Family Lies is Book #4 in The San Diego Case Files series by Karen Rose!
This romantic suspense series centers around detective Kit McKittrick, her adoptive family, and love interest Dr. Sam Reeves.
Family Lies is an explosive, gripping page-turner!
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About the Book
The fourth nerve-shattering installment of the San Diego Case Files from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose sees Kit McKittrick’s sister caught in a maelstrom of deadly family secrets.
As an infant, Kit McKittrick’s foster sister Akiko was abandoned at a firehouse. Now 32, Akiko has received an unsettling phone call from a woman who says that she knew her birth mother but refuses to divulge any details except in person. Akiko is nervous but also thrilled at the prospect of finally learning about her blood relations.
Kit has a bad feeling about this and insists on accompanying Akiko to meet the woman. Sure enough, as they stand on Mary Sherman’s doorstep, shots are fired and Kit is hit…and inside the house is a corpse: Mary Sherman herself.
Although she’s on medical leave and forbidden to work the case, Kit cannot rest. With police psychologist Sam Reeves, she undertakes a covert investigation into the mysterious Mary Sherman. Was she Akiko’s birth mother? Why did she reach out after all these years? And who had a motive to kill her?
As more bodies pile up, Kit starts to put together the pieces of the frightening puzzle that is Akiko’s birth family, and she’ll come to wonder whether some secrets should stay buried after all.
My Review
“O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott
Family Lies is an explosive mystery that’ll keep you up bleary eyed into the wee morning hours until your curiosity is fully satisfied.
The story begins with a bang and quickly entangles readers in a dangerous web of lies, intrigue, and betrayal!
There are so many mysteries! Each question answered raises even more questions.
We learn so much more about Kit’s adoptive sister Akiko, where she came from and how she ended up with the McKittricks. The McKittricks are a husband and wife who have a large home and even larger hearts and have been fostering, loving, and adopting kids for decades.
The fabric of the story is enriched by the complexities of the characters and the relationship dynamics each character has with the others. A beautifully broken melting pot of humanity.
I absolutely love the found family aspect of the storyline, not just within the McKittrick household but also at Kit’s job. Despite Kit’s stoic, prickly and standoffish persona, her fellow detectives and CO have claimed her as well.
But even though I absolutely love this book, my love for this series wasn’t always so apparent. I admit I was frustrated with the author because the first book didn’t end in an HEA, nor did the second or third books. Where is my HEA?!!?!?!?!?
I am finally understanding and enjoying this large story arc format centered around a detective as she protects people daily, helps support her adoptive parents and their foster kids while trying to discover who murdered her sister and left her in a dumpster 17 years ago.
And then here comes this do-gooder police psychologist with a heart of gold and the patience of a saint who sees to the heart of Kit, who’s claimed her quietly and who believes it’s an honor to hold the trust of the surly and guarded detective.
Throughout the series as Kit and her department protect and serve, each book has Kit coming closer to finding her sister’s murderer, and opening her heart to Sam.
I really like this format because the romance is not instalove and theirs is a slow courtship where trust can be earned, appreciated, and given space for love to blossom.
Family Lies is a gripping read! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and I couldn’t read this book fast enough! I devoured the pages and had to restrain myself from skipping ahead! I could not put this book down. And definitely do not sleep on the epilogue!
I highly recommend the entire series!
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About the Author
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Karen Rose is the award-winning, #1 international bestselling author of over twenty-five novels, including the bestselling Baltimore and Cincinnati series. She has been translated into twenty-three languages and her books have placed on the New York Times, the Sunday Times (UK), and Germany’s der Spiegel bestseller lists. Learn more at karenrosebooks.com
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