Hide and Seek book review

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Hide and Seek by Mary Burton
on April 23, 2019
Pages: 344
Source: Netgalley
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She’s hunting. He’s watching.

Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago.

While investigating with local sheriff Mike Nevada, a former colleague and onetime lover, Macy discovers a link between Tobi’s case and several others that occurred around the same time as her disappearance. As Macy interviews victims and examines old cases, she uncovers a sinister picture of a stalker who graduated to sexual assault—and then murder.

Macy and Nevada race to put this monster behind bars before he can come out of hiding. But the murderer’s had years to hone his skills, and soon Macy herself becomes a target. She’s no stranger to pain and terror, but will Macy’s first profiling case be her last?

Hide and Seek is one of my favourites reads from Netgalley so far this year. I loved the story and the way everything plays into it all. The way the clues were drip fed into the actual storyline and all the way through was a really enjoyable experience. I definitely didn’t see the ending coming but then in hindsight, they all made perfect sense. The mixture of the two very different characters meant there was a good dialogue and opposite angles when looking at the whole scenario. I really appreciated the fact that there was a female who not only featured heavily in the book but was actually the driving force behind the storyline.

Hide and Seek was developed meant that the clues were well integrated and felt like a natural progression throughout the book. It kept me interested as well as keeping me on my toes. I really enjoy reading crime and thriller type books but always struggle because I figure out what is going on very early on which ruins the experience. So it’s always a great experience when I read something in the crime genre and don’t guess the ending.

The actual characters were well written and the development was really well done. Each of the people involved in Hide and Seek had a great, rounded back story. There was something that made them unique and have particular motivations. It helped build empathy for the characters and the situation that they found themselves in. It was such a great way of building the story around the characters and the things that happened. I don’t think this could have been done any better. I was really impressed withhow well this was written and how much I enjoyed the story.

I definitely think the ending was really well done, I was equally surprised but then almost expecting it. Everything made sense to me and I love it when it happens, especially in the crime genre. It’s definitely something I usually struggle with but this one hit all the marks. I was so so pleased with it. Hide and Seek for me was a great crime book, definitely, one of my favourite Netgalley reads of the year!

No surprise here but I would definitely recommend Hide and Seek. It is a well written, suspenseful novel. Something I look forward to continuing reading and finding out more about the characters.

Have you read any decent crime books? Let me know because I’m always looking for something new and exciting, especially in this genre!