that she will be in charge of a new FBI Violent Crimes Unit that was supposed to be located in her hometown which would make things easier, especially with her relationship with Captain Huck Rivers from Fish and Wildlife getting interesting.
Huck is a former sniper with PTSD who is always accompanied by his loyal work/support dog Aeneas. He also has to deal with a former lover making his life hard thus making Laurel's job of finding a serial killer harder. Huck and Laurel’s relationship has been simmering for awhile now. They both think they can’t get attached because it is against their nature. The part of this story that really got my attention, is that these serial killers only began after Laurel moved back to her hometown to investigate a possible serial killer.
We know she's not a killer, but it's apparently become a cat and mouse game between sisters to see who blinks first and who can be the better sociopath. The sisters are mirror images of the other right down to the different color eyes, and the fact that Laurel has multiple doctorates in various areas of study which pushes Abigail's buttons. Abigail’s fixation with Laurel increases and grows more deadly with each story and I fear for the safety of anyone who Laurel knows, and loves.
The ending of this book pretty much ensures that if you've read the first two installments, you will definitely be eager to read the next one.
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