Jan 22, 2020

Review: Tell Me Lies By Ed James Detective Max Carter Series Book 1 #BookonTour #Bookouture #NetGalley


Fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci will be gripped by this heart-racing FBI thriller from bestselling author Ed James.

Megan Holliday opens her eyes and finds herself slumped on her doorstep. The last thing she remembers is being in the car with her two kids. She sees a handwritten note on her lap – Don’t call the police. It’s then that she realises her car is missing, and her children are gone…

Leading the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team, FBI agent Max Carter will stop at nothing to find children taken from their families. After all, he was once one of those taken children, so he knows exactly what’s at stake. When he hears that a young senator’s two children have been abducted and their mother left for dead, he races to the Holliday family home in Washington State.



Facing a wall of police cruisers and blacked-out SUVs, Carter quickly uncovers the facts. Megan Holliday was ambushed by a man with a gun as she returned home from taking her kids out for ice cream. Bound and drugged, the attacker left her unconscious on the doorstep with the sinister note on her lap.

As Senator Christopher Holliday walks through the halls of the US Federal Building in Seattle, his phone beeps with an alert. Frustrated by the interruption, he takes a cursory glance and is horrified by the image on the screen – his two children, Brandon and Avery, unconscious. The message he gets simply reads Meet me or they die.

When Agent Carter tries to make contact with the busy senator, it seems the politician has gone missing, fleeing from the Federal Building and abandoning his distraught wife. If Carter knows one thing, it’s that Holliday has something to hide. And he just became Carter’s prime suspect.

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The bestselling DI Simon Fenchurch series is set in East London and published by Thomas & Mercer.

The self-published Scott Cullen series of Scottish police procedurals features a young Edinburgh Detective Constable investigating crimes from the bottom rung of the career ladder he's desperate to climb. The first book, "Ghost in the Machine", has been downloaded over 400,000 times, hitting both the Amazon UK & US top five.

The Craig Hunter books is a sister series to the Cullen novels, with a PTSD-suffering ex-squaddie now working as a cop investigating sexual abuse cases. With lots of slapstick and banter.

Ed lives in East Lothian, Scotland and writes full-time, but used to work in IT project management, where he filled his weekly commute to London by literally writing on planes, trains and automobiles.

Tell Me Lies 
By Ed James
Review by Heidi Lynn's Book Review

First, I want to thank Ed James, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

Ed James wastes no time stirring up drama and upsetting me deeply for the bulling that is taking place in Tell Me Lies. My heart immediately went out to the kid they were calling towelhead who were they were teasing him his father. That scene was written incredibly well but hard to swallow at times. I wanted to jump into the book and defend the kid.

My emotions went from wanting to stand up to that bully to shock at what happened next! This is a book that will be on the edge of your seat good!! For some reason I love books that have abductions in them and the case that is built around them.

One thing that stands out and needs to be commended on his attention to detail and description in each scene he wrote.

This book is great for those who enjoy abduction stories, mystery, thrillers, and political stories. 

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