The Swap: A Nicole Graves Mystery (Nicole Graves Mysteries Book 1)

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The Ransom is a well written and suspenseful kidnapping thriller with a little bit of romance threw in it. Now, six weeks later, Victoria Reina was still missing, and the police didn’t seem to have a clue to her whereabouts.

The Ransom, like the previous books of the Nicole Graves Mysteries by Author Nancy Boyarksy, is an exciting mystery featuring one of my favorite women sleuths, Nicole Graves. Of course, a novel set in America written by an American, can miss the spot with some readers in other English speaking countries.Nicole Graves is the best fictional sleuth to come down the pike since Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. In Liar Liar, Foreword Reviews falls once more for the "tough and likable protagonist Nicole Graves" and Midwest Book Review praises the "exquisite tension" throughout the story. The story Stephanie had mentioned was easy to find, second from the top under a photo of Nicole and Steph. His reasoning is that if we can track down deadbeats and sift through shell corporations, how much harder can this be?

Soon after, the state of California informed her that anything left after taxes would go to the state’s Victim’s Restitution Fund, which is what often happens with criminal proceeds. The idea of staying alone in a house where a man was murdered and a woman kidnapped gave Nicole pause. She dragged herself through the evening, feeling exhausted but too stressed out to imagine she’d sleep if she went to bed early. In the earlier novels we had lots of content and feeling about the life of Nicole in and out of work.I didn't find this impacted me at all with reading the Ransom, and there was sufficient explanation and detail for the Ransom to stand on it's own. But I will say that we’ve looked into the MO of the perps, and it fits the pattern of the earlier kidnappings. She is torn between allowing the police to do their job, in the form of the rather dishy detective Arnault, or trying to negotiate the ransom payment and her sister’s safe release, direct with the kidnappers, especially when she realizes all the kidnappings may be linked and she may have a handle on the perpetrators. Every month, Brad would come to me asking for fifteen thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars from his trust.

The manager wants me to let you know that—well—if you’ve come into this much money, you should put it in some kind of investment fund so it will start producing earnings.The Bequest: A Nicole Graves Mystery is Nancy Boyarsky's second novel, following The Swap, which is the first of the Nicole Graves mysteries. She introduced herself to the front-desk receptionist and was directed down a long corridor, where a secretary was stationed next to a pair of wide double doors.