Book Review - Double Cross by DiAnn Mills

4/30/2015

Genre:
Romantic Suspense
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Double Cross
An FBI: Houston Novel book 2
by DiAnn Mills


-From the back cover-
SHE PUT HIM IN PRISON.
NOW HE'S THEIR ONLY LEAD
IN A DEADLY NEW CASE.

FBI AGENT LAUREL EVERTSON'S INVESTIGATION into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to a felon she arrested on her last undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Morton Wilmington – and what she sacrificed to put him away – he is now her best lead.

Houston Police Officer Daniel Hilton dears his grandparents ma be the scammers's next targets, and he'll do anything to protect his family, including force interagency cooperation. But he's quickly drawn to Laurel's zeal and agrees to follow her lead . . . even if it means teaming up with a felon.

As the unlikely trio uncovers disturbing evidence suggesting the scam is more deadly than they imagined, Laurel and Daniel find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer. Together they must decide if they can trust Wilmington's claims of redemption, or if he's leading them straight into a double cross.  

Who can they trust?

I picked up Double Cross and a could hardly bear to put it down. DiAnn Mills had me me so drawn into the story that even when I had to put it down I was still thinking about it, still trying to figure it all, out.

DiAnn Mills knows her craft well. I usually have fairly decent instincts about characters but I had NO CLUE if Wilmington was genuine or not, sometimes he seemed so honest and I was sure he was doing the right thing and then a couple pages later he had 'GUILTY' written on his forehead in three-foot high letters. A dozen times I almost flipped to the end just to find out, but, each time I managed resist the temptation and the ending came as a bit of surprise.

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This Book received a 4 Bark rating.
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DiAnn Mills
Double Cross is a great romantic suspense story with some rather emotionally complex characters. Of those characters my favorite actually wasn't the hero or heroine, it was Abby who just happens to be Daniel's grandmother. Abby is is smart, feisty, and loves her family more than anything except God. I had to admire both Laurel and Daniel for the patience and respect they show to the elderly victims of the scam. 

I only had one small problem and that is that once again the Christian character gets romantically interested in a non-Christian. But that aside, Double Cross is a great suspense story and I can't wait to find out what DiAnn Mills has in store for readers in the next book.

Double Cross is a great story that any suspense fan will be sure to enjoy!

Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Double Cross by DiAnn Mills a 4 Bark rating.

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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (March 20, 2015)
ISBN-10: 1414389949
ISBN-13: 978-1414389943
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