Without Mercy

A Dakota Steele FBI Suspense Thriller, Book 1

De: Ava Strong

Narrado por: Tanya Saari

MMA champ turned FBI special agent and BAU specialist Dakota Steele is as tough as they come—and as brilliant, too, able to crack serial killers that no one else can. But this new case is unlike anything she’s seen, and Dakota, weighed down by the demons of her own past, may have just reached her breaking point.

Without Mercy is the debut novel of a brand-new series by critically acclaimed and number one best-selling mystery and suspense author Ava Strong.

Dakota’s last case broke her, driving her to quit the FBI and return to the hard streets of her South Dakota hometown. She is weighed down by a lifetime of fighting and by the demons of her dark past: her missing sister who vanished when Dakota was a teenager. Her estranged father, who she still can’t bring herself to speak to.

The killer she let get away.

Dakota has hit her low point.

Only the most desperate case—and the tough love of her partner—can lure her back.

Victims are disappearing along empty stretches of desert highway, with no witnesses. The landscape is desolate, the people tough and dangerous. And the police are stumped.

Time is running out before the next victim is taken, and it’s up to Dakota to connect the dots.

Can Dakota stop him in time?

Or will her own demons take her for good?

A complex psychological crime thriller full of twists and turns and packed with heart-pounding suspense, the Dakota Steele mystery series will make you fall in love with a brilliant new female protagonist and keep you listening late into the night.

Books two and three in the series—Without Remorse and Without a Past—are now also available.

©2022 Ava Strong (P)2022 Ava Strong

Thin plot and characters

Drawn out, unrealistic, very thin plot and characters. Verbose and tedious while trying to be psychologically insightful (which it’s not)

Fighting and bikers

Dakota Steele walked away from the FBI after her last case didn’t go as planned. She caused a killer to get away and a girl killed. Marcus entices Dakota with a new case trying to lure her back.
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Motorcycle killer is on the loose in Nevada.
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This is my first time listening to an Ava Strong audiobook. I’m not liking this book. Bikers are not my type of read. It’s not your typical procedure investigative story. Dakota is a tough fighter chick who lives in a crappy neighborhood. Marcus is a bulk of a nice guy. These characters are not your stereotypical heroes. Dakota is the trigger fighting female ready to throw a punch while Marcus the big black guy is the calm and tame guy who settles Dakota’s actions.
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I am not the intended audience for this type of storyline. I was easily distracted. The dialogue by the killer was really bad. Ava Strong’s writing style doesn’t line up with my reading style.
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Tanya Saari is the solo female narrator. This was an okay performance. I prefer duet performances especially when a voice actor is not skilled at voicing the male baritone. It’s not an easy task for a female performer. Only a few can achieve it.

Snooze

Author uses every word in the thesaurus to describe something, it puts you to sleep. The narrator speaks even the most mundane sentence with so much emotion, it makes you questionin if you really understood the meaning. it was annoying to listen to.