Love Me to Death (Lucy Kincaid, #1) in 2-3-4 Challenge

Jun 09, 2020 Jonetta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: group-read, romantic-suspense, author-of-the-week, 2020-beat-the-backlist-challenge, 2020-audiobook-challenge, 5000-2020, 2020-library-love, nc-br-digital-library, 2020-in-2020

Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was abducted and brutally assaulted by a sexual predator who operated an entire enterprise. She worked hard at her recovery and with her family’s help is now well adjusted and has set her sights on a career with the FBI. In the meantime, Lucy is volunteering at a victims rights organization called Women and Children First (WCF) where she engages online with known paroled sex offenders and leads them to recapture. When one of her targets ends up suspiciously murdered, Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was abducted and brutally assaulted by a sexual predator who operated an entire enterprise. She worked hard at her recovery and with her family’s help is now well adjusted and has set her sights on a career with the FBI. In the meantime, Lucy is volunteering at a victims rights organization called Women and Children First (WCF) where she engages online with known paroled sex offenders and leads them to recapture. When one of her targets ends up suspiciously murdered, she discovers after some probing that others she’s engaged with have also later turned up dead.

Since brother Patrick is out of town, Sean Rogan, his partner at Rogan Caruso Kincaid, comes to assist her in his stead. With the FBI’s Noah Armstrong leading the investigation, Lucy becomes an unwilling participant when she comes under suspicion. And, it soon becomes clear that someone is stalking her and may be connected to the investigation.

I am really glad our group reading this series together decided to first read the preceding trilogies that set up not only Lucy’s tragic past but others in the Kincaid family. Having that insight about them made this a much more layered story. There are a lot of angles and possible suspects, including Lucy’s stalker and I had to pay close attention to keep the clues assembled. I was quickly drawn in and immersed in the mystery and lives of the characters.

I opted to listen to the series and enjoyed the narrator’s performance of this story, even though I had to increase the speed setting. There are a lot of characters and she was able to distinguish them effectively. The mystery itself was a little gnarly and, considering it involved sexual predators, quite loathsome. I enjoyed the developing relationship between Sean and Lucy, as well as her realistic portrayal of a young woman who is forced to relive the trauma she worked so hard to overcome. It was interesting on many levels and a strong start to the series.

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Jun 19, 2020 Robin rated it really liked it

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Six years after her kidnapping and rape, Lucy Kincaid has vowed to not let the incident ruin her life. Volunteering with a victim's rights group, Lucy uses the web to entice sex offenders into breaking their parole, allowing them to be re-arrested. But when one of these sex offenders is murdered, the FBI wants to talk to Lucy.

With her brother, Patrick, out of town, Lucy joins forces with his partner Seth Rogan to clear her name and discover who killed this predator. What they discover is many of ...more

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Jun 22, 2020 Melissa rated it really liked it

Lucy Kincaid works for a victim’s right group by going undercover on the internet to catch sex offenders. When her account gets hacked and the offenders she has lured into meeting her turn up dead, Lucy teams up with Seth Rogan and finds the murders are linked to a vigilante group.

This book was a good start to the Lucy Kincaid series. Since I have already read the previous books by this author I knew who most of the characters were and Lucy’s back story. I highly recommend reading those trilogie ...more

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Jun 12, 2020 Anita rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, romantic-supense, kindle-libby-city

This is the first book of the Lucy Kincaid Series. It reviews what happened to Lucy and that event changed her life six years ago. I liked this book and I wasn't expecting to. Human trafficking and sex offenders are not my favorite for the baddies and the stories that are written around them. This story has no graphic scenes, it deals with a vigilante group going after the ones who were paroled or got off lightly. It's an interwoven story with several different strands and keeps you guessing to ...more

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