If I Run {Litfuse Review}

If I Run

A Litfuse book Review

 

 

About the book:

If I Run (Zondervan, February 2016)

Casey knows the truth. But it won’t set her free.

Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they have failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.

But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up. Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run?

Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices. The girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet.

Terri Blackstock has sold over seven million books worldwide and is a New York Times bestselling author. She is the award-winning author of Intervention,Vicious Cycle, and Downfall, as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, and the Restoration Series.

Connect with Terri: website, Twitter, Facebook

 

My Thoughts:

 

I love Terri Blackstock as an author and have read several of her works. I was excited to be receiving a copy of her newest book If I Run to read and review.  I was not disappointed.  It’s one of those books where if I didn’t have kids I would have locked myself in a room and not come out until I was done reading.  Unfortunately, I do have kids and they do require attention and food so that wasn’t what happened.  But the book did make me not want to put it down.  At all.  And I did stay up late one night finishing it.  And then I was sad.  Sad that it leaves me hanging!  Come on!  When does the next one come out?  It’s got to have a sequel coming.  You can’t just leave me on a cliff like that.  

 

Not only is it a cliffhanger, but there are several twists and turns that keep you on your toes and your mind sharp.  We start out with Casey finding her best friend dead and fleeing the scene.  She doesn’t call the cops.  Her fingerprints are on the body, her footprints in his blood.  Not only does she not notify the police but she skips town and changes her identity.  She’s a suspect.  And she’s wanted.

 

The parents of said friend hire a private investigator to search for her.  They want to know what happened and want justice for their son.  It just happens that this private investigator is the once good friend of their son, now deceased.

 

To make it more complicated we also do some research and flashbacks to Casey’s father’s apparent suicide which she never believed was a suicide.  And then we encounter a young girl who has gone missing and a family who believes she’s not a run away.  Casey breaks her own rules when she settles in their town because the grandmother has befriended her on the bus.  Our PI is close on her heels but will he catch her?  And what happens when she figures where the young girl is?  And that she’s being kept there against her will.

 

Oh my.  Like I said, twists and turns a plenty.  And it will leave you hanging.  Just a warning.  My daughter read her first cliff hanger book the other day.  She wanted me to find the next book for her.  I had to tell her that I couldn’t it wasn’t out yet.  She was not impressed because she wanted to know what happened right then and there.  I know the feeling my dear oh too well!!  If I Run qualifies as a definitely cliff hanger and you’re going to be begging for more!