Because of tomorrow's Mass Market Paperback release of The Deception by Kat Martin, I'm re-posting the review I wrote in 2019 when the book was first published in hardcover.
The Deception
by Kat Martin
Maximum Security - Book 2
Publisher: HQN
Paperback Release Date: April 28, 2020
Reviewed by PJ
When missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she
never wanted to go…
After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she’s called to the
morgue to identify Chrissy’s body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief send Kate
into a tailspin. She failed Chrissy once…she won’t do it again. Even if finding her sister’s killer means
following a lethal bounty hunter into the heart of darkness, placing both their lives in danger.
Working at Maximum Security has taken Jason Maddox down some dangerous paths, but never for a
client he’s so drawn to, or for a case so monstrous. As clues lead them deeper into the city’s underbelly,
connections to human trafficking draw them closer and closer to peril, but even Jase’s warnings can’t
convince Kate to walk away. As the deadly operation puts a target on their backs, they’ll have to decide
what matters most: the truth…or their lives.My thoughts:
Kat Martin cranks up the heat, and the stakes, in this newest addition to her Maximum Security, romantic suspense series. Filled with non-stop action, edge-of-the-seat suspense, and twists and turns that had me guessing how it would all turn out until almost the end, this page-turner kept me reading late into the night. Jason and Kate are such a well-matched couple. I loved them in the bedroom (hot!) and in the field (where Kate really comes into her own). This is a story of growth, of connection, of determination to avenge a horrible death, to rescue innocents from the same fate, to discover your life's passion and, in the process, the person you're meant to share that life, and passion, with.
Martin grabbed me from the first page, pulled me into a dark and gritty world of drugs, money laundering, and human trafficking, and kept me riveted until the end. Characters are well-developed, inciting emotional responses across the board. A sub-plot involving a young girl is especially riveting...and heart-wrenching. (content warning for underage human trafficking). It's an emotional roller-coaster with a hard-won, well-deserved, happy ending awaiting the good guys and a satisfying reckoning for the bad ones.
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Big news from Kat regarding Linc and Carly
in Beyond Reason! If you haven't read the
book yet, check out my review here.
The Deception
Kat Martin
As I was finishing the
last few pages of my novel, THE DECEPTION, Hawk Maddox and Kate Gallagher’s
story, I got an interesting phone call. I’m
fortunate to be represented by a literary agency in New York as well as an
agency in Hollywood.
Since I love movies, I’ve
always wanted to see one of my books made into a feature film. The Hollywood agency phoned about my novel BEYOND
REASON. The story is set in Texas, an
action adventure that revolves around the rivalry between Carly Drake, who
inherits her grandfather’s failing trucking firm, and powerful,
multimillionaire Lincoln Cain, her number one competitor.
Worse yet, Carly needs
Linc’s help to find the men who are willing to kill to keep her from making
Drake Trucking successful again.
Big money is
involved. And very big danger.
The transaction involving
the rights was exciting from beginning to end, with David Haring at TinRes
Entertainment making the offer, several agents negotiating the terms,and me
thrilled to have a chance to see one of my books made into a film. Most likely, the story will be a made-for-TV
movie, but it is also optioned with the possibility of a major motion picture or
TV series. I would love to see 6’5” Lincoln
Cain on a weekly TV show!
Once the deal was
completed, I went back to work on THE DECEPTION, the paperback is being
released on April 28th. I hope you will
watch for it and that you will also keep an eye out for Linc and Carly’s
movie. It takes years to complete a film
but I promise to keep you posted on details as they come in.
Till then happy reading
and all best wishes, Kat
Bestselling author Kat
Martin, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, currently resides
in Missoula, Montana with Western-author husband, L. J. Martin. More than seventeen million copies of Kat’s
books are in print, and she has been published in twenty foreign countries. Fifteen of her recent novels have taken
top-ten spots on the New York Times Bestseller
List, and her novel, BEYOND REASON, was recently optioned for a feature
film. Kat’s next hardcover, THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL, a Romantic Thriller, will be
released on July 28th.
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