Review – Critical Pursuit

From the Back Cover: Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it’s personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes.

Detective Jack O’Reilly isn’t ready to return to his homicide duties, after losing his wife to a drunk driver. He’s on the downside of his career, and bent on revenge, when he’s assigned as Brinna’s partner. While on patrol, Jack struggles between his quest for personal justice and his responsibility to those around him, especially his partner.

Skeptical of Jack’s motives, Brinna isn’t sure she can rely on her new partner, whose reckless abandon endangers the safety of those around him. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna twenty years earlier, Brinna and Jack must cast aside previous judgments and combine efforts to catch the kidnapper, and finally allow Brinna the peace stolen from her as a child.

For me if someone is abducted or kidnapped then they desperately need a hero to come and rescue them. Welcome Brinna Caruso and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero. These two will stop at nothing to find a missing child, Brinna has a personal fire-she was abducted as a child. Jack O’Reilly is Brinna’s new human partner and they have quite a few issues to iron out before they can really operate as a team. However they are going to have to do the ironing quickly because there is a possibility that the person who abducted Brinna is back and she has a score to settle. “Critical Pursuit” is how you define exciting! Ms. Cantore is a retired Long Beach California police officer of 22 years. She did what she now makes Brinna do and her experience shines through the pages. “Critical Pursuit” is a thriller with all kinds of excitement and danger. Janice Cantore knows how to weave a captivating story with wonderful characters that breathe. I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to the next book in this exciting series from Ms. Cantore.