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Book Review of Dark Highway (Jessica Shaw, Bk 3)

Dark Highway (Jessica Shaw, Bk 3)
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Jessica Shaw has taken a job working under Private Investigator Matt Connor so she can qualify for a California P.I. License. Their first case is finding 24-year-old Laurie Simmonds who disappeared two months ago. Her van was found along Twentynine Palms Highway and the police have no leads. Jessica and Matt quickly discover that two other women have disappeared from the same deserted highway in the last two years. As they re-interview the many witnesses in these missing persons cases, Laurie's parents suddenly drop the case. But Jessica isn't ready to give up on the case or on Laurie Simmonds.

The third book in Lisa Gray's Jessica Shaw series is a page turner. With Jessica and Matt looking into three separate missing persons cases, there were a lot of characters to keep track of. I ended taking notes so I could keep them straight in my head. The timeline jumps when telling the missing persons stories got a little confusing for a while. I'm glad the author tells us the date and whose point-of-view we are reading at the beginning of each chapter.

I liked this mystery and did eventually figure it out only a few minutes before Jessica did herself. This was a good addition to the series. My rating: 4.5 Stars.


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