This Chick Read: Grave Secrets by Skye Jordan

Grave Secrets is the first novel in the romantic suspense Manhunters series. The Manhunters are a group of ex military warriors who investigate undercover on behalf of the government (or sometimes not). Ian arrives in Hazard County to investigate the suspicious death of one of their agents and comes to the aid of Savannah. She’s been separated from her husband for three years and with the divorce final, is trying to get out from under his controlling influence as Sheriff. Sparks fly immediately between Ian and Savannah and his undercover job starts to get personal.

It’s hard for me to hear the name Hazard County and not think of the Dukes of Hazard, especially when there’s a jerk sheriff involved. However, the mystery that surrounds the death of Ian’s fellow investigator quickly removes that campy show from my mind. These characters were not caricatures but well developed with a lot of depth. I easily got lost in the interaction between Ian, Savannah and her son and the action involved in the story line.

I usually have a hard time reading stories where the female lead is a victim, so I’ll give props to Skye Jordan for creating a character that was kind of a victim, but who was sassy and trying to get out of her circumstances. She didn’t use Ian for his obvious brawn, and their relationship felt stronger for he trying to help her out of her circumstances by using their brains rather than shooting themselves out of a corner as most other heroes would have done. Not to say there wasn’t action, because there was! It seemed to work within the plot instead of the plot working for the action, if that makes sense.

If you like romantic suspense novels then I think you should give Grave Secrets a try. It’s the first in the series, so you can choose if you’d like to move forward with the other characters introduced in this novel. I liked them, so I’m choosing to, as soon as the author releases the next book! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Opinions from around the Blogosphere

“Grave Secrets draws you in from the first page, when Zane’s first surveillance assignment for his new company nearly goes very, very badly. The reader immediately needs to know the answers to a whole bunch of questions…” Becky on books…and Quilts

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3 thoughts on “This Chick Read: Grave Secrets by Skye Jordan”

  1. Ok…I wrote today about female leads, so your part about female leads as victims is making me think…..that’s a whole train of thought I hadn’t thought about

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    1. It’s my least favorite trait in a heroine. I hate it when they are victims. It’s almost a guarantee that I’ll dislike a book if she doesn’t have another redeeming quality or turn herself around. In this case she does. Whew!

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      1. I’m going to think about this. I think I tend to not read books where women are victims of crime or such, but maybe victims in another sense. I’m going to think about this

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