RIVER’S EDGE (River Collins FBI Mystery Thriller 1) by Kate Gable-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 28, 22025
FBI Agent River Collins knows firsthand the terror of being taken. Twenty years after escaping her own abductor, she still carries the scars—and he was never caught. Now, in the quiet college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, two mothers have vanished on their way to pick up their children from school, leaving behind empty cars and unanswered questions.
While her sister enjoys the picture-perfect life River could never achieve—marriage, children, a beautiful home—River throws herself into the investigation, recognizing patterns that only someone with her traumatic past could see. But as the case intensifies, so do her nightmares, forcing River to confront the darkness she’s spent two decades trying to outrun.
With time running out for the missing women and her own past threatening to derail the investigation, River must decide if facing her demons will be the key to solving the case—or her ultimate undoing.
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REVIEW: RIVER’S EDGE is the first instalment in Kate Gable’s contemporary, adult RIVER COLLINS FBI mystery thriller series focusing on thirty four year old, FBI Agent Rebecca ‘River’ Collins.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from three first person perspectives including River Collins, RIVER’S EDGE follows in the wake of the abduction of two local women, stay at home mothers, with only their children’s school to connect them. Remembering her own kidnapping twenty years earlier, Agent River Collins struggles to face the possibilities of what is happening to the missing women. As River, and fellow Agent Emma Bertinelli begin a deep dive into the possible whereabouts of the missing women, a pattern begins to emerge, with the discovery of several other women missing in the surrounding area…but all is not well in the FBI office when one of their own suffers the ultimate betrayal.
Meanwhile, River’s sister Leslie is desperate to see River happily married, but the blind dates are failures, and only one man has caught the eye of our story line heroine.
The world building is familiar to fans of Kate Gable as there are many similarities with backstories and premises, including the betrayals directed at the heroine, and the people with whom she works.
RIVER’S EDGE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, friendships and relationships. The character driven premise is intriguing, dramatic and gripping; the characters are determined and charismatic.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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