‘The Broken Ones’ by Carla Kovach is the eighth book in the Detective Gina Harte series. It is easily read as a standalone, but Gina is one of those women that you will really connect and empathise with if you read them chronologically, that is only my opinion. This cover is absolutely amazing, if I wasn’t already Gina Harte obsessed this would make me want to read it as well. This book is written in the third person which I really enjoy as you get the bigger picture and get more overview. You can also get to know the characters better.
We meet Amber, a university student who is getting ready to go out to meet a guy from a dating site. She could never imagine the outcome, even if she tried.
DI Gina Harte takes the call when Amber doesn’t arrive back, as she is taking details she gets a notification of a body being found. It becomes apparent that Amber definitely won’t get back home. Gina is on the investigation but is unable to discover anything that happened after Amber went to catch her bus. No one can say a bad word against Amber, there are no witnesses, nothing. There ARE secrets though and when another student goes missing Gina realises she has a mammoth task. One in which she is up against a killer and she is on her own with no one willing to come forward to help. Will she manage to beat the clock in the race to stop more deaths?
I have a few Go-To authors and Carla Kovach has been on my list since before the first Gina Harte book. She writes an excellently plotted and highly entertaining story. Her characters are so real to me now. I always love coming back to see what Gina is up to, she feels like a friend! Right from book number one I have connected with her, she has had her ups and downs of which we witness a few in this instalment.
A brilliant read, again from Carla Kovach and I am just so glad the series is going from strength to strength! I cannot wait for the next outing with Gina, I really do miss her in between books, Carla really can’t write fast enough for me!
Thanks so much to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book.
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