The Final Act
Lisa Gray
270 pages
Thomas & Mercer
published July 1, 2024
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This is my first read by the author but it won’t be my last. The cover grabbed me and I’m so glad it lived up to my expectations.
It was a little bit of a slow burn but it read more like a fast paced book. Told in the past by the missing woman and in the present by the detectives investigating her disappearance. It was a great balance of letting the story unfold.
Weirdly it felt a little familiar but still fresh. I know that sounds contradictory but I had those feelings.
I loved the detectives investigating and would love to see more of them. They were an odd pair but were a great fit.
I flew through this one and couldn’t wait to figure out what happened. And it surprisingly caught me off guard more than once.
Whether you’re a fan of police procedurals, struggling actors or a good twisty mystery, this book is worth a read. Make sure and add this one to your summer reading list.
Thanks @thrillerbookloversthepulse and @amazonpublishing for my advanced copy.
About the book
All she wanted was to see her name in lights. Now, her disappearance has made her front-page news.
It’s been twenty years since Madison James had any kind of success in Hollywood. Now she’s disappeared and a TikTok sleuth has found her purse discarded in a Los Angeles park. The news spreads like wildfire across a nation hungry for celebrity tragedy, and the struggling actress’s mysterious disappearance quickly becomes a national obsession.
Detectives Sarah Delaney and Rob Moreno of the LAPD Missing Persons Unit take the case. But truth is a rare commodity in Tinseltown; some people will stop at nothing to get what they want and Delaney and Moreno soon find themselves mired in Hollywood’s dark underbelly with little in the way of clues.
As revelations from the past emerge, it becomes apparent there is more going on than meets the eye. With an obsessive public watching every step of the investigation, can the police find Madison before she becomes more than just missing?
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