Format: Kindle, 382 pages
Release Date: April 27, 2021
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Source: Publisher
Genre: Mystery / Suspense / Thriller
This second entry in USA Today bestselling
author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the
past is best left forgotten.
As veteran detectives of the
Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it
all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up
dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work.
But
this is no ordinary case. Devlin and Falco quickly link the murdered
DDA to one of their own: former BPD detective Sadie Cross. But Sadie’s
fractured memory is yet another puzzle to decipher, as she only recalls
bits and pieces of her violent past…a past that may hold clues to the
motive behind the murders.
As the group slowly begins to unearth
the truth, they soon discover that the more secrets are revealed, the
more fatal the consequences.
Gone Too Far, by Debra Webb, is the second installment in the authors Devlin & Falco series. This series is set to the backdrop of Birmingham, Alabama. Key Characters: Major Investigations Division Detective Kerri Devlin and Detective Luke Falco, former BPD detective and now private investigator Sadie Cross, and Devlin's daughter Kerri. I would like to start out by saying this story is very twisted. Devlin and Falco are given the case of two men murdered in a Tobacco shop. One of the men is the new Deputy District Attorney who may have gotten involved in something dangerous.
Meanwhile, 14-year-old Tori finds herself at the center of a bizarre incident when a bully at her school falls down a flight of stairs and ends up dead. Tori becomes a prime suspect because of the machinations of a new student who seems to have the unwavering ability to push innocent girls to do something they never even dreamed of. To make matters worse, not only do the cops make her feel as though she is guilty, and her fellow students think she's guilty, but she's still mourning the loss of her cousin and best friend from the previous installment.
As this is all happening, Sadie's background is finally revealed after it is revealed that she had contact with the dead ADA. Once upon a time, Sadie went undercover to infiltrate the Osorio Mexican drug cartel. She got in so deep, that she fell in love with the son of the Cartel's leader and vanished. Unfortunately for Sadie, she has huge gaps in her memory after ‘losing’ a period of months from her life before being abandoned, injured and emaciated under a railway bridge. She is still trying to work out what exactly happened to her but agrees to help the detectives through her contacts. Now, Sadie has a chance to find out what happened to her thanks Devlin and Falco looking at curious connections to her past.
While Devlin is being forced to the sidelines because of her daughter being investigated by her fellow detectives, it seems things have changed between Devlin and Falco. The duo have gone from Devlin thinking new partner, Falco, will never work out because of their extreme differences to the duo being best friends, excellent work partners and spending the off time together as a little platonic family for Devlin's daughter, Tori. Things are also better between Tori and her mother since last years debacle of wanting to be with her father who has stared a new family.
The
author does a good job with the mystery and tying the story together
as in fitting pieces of a puzzle together with some surprise components. The story once again asks the question who has all the power and money and who is connected to the Mexican cartel's who are sending dangerous drugs into the country and causing thousands of deaths every year. The time spent with Sadie was worthwhile because now that she know what happened to her, she can move on with her life and become part of her unique relationship with Devlin and Falco.
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