Stolen Mothers is another fast-paced thriller from Stacy Green, throwing you once again into the daily life of FBI Agent Nikki Hunt. This time she needs to find the serial killer who is responsible for killing all these women, but there is a harrowing personal story behind it all too. Did what happened nine years ago to Nikki influence what the killer did next?
I sped through the book as quickly as other things allowed me to, and it was a welcome break from the fantasy worlds I am used to.
Parts of Stolen Mothers are fairly graphic, but if you’re a thriller reader anyway, I’m sure you’ll have no problem devouring this in one sitting.
The book is the ninth in the Nikki Hunt series, but only the second one I have read. You definitely won’t lose anything if you read it as a standalone, as Stacy explains previous incidents, characters and everything else as she goes along.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read and review Stolen Mothers by Stacy Green.
About the Book
Children run through the streets in their Halloween costumes, giggling happily, not noticing the blood on the house is real. A baby girl is tucked up asleep in her room. Her mother’s body lies motionless in the front yard, pink petals on the ground beside her…
Arriving in the quiet community of Mulberry Creek, Special Agent Nikki Hunt is shocked that amongst the chaos of costumes and fake, silver spider webs, a new mother called Kiania Watson has lost her life. A blooming rare flower placed carefully in her cold, bound hands. Nikki’s legs go weak: it’s the mark of a serial killer she’s met before.
Nine years ago, Nikki fell in pursuit of a masked man who’d killed a young girl at a cabin in rural Minnesota. Seeing her cradling the bump of her pregnant belly, he’d spared her life. She was told he’d died in a shoot-out days later. But the pink flower only grows at that cabin: it’s a message to Nikki.
Nikki’s team are quick to suspect Kiania’s abusive husband. But Nikki finds two further, similar murders in other states. Flowers were left in their palms when they died. Nikki’s heart breaks when she realizes all the victims were mothers to newborn babies.
Digging desperately into old case files, Nikki finds blood on a rock she secured nine years ago, which has never been tested. But not before receiving a desperate call that another woman has just been taken. This twisted killer is playing a deadly game, and Nikki must risk her own life if she has any chance of returning this mother to her child alive…
About Stacy
USA Today Bestselling author Stacy Green grew up watching crime shows with her parents, so her love of suspense and psychological thrillers is no surprise. The baby of a “yours, mine, and ours” family, Stacy grew up in southeastern Iowa where life was always a step slower and everyone knew each other’s name.
A natural introvert, Stacy turned to writing early on, compiling notebooks of stories. She read every mystery she could get her hands on, from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden to Agatha Christie and more. It wasn’t until she read Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire that she realized how deeply she wanted to create her own literary world. A college professor changed her mind, however, and Stacy found herself in the magazine journalism program at Drake University.
After earning her degree in journalism and sociology, Stacy worked in advertising before becoming a stay-at-home mom to her miracle child. She rediscovered her love of writing and wrote several articles for a city magazine before penning her first novel. She shelved the long drama and began working on a suspense book set in Las Vegas, featuring a heroine on the edge of disaster, a tormented villain, and the city’s infamous storm drains that house hundreds of homeless. INTO THE DARK (newly republished as INTO THE DEVIL’S UNDERGROUND) was published by MuseItUp Publishing in 2012 and hailed by New York Times Bestselling Author Diane Capri as “captivating from the first page to the end.”
Her brief dip into the publishing world quickly taught Stacy she was better suited to pursue her dreams of Indie Publishing, and she partnered with a team of high quality designers and editors to produce her bestselling Delta Crossroads Series, followed by The Lucy Kendall Series.
Stacy is blessed to be a full-time writer and follower of her dreams, but when she’s not writing, she spends her time with her precocious daughter, supportive husband, and their three obnoxious but lovable canine children.
