RS Review: Hunted (Hardcover)

I've finished "Hunted" by Karen Robards.

’Twas the night before Christmas and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis “Holly” Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned-murder, Ware finds his and his friend’s lives in dire danger. The crime Holly witnessed could be the biggest police cover-up this side of New Orleans — and no one’s talking. Driven to desperate measures to uncover the truth, Ware stages a coup at a Christmas party for the New Orleans elite, including the mayor, the council chairman, the sheriff, and the superintendent of police, who just happens to be hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace’s estranged father.

Cool, calm, controlled. That’s Caroline’s reputation. But when she’s brought in to talk Ware off the proverbial ledge, she realizes no amount of false promises is going to placate this man, who looks even hotter than he did years ago when seventeen-year-old Caroline tried to seduce him. It was his duty to protect her family then. Now it’s her turn if she can think fast enough over the pounding of her heart.

When Caroline becomes wrapped up in the drama, it’s clear the sizzling tension she shared with Ware never let up. And the harder she tries to defuse the situation, the more she begins to wonder whose side she’s really on.

About the Author

Karen Robards is the author of more than forty novels and one novella. A regular on the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, among others, she is the mother of three boys and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Product Details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Gallery Books; First Edition edition (December 10, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451678711
ISBN-13: 978-1451678710

My Review:

I liked Detective Reed Ware's character because he was dedicated in finding where Ant (a young kid) was being held and making sure his older brother Hollis was protected and away from danger.  I'm really glad that he was able to control his attraction to Caroline when he was her bodyguard when she was 17 and he was 25 I believe.

I didn't really like Caroline because she is suppose to be a cop but she sure didn't act like one.  She was quite annoying with her actions and all she did was ask questions.

3/5