A Dangerous Game

New York Confidential, Book 3

By: Heather Graham

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

TROUBLE ALWAYS FINDS HER...

Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street.

Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do - he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it.

But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble, and Kieran won't sit idle when a lead surfaces through her family's pub. Investigating on her own, she uncovers a dangerous group that plays fast and loose with human lives and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets - and they plan to silence Kieran before she can expose their deadly enterprise.

©2018 Heather Graham Pozzessere (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

Great story

I really like Heather Graham she is a wonderful author. I have read all her books

Great Suspense Story

Love Saskie and the life she brings to all the characters she reads. I enjoy Heather Graham’s books very much & like her repeat characters.

Good plot line - keeps you guessing- main characters a little annoying

Love the author overall & have listened to many if her books including the first 4 in this series thinking the main characters would evolve but they just stay annoying. She keeps secrets that really don't need to be and has to always justify them to her seriously over protective FBI boyfriend. She's a little whiney too. it has to be planned character flaws as the brother's fiance even takes a go at telling her it's not always about her. But I just am tired of it and probably won't continue the series unless maybe the book is free. if you can get over her cell phone being forgotten or broken at nearly every inconvenient tine, her making poor decisions always putting her in dangerous situations, the whining and BF attitude, you might enjoy it. The plot is good overall and the narrator does well and improved with each book.

Losing interest….

Starting to dislike Kieran tremendously. No matter how many times someone says how smart she is, she turns around and does something utterly stupid….book after book. I’d have walked away from her loooooong ago. Craig must tune her out. And don’t forget the insincere apologizes after she does something stupid. I sometimes think I’ve hit rewind when the exact same phrases are repeated over and over. Graham’s poor choice of wording repeatedly makes characters look like superior “behinds.” Maarleveld does a good job of voice differentiation, but her emotional, over the top drama interpretation of professionals “in their element” is absurd. With much revision and deletion of repeats repeats repeats the story would be fine, just half the length.

Couldn’t get past 2 chapters.

Had to stop after 2 chapters. The author repeated the same scenario so many times I thought the audio was defective. How many times do we need to be told about the baby being thrust into protagonist’s arms and the woman who did it dying shortly afterward. It’s the opening minutes, and the crux of the plot. Doesn’t need to be reviewed from every other character’s perspective for the next 2 chapters. Get on with the story already. Sorry even Saskia’s narration couldn’t help this one.

Same old same old

I'm so tired of reading books where the female lead thinks she know better than law inforceement.

Slow paced and predictable

This would have been a decent story if it wasn’t for the annoying female protagonist. I simply could not rectify her behavior with a very active FBI agent BF. Calling and fretting and butting into multi bureau business just didn’t settle with me. No major plot twist at all. A lot of red herrings but i was pretty convinced hours before i dragged my ears through the pain of a reveal. It took me way longer than usual to finish. It was a drag.