Suspect & Payback

by Jasmine Cresswell

These two paperbacks finish the trilogy began in "Missing", about the family of Ron Raven, a bigamist who in the first novel has been presumeably killed with a mystery woman in a hotel room. The second installment features his legitimate son Liam Raven. A former criminal lawyer who switched to divorce law when he was used and discarded by a woman he defended in a murder charge, Liam gets a phone call out of the blue by the mayor's wife. She is being questioned in the murder of her husband and insists he talks to her even if he won't accept her case.

She lays quite a bombshell on him and soon both of them are trying to find the real killer and keep her out of jail. The final novel features Ron Raven's illegitimate daughter with his Chicago wife. This book delves deeper into the mystery of whether Ron Raven is dead, when a former lover of Kate's insists he's seen him in a restaurant. When a P.I. they hire is mugged and killed while out searching for her father, soon they are investigating further and Kate's life is threatened. I couldn't help but be disappointed in the ending but I did enjoy the ride to the end.