Customer Reviews

Alone in the Dark (Cavanaugh Justice)

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Pretty and outgoing veterinarian Patience Cavanaugh had rules that she lived by and refused to break. Rule #1 - don't get involved with a cop. Even though most of her extended family were police officers, Patience had grown up with an emotionally distant, sometimes abusive cop for a father, and she didn't want to live like her mom had. But when she confides in loner Brady Coltrane that she was being stalked, she found herself wanting to get to know the K-9 cop much better...

Brady Coltrane was a loner. He didn't get involved. The only living being he allowed himself to deeply care about was his partner, King, a German Shepherd. But when Patience tells him that she's being stalked, he agrees to help her so her family won't get involved with the mess. She thinks the stalker is harmless, but Brady knows better than that. He knows how violence can destroy lives. As Brady gets to know Patience a bit better, he feels the walls he constructed around his heart begin to crumble. He thinks the noble thing to do is to walk away from Patience, but how can he do that with her stalker on the loose?

This book really deserves 4.5 stars. It was shorter than it may first appear (the font was big and the lines were spaced wide), so it was a quick read. It kept my interest from the first page all the way to the last. Brady was a great hero, I just wish that his turmoil had been fully explored; instead, he appeared rather two-dimensional for part of the book because his emotions about what had happened in his past were never fully tapped. I liked Patience and could identify with her.

The book didn't get five stars for two main reasons. One, Brady's past wasn't treated with the depth I think it deserved. Two, I knew who the stalker was as soon as he was introduced in the book. So it was very frustrating to know who the stalker is, and yet the characters in the book had absolutely no idea who he was and were going down the wrong path for much of the story. I wondered why neither of them could think a little harder and get to who was really sending Patience the flowers and spying on her. Oh well. It was still a great book, one that I'll probably read again, and I'm definitely interested in reading Patience's brother's story ("Internal Affair," by the same author).