Tough as Steele By Susan Sleeman

Summary

From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Tough as Steele
Book Author: Susan Sleeman
What do you like about this book:
3.5 stars
"We have the old lady. We'll call to arrange a drop . . . . Call in the cops and she dies. Try to locate her and she dies."

"Oh. No. Mimi had been taken." On the evening of her eightieth birthday party no less. The octogenarian millionaire owned a wide expanse of businesses and corporations and Steele Guardians, a family owned security firm, was rehearsing for the contract. . . . . except, the curtain might have already dropped on that possibility unless Londyn Steele could put her investigative skills as a Portland Police Bureau detective into high gear. There was only one roadblock, and he was quite formidable; Detective Nate Ryder, Washington County who was convinced that Londyn was encroaching on his jurisdiction.

If you have ever watched an episode of The First 48, then you have an inkling of an idea about how this story might go down. Fast and furious is putting it mildly, and yet there are snippets of time when Nate and Londyn slow down long enough to admit their nearly immediate attraction, only to squash it, or perhaps just postpone it? God may have placed them together in His perfect timing, not theirs.

" . .. but the thing I've learned over the years is that God doesn't give us what we want. He gives us what we need. Sometimes it's the same thing, but often it's not. Then we have to adjust . . . "

The clock is ticking; so few clues, multiple dead-ends, an unnerving number of dead bodies, unlikely suspects, and an ending to a story that the two never realized was being written; theirs! Such a great start to this series!