Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan
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Released September 13, 2019
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Abducted.
Terrorized.
Imprisoned.
At nineteen-years-old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison.
Eight years later, when the body of a young woman is found chained in the basement of a vacant house, Cincinnati Police Detective Zach Copeland is instantly reminded of the crime committed against Josie Stratton. Zach was just a rookie on the perimeter of that case, but he’s never forgotten the traumatized woman with the haunted eyes.
As more information emerges, the crimes take on an even more sinister similarity. But Josie’s attacker died by suicide. Does the city have a copycat on its hands? A killer who picked up where the original perpetrator left off? Or are they facing something far more insidious?
Josie has spent the last eight years attempting to get her life back on track, but now there’s a very real chance she could be the unknown suspect’s next target. As Zach vows to keep her safe, and Josie finds herself responding to him in a way she hasn’t responded to any man in almost a decade, the investigation takes on an even more complex edge of danger.
As past and present collide, Josie and Zach are thrust toward a shocking and chilling truth. A revelation that threatens not only Josie’s life, but everything she’s been fighting so desperately to reclaim.
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Where the Blame Lies is easily one of my top reads of the year, I was engrossed in the story from the beginning needing to know who the killer was and why they acted the way that they did.
Dark.
Gritty.
Sexy.
All of my favorite things were weaved flawlessly into Where the Blame Lies. Trying to figure out who the killer was threw me for a completely loop because I was so sure I knew exactly who it was until the actual killer was revealed.
Also, the level of empathy that the killer showed for Josie was not only shocking but it brought tears to my eyes because I was relived that what I thought would happen didn’t. In fact, I was in such disbelief that I text my friend and told him that I was shook and I couldn’t believe I had it so misjudged.
With, Where the Blame Lies not being predictable and things not playing out the way I anticipated truly set this story apart from other romantic suspense that use a lot of similar plot points and character behaviors.
Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan is a must read romantic suspense novel with a serial killer and plot twists you will never see coming.
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