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A Dose of Danger
Kim McMahill
Prism Book Group, May 2015
Suspense
$3.99 eBook/$13.99 Print
ISBN: 978-1-943104-08-6
When researcher Grace Talbot and her team discover a possible solution for
weight loss they become targets of a group dedicated to controlling the
multi-billion dollar a year diet-product industry. Her unsanctioned testing
methods bring tragedy to the family ranch and the attention of the local
sheriff’s deputy. With her colleagues either dead, missing, or on the run she
soon realizes she must trust the deputy with her life, but can she trust him
with her heart?
My review:
Entrepreneurialism and greed is killing Americans from the
inside out, and dedicated FBI Agents Devyn Nash and Nick Melonis are on the
hunt in this new series from best-selling author Kim McMahill.
Using her home territory of the US West, readers go along on
what becomes more than a manhunt, but a mysterious corporation with
far-reaching tentacles infiltrating the food we eat from the farm animals up.
In A Dose of Danger, McMahill explores what we hope is a fictional scenario in
which the testing process of controlled substances used for human diet
medications come under suspicion. The story opens with corporate researcher
Grace Talbot on her way home to the family farm which she’s been informed has
suffered a suspicious fire that killed long-time family farmhand Butch and
severely injured her uncle, the man who raised her from childhood. Grace has an
ulterior motive for rushing to the scene, however, as the reader soon learns of
her own mistrust in the system she works for. She is met at the ranch by Deputy
Logan Carlson, and the two of them struggle against the elements and desperate
thugs to stay alive and salvage the research that holds the truth about project
Grace is working on.
Well into the story we meet the FBI Agents Nash and Melonis
who have been working the cases of mysterious deaths in various aspects of the
food industry. When Grace’s colleagues start dropping like flies or running for
their lives, Nash and Melonis wonder if this situation is another piece of the
puzzle they are working on, and get involved. Grace must decide how much to
trust Logan as the too-good-to-be-true deputy works out his own past issues in
order to help keep her alive.
This is a stand-alone story, however, the FBI Agents carry
on their work in the next book in which they attempt to get closer to the
mysterious corporation trying to affect our eating habits. The suspense kept me
coming back to read in every spare moment, and I bonded with the characters and
their dilemmas. I expected a shoot out to be typical and was prepared to skim
through it but ended up reading every word. Those who enjoy romantic suspense
with several twists, large casts telling the story from several viewpoints, and
with more than one side story going on will eat up this series.
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A Taste of Tragedy
Kim McMahill
Suspense
Prism Book Group, April 2016
$3.99 eBook/$13.99 Print
ISBN: 978-1-943104-45-1
Morgan Hunter sacrificed everything for her career. She had yet to encounter
anything she wasn’t willing to do to succeed...until now. When she uncovers
evidence that the healthy foods she’s been hired to promote may be dangerous,
she must reevaluate her priorities. As questions mount and the body count
rises, she finds herself caught in the cross-hairs of an organization that will
stop at nothing to hide its secrets and protect its profits. With no one else
to trust, Morgan is forced to seek help from the man she drove away, but whom
she never stopped loving...
My review:
The second book in best-selling author Kim McMahill’s Risky
Research series brings FBI Agents Devyn Nash and Nick Melonis a little closer
to their hunt for a mysterious corporation trying to manipulate American food
and eating habits through the use of dangerous uncontrolled substances. In this
story, a southwestern corporation making pre-packaged frozen foods for sale is
under suspicion when a new division manager, Morgan Hunter, comes on the scene.
Only the job is not what is appears to be and as Morgan searches for elusive
information too carefully guarded by a micro-managing corporate head and the
creepy assistant assigned to her, she stirs up a whole lot of danger. Unsure
how to proceed when she finds a mysterious message, she calls on her former
husband for help. Learning her predecessor died triggers the attention of the FBI
who move in to tie this case to their own hunt for corporate greed stopping at
nothing for their own nefarious purpose.
While this story can stand alone, readers will want to have
read or read A Dose of Danger, the first book in the series, to be better acquainted
with the FBI case and some of the characters introduced then. There is a large
cast to get to know, and while they are so well drawn it’s easy to keep them
apart, there is some back story that makes it a smoother transition to this new
part of the series. Told in multiple character viewpoints, the pace keeps
readers turning pages. For those who like clean-reading romantic suspense with lots
of twists and angles to explore and ruthless characters, A Taste of Tragedy
will satisfy. I look forward to reading more.
