Review: Dead Letters - Sheila Lowe

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Dead Letters: A Claudia Rose Novel (Forensic Handwriting Mysteries Book 8)

Review: Dead Letters - Book #8 Forensic Handwriting Mysteries - Sheila Lowe - June 2021

This book had captured me by the title and the blurb. The other thing that drew me in was the Forensic Handwriting side of things as I am big on Crime and I geek out on things like personality tests and deciphering people/ profiling and all from their handwriting. The other thing that drew me to this book was that the main character Monica was on an archaeological dig in Egypt. Dead Letters starts with Monica in Egypt and meeting hottie Colin Vine who is a bit like an evil Indiana Jones-type character mixed with the slimy bugger from The Mummy - Benny. He is older than Monica and she is swept by his charm. The book moves forward swiftly and back home, Monica's dad went to his high school reunion and that ended up deadly. The book then jumps to Claudia Rose who is Monica's Aunt and her dad’s sister. Claudia starts to worry as she can't get a hold of Monica and so she does some digging of her own and discovers that Monica has disappeared along with Colin Vine. Some believe they are on a romantic trip away together but Claudia's aunty-radar senses something is off and so she heads to Egypt only to find that her niece has been kidnapped by Terrorists and black-market sellers. Now Claudia must race against the clock and use her crime skills and connections to find her niece before it's too late.  I have to admit I was a little put-off and felt disappointed by the ending of this book and it kind of ruined the story a bit for me but besides that overall Dead Letters was an action-packed read filled with numerous twists and turns. Even though this is Book #8 in the series, it can be read as a standalone.

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