Steph Broadribb – Deep Dark Night

A massive thank you to Orendo Books and Anne Cater for allowing me to be a part of the blog tour of Deep Dark Night by Steph Broadribb, which is the newest release in her Lori Anderson bounty hunter series. This is number 4 and, as I have found, it is easy to read on it’s own, but be warned: By the time you have finished you will love Lori so much you will NEED to read the previous 3!

In this book Lori and her partner find themselves in Chicago, working off the books for FBI Special Agent Munroe. The job is to entrap the head of a crime family… No mean feat then!

The majority of the story is played out within a private poker game, in a penthouse suite in one of the tallest buildings in the city. The game is in motion when the electricity suddenly goes out and it turns out to be a city wide power failure! The penthouse is now also in lockdown, Lori is stuck in the room with people who aren’t who they say they are. It brought to mind an escape room , but one that makes you realise there is no escaping this time! Lori has to use every trick in the book and her own wiles to get out of that room alive… or is it too late?!

I had my heart in my throat reading this, no wonder my blood pressure is high!! The tension and suspense I felt, especially after the lockdown, kept me on the edge of my seat racing to finish this excellent book!