He had gray hair and was dressed in a light gray suit and tie, which blended into the subdued tones of the office. This is a fast-paced, nail-biter, that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last. The Ransom: A Nicole Graves Mystery (Nicole Graves Mysteries Book 4) by Nancy Boyarsky takes us inside the world of private detective, Nicole Graves. The Ransom, like the previous books of the Nicole Graves Mysteries by Author Nancy Boyarksy, is an exciting mystery featuring one of my favorite women sleuths, Nicole Graves. But she’d already made up her mind that the first person she’d get in touch with would be Antonia—no last name given, just the word housekeeper—who appeared under A in Ashley’s address book.

For reasons Nicole couldn’t explain, he reminded her of a friendly giraffe—perhaps it was his height and hesitant manner. The story Stephanie had mentioned was easy to find, second from the top under a photo of Nicole and Steph.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Even when workmates are simply polite and tolerate each other, sometimes things are not said but one worker may be blissfully obsessed with another and their affections are taken silently to their grave.

Every month, Brad would come to me asking for fifteen thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars from his trust. Find out who she was, where she came from, and what she was doing before she walked into his son’s life. Graves went on to attend The University of Illinois College of Dentistry where she was awarded her Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree along with a Bachelors of Science in Dentistry degree. The police chief, quoted widely on the news, said, We’re putting all our resources into finding both missing women—Victoria Reina and Ashley Rexton—and apprehending those responsible for the death of Bradley Rexton.But I will say that we’ve looked into the MO of the perps, and it fits the pattern of the earlier kidnappings. They were friends, and the same thing happened— Antonia looked away and was quiet for a long moment before going on. When their most terrifying threat is delivered to her door, Nicole is faced with a terrible choice: Should she count on the police or risk going it alone?

Reviews compared The Swap to the mysteries of Mary Higgins Clark and praised Nancy for contributing to the "women-driven mystery field with panache" (Foreword Reviews) as well as for their "hold-onto-the-bar roller coaster" plots (RT Book Reviews). As a newly minted private investigator, Nicole Graves expects to take on legal cases for corporate clients. Nicole flipped through the pages, noting the neat, feminine handwriting, which she presumed to be Ashley’s. She went back to the beginning of the book and flipped through, noticing quite a few entries with area codes in other parts of the country. In the first case, the husband, whose name was never disclosed in the news, followed the abductors’ instructions to the letter.When one of the riverboat passengers winds up dead, Nicole realizes this assignment was anything but straightforward. This was one morning, she thought, she’d be able to treat herself to a leisurely breakfast and have time to read the paper.

Winning gave his life meaning; it was what made him happy, and he’d succeeded spectacularly—until now. In her latest novel, "Boyarsky's imagination serves up a court case that plays with expectations during an era where we push to believe women, resulting in some real bad baddies whom it feels good to root against.

I’m a training professional, and she deserved a lot of credit because she really worked at it, dude, and it showed. Brad’s body, along with the phone message, hadn’t been found until Tuesday morning, when the Rexton’s housekeeper arrived.