Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it’s personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes.
Detective Jack O’Reilly isn’t ready to return to his homicide duties, after losing his wife to a drunk driver. He’s on the downside of his career, and bent on revenge, when he’s assigned as Brinna’s partner. While on patrol, Jack struggles between his quest for personal justice and his responsibility to those around him, especially his partner.
Skeptical of Jack’s motives, Brinna isn’t sure she can rely on her new partner, whose reckless abandon endangers the safety of those around him. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna twenty years earlier, Brinna and Jack must cast aside previous judgments and combine efforts to catch the kidnapper, and finally allow Brinna the peace stolen from her as a child.
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Summary
Overall Critical Pursuit is very well written by veteran police officer Janice Cantore and contains amazing detail in police work and procedure that gives the book a feel of authenticity. The main characters are real people dealing with real issues. The book grabs your attention in the first chapter when you learn that Brinna was abducted as a child and found by Milo and his K9 dog. Brinna grows up to become a K9 police officer and has a mission/obsession to find abducted children aka Kid Crusader. As a
result of a shooting she is partnered with Jack who is broken after losing his wife to a drunk driver. Both Brinna and Jack have difficult personal issues to deal with and are both struggling to understand why good things happen to bad people if there is a God, which makes this a great book for a book club discussion. The author has an amazing ability to intricately weave the various characters together. The secondary characters were real and natural, and complimented the main characters and the
storyline well. Maggie was a great best friend and I hope she gets her own book. Maggie lets you know that Jacks is a hunk. I had several favorite scenes but I will
only share this onewhen Brinna challenges Jack that the abducted kids are just as important to their parents as his wife was to him. You feel the ahha moment happening.
Critical Pursuit is full of action, suspense, and drama while still being a clean story. I did not mention romance, there is no romance in this book. We can only hope
for that in a sequel. The author refrained from using foul language and giving graphic descriptions of what happened to the abducted children to keep the book from
being disturbing.
Violence Children are abducted past and present. The author refrains from using graphic detail to describe what happens but gives enough info
Language
Sexual This is not a romance book.
Drug & Alcohol One of the guys they pursue is hyped up on drugs but I don't consider that to count.