REVIEW: Abandoned by Allison Brennan

Abandoned (Max Revere #5) by Allison Brennan: Maxine Revere is a well-known investigative reporter who specializes in cold cases. She decides that it is time to investigate the most important cold case of all, at least to her, the disappearance of her mother, the mother who abandoned her when she was nine years old. Max was left with her grandparents just before her tenth birthday and never saw her mother again after that. For the next few years she received post cards around the time of her birthday. Then those post cards stopped coming. Why?

Max has been haunted by the disappearance of her mother. Seven years after receiving the last postcard her mother was declared legally dead. Max is really good at what she does. With the information she receives from Sean Rogan, another investigator she hired to help her look into this case, Max drops everything and heads to Cape Haven, Virginia where a car suspected to have been owned by her mother was found abandoned sixteen years previously. Why there? What happened?

Abandoned is the fifth book in the Max Revere series by author Allison Brennan. The storyline is very intriguing with lots of action and suspense to keep a reader hooked until the very end. I am a big Allison Brennan fan and this story is one of her best. Fans of action-packed, thrilling suspense stories will want to read this book.

Book Info:

Publication: Published August 14th 2018 | Minotaur Books | Max Revere #5

Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she’s never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now.

With a single clue―that her mother’s car disappeared sixteen years ago in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay―Max drops everything to finally seek the truth. As Max investigates, and her mother’s story unfolds, she realizes that Martha teamed up with a con man. They traveled the world living off Martha’s trust and money they conned from others.

Though no one claims to know anything about Martha or her disappearance, Max suspects more than one person is lying. When she learns the FBI has an active investigation into the con man, Max knows she’s on the right path. But as Max digs into the dark secrets of this idyllic community, the only thing she might find is the same violent end as her mother.

New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan weaves the intimate, unputdownable story of an investigator confronting the most important–and most dangerous–mystery of her career.