Deadly Escape

Shelby Nichols Adventures, Book 11

By: Colleen Helme

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Book 11 in the Shelby Nichols Adventure series

How many times can a person escape death? Shelby Nichols may be one lucky gal, but this time, her luck is about to run out.

Working for a mob-boss has danger written all over it, but when an escaped convict with a lust for revenge goes after him, it’s up to Shelby and her mind-reading skills to keep Uncle Joey alive.

Not only that, a federal agent from her past has an agenda with her name on it, and he won’t take no for an answer. What’s a mind-reading soccer mom to do? If you’re Shelby Nichols, you jump in with your mind wide open and hope for the best.

©2018 Colleen Helme (P)2018 Colleen Helme

Another adventure of the mind reading soccer mom!

DEADLY ESCAPE is Book 11 in the Shelby Nichols Adventures series of light and fun suspense thrillers by author Colleen Helme. Actually this novel is heavier/more suspenseful than any other novels in the series. I've reviewed the first 10 books in the series and rated each of them 5 stars. DEADLY ESCAPE may be the best yet. For the most part the author tells her stories in the first person of protagonist Shelby Nichols; narrator Wendy Tremont King is Shelby's voice and she is wonderful.

Colleen Helme deserves a lot more attention as a very talented author. This series reminds me of the Miss Fortune Mysteries series by Jana DeLeon. I RECOMMEND the Shelby Nichols Adventures series without reservation.

Just gets better !

This particular series has captivated my coworker & sister as well as myself. This one was a twofer in a way & leaves us in anticipation w/o being a cliffhanger for the next book. Love Colleen Helme’s way of doing her stories & the narrator is spot on ! Thank you lady, good as gold, please keep writing !

Shelby is needed in Prime Time!

If this could be a television series, if you could creatively show a character “reading minds”, this series would replace Castle as my favorite. Yes, Shelby and I have similar TV taste. I absolutely love this series and all of its characters! This new installment in the life and times of Shelby Nichols brings so much action and adventure, but this just provides an exciting foil for the growth and development of the characters and their relationships with each other. I can’t wait for ITALY! Thank you Colleen Helme!

PS. A great shout out to Wendy Tremont King for bringing these characters to life with her wonderful performances! Love you too! #GetToWriting #CannotWait #TopOfMyFavs #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes

Absolutely love!

I can't wait for the next book. I just loved this series. I can't wait to here about Ramos and him brother. I hope they find the leak in the CIA.

High Octane adventure with Shelby Nichols-Awesome!

The audible version of Deadly Escape, the 11th volume of the Shelby Nichols adventures was without doubt the best one to date.

As I have mentioned previously, the narration by Wendy Tremont King has literally embodied Shelby and cohorts, and to me Wendy IS Shelby Nichols.

Wendy has continuously improved over the volumes that she has narrated. There were many subtle nuances in and variations in the voicing of various characters and their roles in this book, and it really came to the fore in Deadly Escape and made listening to the story all the more realistic. An example of this is Josh, Shelby’s son, sounding like Chris, but younger, and more boyish. There were real differences that you could hear between Uncle Joey and Ramos, Jackie and Shelby, and other male and female characters. That’s hard to pull off, so kudos to Wendy for making the story all that more absorbing and realistic and enjoyable!

Shelby’s in a lot of trouble in this book. Uncle Joey has personality disputes and fighting over a girl to contend with in his organization. But overshadowing all is the threat of him being killed by an old associate who has escaped out of jail and has a vendetta against Manetto, and wants him dead! At any cost! Is his innocent-seeming daughter involved too? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Literary artist Colleen Helme is not content with just one plot, subplot, or many twists, bringing characters we have known and met before into the story, including characters from Paris, a terrorist, an old love interest of Ramos and the head of the FBI. Can Shelby handle it all? Can she stay in one piece?

Things get really complicated when even her kids are involved, husband Chris is attacked, and may not survive, and Shelby is closer to death – over and over - than she has ever been before. It’s a race against the clock, a standoff with Federal Marshalls, rivalry with the Police, and Uncle Joey in the cross-hairs.

There is more threatening Shelby in this one book than I think we have ever seen before in a single Shelby Nichols adventure. From the queen of close calls, we get within seconds of death, over and over again in this incredibly high octane adventure from bestselling author Colleen Helme.

Shelby gets more mature in every volume. She is more accepting of her talents, though as she adjusts to them she seems to make more slips by answering people’s thoughts, not what they’ve said in this book. More by far than any previous volume. But she is turning her powers to her advantage and purposely using them to help more people in more ways. She is rapidly coming to accept where life has delivered her as a soccer-mom turned investigative consultant who works for both the Police AND a Mob Boss.

There’s one thing I can say with a certainty about this book: You’ll love it!

I highly recommend Deadly Escape without reservation. It works as a standalone novel, but you should definitely go ahead and treat yourself to the whole series. You’ll get to know and love (and hate) the characters and being part of Shelby’s evolution as a person in a very unique situation is worth every penny of the cost of these books. They are gripping, exciting, page-turning fun reads!

These are always great

Colleen Helme writes fun, adventurous and laugh out loud cozy mysteries!

Shelby has the ability to read minds that gets her into trouble time and time again. It's one of the reasons she is now working for a mobster, the police and sometimes the feds.

I also love the way this series has evolved and how the dynamics of the story ARC has gone especially with the mobster Uncle Joey, how over time more and more is revealed to her family and how it all meshes with her family. It sounds like it should be a bad thing but it's really not. I have even started to like Uncle Joey and of course his right hand man Ramos!

It's always a blast to listen to one of these as the Narrator is sooo good! I do recommend you start from the beginning with book one or it could be confusing at times.

Great book!

I have enjoyed this whole series and look forward to book 12! I really like the way the author write multiple cases for Shelby to work on throughout the book which keeps the suspense and adventure so exciting. Thanks for writing such funny exciting books Colleen!

I have enjoyed all the books so far!!

I have loved all of the books in this series!! You can’t help, but love all of the characters and how Colleen even makes the big ole bad guy characters lovable! Wendy does an excellent job with the voices in this series, and I think Uncle Joey’s voice is my favorite:) I can’t wait for the next installment in the series!! Too bad I binge listened too all of the books all ready, but hopefully the new book will be ready in 2019!

loved the story.

one of Colleen Helme's best Shelby Nichols book. the suspense was heightening. please read it.

Full of action and adventure

As always, Shelby's adventures capture my whole attention. I loved this book and the great performance of Wendy Tremont King. I have to say that Colleen Helme and Wendy make the perfect combination. Thank you for another fantastic ride. Looking forward to the next one!

Excellent series

This is book 11 and it's as good as ever.
I thoroughly enjoy these books.
Strangely, Colleen Helme never comes up in any of my recommendations anywhere, while other less great authors do constantly.
Would highly recommend to anyone who likes Jana Deleon as they're quite similar in style I think, easy listening without being twee or dull. A good likeable female character and good interesting secondary characters.
I'll start book 12 as soon as I've submitted this.

A fantastic series!

Wendy Tremont King brings the characters to life in this exciting episode of The Shelby Nichols Adventure series. I highly recommend it!

Great entertainment

5* narration 4 1/2* story. Psychic, investigative, humour, probably most enjoyable for a female audience. This escapist fun continues to be the type of great entertainment that's guaranteed to get me out of any book slump. Griping action one minute and gentle humour the next with the narrator playing it for all it's worth and making a difficult job look easy. The story is brilliant either way but you are missing out if you don't get the audio on this one.