Finding Marie Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Page Davis / Harvest House Publishers Reviewed by Cara Putman Finding Marie is the perfect addition to a suspense lovers library. Marie Belanger is getting on a plane to return home to Maine after spending the last two years in Japan with her Navy husband. When the flight lands in San Francisco, her seatmate is murdered and Marie flees for her life. She has no idea who is after her or why. And her husband Pierre is desperate to find her before those chasing her catch her. I started this book last night and would have finished it in one sitting if I hadn't had church this morning. The book pulled me in and I loved the twists and turns that pulled me through the book. The chapters are short and made it way too easy for me to keep flipping pages into the early hours of the morning. Marie had all the markings of a naïve young woman forced to step outside any of her experiences. There are times when she makes good decisions, and other times where you have to wonder what she was thinking. But there was a depth to her that made her more than just another damsel in distress. Pierre and his friend George are kept running, always several steps behind. They begin to wonder who they can trust while they search for Marie. Because of the pacing of the book - it all happens in one week, there isn't time for deep transformations in the characters. Instead, we get to participate in their journey and the twists and turns of this fun suspense. And the book is packed with a rich array of secondary characters. Some angels in disguise to help Marie; some her family. I enjoyed this book - as evidenced by the way I tore through it. It's the perfect addition to a suspense lovers library.

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Susan Page Davis is a native of Maine and author of romantic suspense, historical romance, and children's novels. She's a mother of six, all home schooled until college, and grandmother of five. Most recently she has been writing romantic suspense for Harvest House and Love Inspired Suspense. With her daughter, Megan Elaine Davis, she writes the Blue Heron Lake cozy mystery series for Heartsong Presents: Mysteries

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Finding Marie Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Page Davis / Harvest House Publishers Reviewed by Gail Welborn Davis's pacing is intense, and her writing style is evocative and descriptive. Like many good mysteries, Finding Marie takes the reader through multiple conflicts and danger into a nightmare chase where life and death are the only choices. Choices that twenty-two-year-old Marie, wife of naval lieutenant Pierre Belanger, is unsuited for-although her husband travels on frequent covert missions, Marie is unsophisticated and naïve. She only knows not to ask questions and Pierre doesn't want to jeopardize his mission by talking. As the story begins, Marie is waiting at the Narita airport to board a plane for the United States. Her husband's tour in Japan has ended, and he plans to join her in three weeks. When Marie's plane lands in San Francisco, Marie reaches for her cell phone to call Pierre before boarding the connecting flight. When she can't find it, she searches her carry-on luggage and finds a small plastic case shaped like a pack of gum. Unfamiliar with computers except for sending e-mail messages she doesn't realize she is looking at a thumb-flash drive or does she know who slipped it into her luggage. However, having it in her possession will take her across the eastern seaboard in an attempt to outrun the Asian mafia, who are desperate to retrieve the information she carries. Add the shocking murder of her seat mate in the airport restroom, and Marie's fears and imagination go into overdrive. When scar-faced Asian men attempt to grab her in the airport, Marie knows she has to run. They intend to kill her. While Marie is on the run, Pierre and his best friend Lt. Commander George Hudson team up to find her, but they're a step behind the Asian mafia who always stay one step ahead of them. Frustrated and desperate, they call in the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS). Davis's pacing is intense, and her writing style is evocative and descriptive. The chase is suspenseful and realistic as multiple story lines unite. Marie uses imaginative disguises, city cabs, and even hitchhikes with dangerous truckers to escape, but the Asian mafia remains on her heels. An engaging romantic sub-plot and many secondary characters add to the suspense. The use of French words is distracting but not a deterrent. A constant thread of prayer is tightly woven throughout the story. Finding Marie, second in the Frasier Island series intertwines faith, honor, espionage, suspense, and courage against the backdrop of family, love, deceit and betrayal in this exciting contemporary adventure. Readers of the romance-suspense genre will enjoy this one.

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