Title: Face of
Betrayal
Author: Lis Wiehl with April Henry
Pages: 310
Year: 2008
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Face
of Betrayal is the first in a series entitled, Triple Threat. The setting is modern day Portland,
Oregon. The genre is
mystery/suspense. The triple threat
referred to previously is a friendship among three women…a reporter, a
prosecuting attorney, and an FBI agent.
All three are women whose goal is to see justice done.
Warning: There is some sexual non-explicit scenes in this book.
Allison
is a married attorney and a Christian who has just discovered she is pregnant
with her first child. She asks to be
assigned to the Katie Converse case.
Katie is a 17-year-old girl who is home on Christmas break from
Washington DC where is a page for a senator from Oregon. This senator has taken a special interest in
Katie and has agreed to mentor her.
Katie if very interested in politics and wants to make this her
career. However, something has happened
to Katie. She leaves one afternoon to
walk her sister’s dog and never returns.
Did someone kidnap her? Why is
there no ransom request? Has she run
away? Her blog indicates she was
depressed, so did she perhaps kill herself?
Allison searches for legal means to question the senator to find out
what he knows. Did he kill Katie?
Cassidy
is a single reporter who is very concerned with her image. She is constantly on the lookout for a “big”
story that could be the break she has been looking for in her career to
catapult her in the ratings and thus a bigger market. Can the Katie Converse story do this for
her? She will do just about anything to
get her story. Cassidy flits from one
fad to the next as far as her “faith”.
She tries the “in” thing, and when it is “out”, she moves on to
something else. She has also become
involved in a personal relationship with an abusive man. Can she see that his behavior toward her is
abusive?
Nicole
is a single mom of one daughter and an FBI agent. As an African American female she has faced
prejudice in the past, but is her new team leader different? She has been assigned as the liaison between
Katie’s parents and law enforcement. She
actively works the case, looking for clues to try to solve the case. Nicole feels she has been let down by God in
the past when she needed Him most, and now she thinks she can handle everything
on her own. She can readily identify
with Katie’s parents and their anxiety over their daughter. Can Nicole discover what happened to
Katie? Will the guilty party be brought
to justice?
The
short chapters make the story fly by.
There is plenty of action and interaction between the characters with a
few surprises included. I very much
enjoyed the story. However, there was
reference to a sexual device, another where losing one’s virginity was
discussed, and finally a scene of two unmarried, naked adults waking up in bed
together. My rating is low due to this
content. I feel the author could have
told her story without this content included.
They didn’t add anything to the overall plot. As this is the first book in the series,
perhaps future books leave this type of thing out. I plan to read the next book in this series and
will write a review of it, so check back for an update.
My
rating is 2.5 stars due to the sexual content.
Note: I received a
complimentary copy for an honest review of this book. The opinions shared in this review are solely
my responsibility. Other reviews can be
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