The Kill Box by Nichole Christoff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book is the third in a series featuring the same characters. While this book was great as a stand alone I do wish I'd read the two previous novels first to get more information on how the characters met and to better understand their interactions. Besides the story was so good it's a shame I didn't take in all of it.

I'd classify this book as romantic suspense. The romance involves private investigator Jamie and Adam, a Lieutenant Colonel, with DEA agent Marc on the sidelines. Marc is hoping for a triangle, Jamie only has eyes for Adam.

When the book begins Adam is busy recuperating at Jamie's house. He is recovering from wounds he received on their last mission together. Things are heating up when suddenly a strange man breaks into Jamie's house and demands that Adam come with him. Just like that Adam turns cold, packs up his stuff and leaves. Jamie can't figure out what happened, he won't return her calls, and she has no idea where Adam ran off to until Adam's grandmother calls and asks her to come to his hometown and get him out of jail.

When she arrives in the tiny little town of Fallowfield the suspense comes into play. The strange man is an old friend of Adam's from high school. He insists that one of Adam's old friends is in danger, but there is no evidence of that until the "suicide" is discovered. Even though the rest of the town, including the police force, is convinced that the victim killed himself, Jamie knows better. Then Marc turns up, hot on the trail of drug runners. Now Jamie is completely certain she isn't wrong, something is going on in Fallowfield. Throw in a 20 year old mystery that has the townspeople looking askance at Adam and Jamie has her hands full, juggling two men, restoring Adam's reputation, and rounding up the bad guys.

I was confused by the relationship between Adam and Jamie. At first he was interested, then he dropped her like a hot potato. She spends the rest of the story chasing after him. She loves him, he blows her off. She pines after him, he gets jealous when she talks to Marc, then blows her off again. Referencing my earlier comments about not having read the first two books, I wonder if I'm missing something. Because if it was me, well, let's just say, Marc seemed like a really hot alternative. Even if Adam was trying to protect Jamie from his past, and the issues going on in his present, it made him come off as a jerk, not a gallant.



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