[BWF] Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado ★★★★½

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Two well-known names in the thriller genres and I couldn't help myself especially since I am a fan of Isabella Maldonado; I've read all her books and enjoyed them immensely. Can't say I've read all of Deaver's because his backlist is on a much bigger scale and will probably take me the rest of my life to slowly hack through them. However, this partnership is obviously a gold mine; mixing in POC female federal agent and a CIS male hacker resulting in a high octane partnership.

At first, it sounds like the usual police procedural with a somewhat explosive protagonist agent. When the partner was introduced, I was a little bit sceptical about it because I just don't like enemies to lovers but it was kinda sounding like one. However, as the story goes on, readers were given flashbacks to their first encounter in the past and how that transfers on to the present.

As this pair continues their hunt for the killer, again I felt like it's follow on form of the usual procedural novel until the twist drops and then again and again. The last 20% was most definitely unputdownable although I'm slightly annoyed at the fish dangling at the end of the novel. BUT I cannot wait for the follow up to this!

My thanks to Thomas & Mercer for ecopy of book via NetGalley in exchange of my honest thoughts

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