Line of Fire

Autumn Rain #4

by Rachel Ann Nunes

Some secrets are best left alone.

Autumn Rain is back to work, along with handsome Detective Shannon Martin, but this time her investigation is personal. She must prove whether or not Cody Beckett is responsible for the disappearance of a young girl. His record makes him the main suspect, even if there's not enough evidence to arrest him, and Autumn's unique ability to read imprints may be the only way she can uncover the truth.

What Autumn discovers, however, is far bigger than she or Shannon expected. Secrets, lies, missing evidence, and Autumn's own volatile feelings regarding Cody muddy the case until they aren't sure whom to trust, even among their own allies.

Soon Autumn and Shannon are running out of time to save their own lives and the lives of more than one little girl.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Lds Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Lds, Romance

297 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2012

About the author

Rachel Ann Nunes (pronounced noon-esh) learned to read when she was four and by seventh grade knew she was going to be an author. Now as a stay-at-home mother of seven, it isn't easy to find time to write, but she will trade washing dishes or weeding the garden for an hour at the computer any day! Her only rule about writing is to never eat chocolate at the computer. "Since I love chocolate and writing," she jokes, "my family might never see me again."

Rachel has over sixty published books, including the popular Ariana series and the award-winning picture book Daughter of a King. She enjoys hiking, swimming, spending time with her family, reading, and visiting far off places.

For more information or to join her e-mailing list, visit http://www.RachelAnnNunes.com.

Reviews

[Halle Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quote in the book that I liked was “I prayed for strength. For anything to tip the balance in my favor.”
I liked this because it shows how serious and intense every situation was. Autumn was always takes risks if that meant she was getting close to her answer. She needed the most luck in the book in my opinion with as much trouble as she was getting into.
I loved the main character Autumn. She was sassy but she did have a loving side to her. She loved her partner secretly but she was all business when needed. She also was very brave in the things she decided to do I order to find the missing girl. She had a personality only some liked.
A theme that I noticed is to never let what others say effect you. Nobody believed she had real “powers” but she showed them wrong every time. She didn’t care if they didn’t believe her because she solved the case before they did. Her partner was also very good at this, he wasn’t supposed to be helping but everything he added was right.
Overall I really liked this book. It kept me reading. I read this book in 2 days and never wanted to put it down. It was a love filled mystery with characters that made you laugh and made you cry at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves an instead mystery.

[Mina · Rating 2 out of 5]

**The following review should be read with the understanding that the reviewer routinely falls asleep during action movies (even in the theater), and can stay awake into the wee hours of the night watching bonnet films.**

So, that said, this book was not my favorite of this series. Autumn Rain is a woman with a gift of being able to read "imprints" off of objects. These are memories and views and emotions of anyone who had handled that object while they were touching it. I hope that sentence made sense. Anyhow, this ability has lead her to be a police consultant for crime solving.

In the previous books, there is a fair amount of sleuthing/action etc all mixed in with relationship and character development of Autumn as she discovers the uses for her gift, meets a biological twin with a similar gift, gets all romantic-like with the officer she's frequently working with, etc.

Apparently that's what I have enjoyed about this series. This installation covers only a 24 hour period in nearly 300 pages. It is, obviously ACTION packed, and pieces of the mystery come up and are solved at an alarming rate. There is very little in the way of relationship development with anyone except maybe (just a LITTLE) her newly found biological father who shares Autumn's exact gift.

I'm sure I'll stick with the series, because it takes an awful series for me to be able to quit. I'm just hoping that the next installments get back to the human interest side of this story.

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the uniqueness of the imprinting ability that autumn has and the talent that her sister Tania has also to scotch scenes of someone who needs help. I love the continuation of their story to find information about their family and past. This novel leads autumn on the journey to find her biological father and see not only what he is like ,but if he is guilty for the disappearance of a young girl in his area. What she finds is a gruff old man is relatively good shape who has her abilities for imprinting and the guilty and remorse from past wrongs. He is involved in knowing where Jenny is, but not how she first assumed. Shannon, the detective from Portland that she works with and also is trying to have. Relationship with goes with her. They run into drug dealers, child traffickers, and some bad cops, but they find Jenny and find that Cody Beckett her father actually helped to hide Jenny with her mothers help, to keep her safe from her real father who was involved with drugs. Jenny' be becomes the pain for the dealers to get back at Jennys dad for not cooperating. Love to see the relationship with Shannon and autumn growing sad that jake is left with no one.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the first book in this series a couple of years ago, but didn't realize that before I started reading Line of Fire. It's been long enough that I didn't remember a lot of details from that book, but I was a least familiar with Autumn and her "imprinting" ability.

The idea of being able to feel emotions that others have left behind on objects was so interesting. It really pulled me into this story, and I was very curious to find out if Autumn would be able to help the police find the missing teenager, and to discover what, if anything, her biological father had to do with it.

My attention waned after awhile though, and I was a bit distracted by Autumn's ninja abilities. It is totally realistic that people can be good fighters, but it just didn't seem to fit very well with her organic, hippie-raised personality.

The kidnapping issue was resolved, but the end seemed to be open for more in the series.

[Jodie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the story, I just had two problems with the book. First, there were a few parts of the story that were assumed or left out. Like when Autumn rubs her contact out and she says in the book, oh I should have thought about that because of what Huish said. I looked back, Huish didn't say anything. Stuff like that happened about 4 times, and it frustrated me. Second, it seemed to run around a lot around the same characters, without considering other possible perps. I'm not sure if that was what the author wanted to do, or if it was easier that way. I just think that when Autumn and the police were talking about the possibilities, they should have checked off those they had already figured out didn't do it instead of going back to them every single time they talked. Otherwise it was great. Couldn't put it down.

[R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alright, so I don't want this series to end at this point. There seems to be so much still left open, especially with Cody and Shannon. Jake seems to be awkwardly moving back to the "friends" category while nothing beyond a few stolen kisses and more work appears to have happened with Autumn and Shannon, so there isn't a defined relationship there yet either. This is rather disappointing overall with the increasingly strong connection between the two of them. Cody ended up not being what was entirely expected either, which was a welcome relief. It would be really nice to see how things develop between him and the girls now that they've all admitted to wanting to learn more. Obviously, Autumn's forgiveness meant a lot more to him than he was willing to say if his brief panic before learning about Tawnia was anything to go by. Really hoping there's another book in the horizon!

[Katie (hiding in the pages) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This crime mystery kept me guessing and I never would have predicted the ending.

Autumn Rain is at it again--trying to solve the disappearance of a young teen with her ability to read imprints on objects....and to meet her biological father at the same time. I like her relationship with Portland detective, Shannon, but wish that part of it was a little more prominent. I like seeing how the puzzle comes together because of Autumn's gift.

[Kari · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this mystery case was MUCH better than the previous in the Autumn Rainn series, I'm disappointed that Nunes has moved away from the books being about Autumn discovering herself and where she comes from with a little bit of mystery case solving on the side, to full on mystery case solving with a little bit of Autumn development on the side. I liked the series because of Autumn and now it's losing the aspect that made it special.

[Book Geek Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably closer to 3.5 stars for me. I really liked the plot and the twists, but I wasn't quite as connected to the characters as I like to be. I also felt I was getting a lot of unnecessary info thrown at me in larger doses than I prefer.

However, it's pretty good. I read the first book about Autumn Rain, and this one, but I'm thinking I may go back and read the one (two?) in between.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my favorite of the series so far. Lots of action, light on the "I love Shannon, oh, now I love Jake!" conflict (and that should be read in the same voice Homer uses to do impressions of Marge). Sure, some stuff is unrealistic, but so is the whole idea of 'imprints' so I'm willing to cut some slack for the sake of a great read.

[Sherilynn Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fourth book in the Autumn Rain Series. Another hit. I love this series and recommend it to all who love mystery sleuthing. The fifth book in the series is expected to be released sometime in August of 2013, it's entitled Blinded and I can't wait. It's so fun to find good authors and Rachel Ann Nunes has definitely been added to my most favorite author list. Can't wait until August. :)

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been awhile since I have read an Autumn Rain novel, but this one did a good job standing on its own. I started reading it in e-book form, but only had about 2/3 of the book download. I grabbed the paperback and finished up. Good storyline that is filled with twists and turns. Keeping characters straight got a little challenging (mainly the bad guy suspects), but otherwise great story .

[Lacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite in the Autumn Rain series. I found myself getting confused as to who was who in the story, and I missed having more involvement from other characters in this book (Jake, Tawnia, etc).

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

More like 3.5 stars. This is my favorite Autumn Rain book thus far, it has an almost cinematic adventure thriller feel, with a fairly complex plot where almost no one is telling the whole truth. It is not the best I have ever read in this genre, but it is fun.

[Cameron Gleed · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is very interesting and kept me guessing the whole way through. Definitely a page-turner!

The action scenes were not very intense because the main character never seems bothered by the fact that she might die.

The little side romance between Autumn and Shannon felt out of place.

[Teya Teya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really love this series. Just remember this one comes before blinded. I don't think there is another before. I love the intensity. I love that she pushes the limit on these books and doesn't hold back or cushion these books. Excellent! Can't wait for more.

[Cheri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Could all of this have really happened in just one day? I am not a fan of this series and thought that it should have ended with the last book.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was another great book about Autumn Rain. She goes to find out about her birth father and helps clear his name in an investigation.

[Dianna Signs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, but hadn't developed relationship enough with her and officer Shannon-too many fight scenes-got way tired of them at the end.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun series and I'm enjoying it. I feel like the romantic element is dragging a bit but this book is packed with action and suspense from beginning to end. A great read.

[Karijean31 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy the Autumn Rain series!

[Julie]

This is still my favorite series of Rachel Nunes. Love Autumn and Shannon and this book does not disappoint.

[Cherri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Autumn Rain is investigating a missing girl and a found parent.

[Avvie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm way excited about reading this series.

[Ralynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

really liked this book a must read.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the series keeps getting better. Loved it.

[Debbie Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book two liked this series. But didn't read third book. Imprints is first book in the series.

Like the authors writing style.

[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this author. This series has been fun to read but I really thought this would be the last book.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story, but Autumn sure did beat up a lot of evil men (including a few armed men) in one day. But... ok.

[Swhe641200 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a clean fun read. Fantasy with the imprints.