Dr Hannah Nightingale is being terrorized by a former patient. Debbie Connelly was sent to a mental hospital because of Hannah's recommendation and she's not happy. Now she's ready to get her vengeance.
It wasn't easy making it to the end. In my opinion Dr Hannah Nightingale was completely UNbelievable as a forensic psychologist. She was weak, had no backbone and was very emotionally unstable. Her and Debbie were too much alike. More than 75% of the book had no appeal for me. I couldn't get immersed in the story at all.


I received a copy of this book for an honest review.

As a criminal profiler and psychiatrist, Dr Hannah Nightingale has come across some of the most dangerous and disturbed individuals.  Her efforts to help the police in their investigations have led to her being a target on more than one occasion - the last time resulting in her being suspended in a cage of glass.  But despite all that she has suffered, Hannah has persevered.  But now, she has been targeted by at least one of the criminals she has helped to put away.  

Vengeance begins as Hannah is discovered by police, naked, drugged and handcuffed to a glass sculpture.  This is only the first of a series of events designed to drive Hannah to madness.  Next, Hannah is discovered drugged and wandering after being kidnapped from her home.  CCTV footage given to the press and the police makes it look like she is a killer.  Hannah is on the run, searching for the truth, and her friends on the force are seeking her both as a victim and a possible murderer.  Complicating matters, the anonymous letters accusing Hannah also indicate the existence of a previously unnoticed serial killer.

The beginning of this novel creates an overwhelming feeling of tension.  Hannah’s tormentors seem to have everything planned - no gaps, no hope.  Things look really bad for Hannah with the damning video footage.  Suddenly Roy Chester applies a macguffin- SOCO has a new software that makes it obvious Debbie Connelly is the killer, only she’s made up to look like Hannah.  The novel completely changes at this point. Falcon, his boss, and the teammate race against time to find Hannah, Debbie Connelly and her cohort before she has completed her plan for exacting vengeance.  They have oodles of clues from Debbie’s anonymous letters.  The solution is almost too easy.  Readers are too aware that from the point where Hannah’s innocence is shown that it's only a matter of time before she is rescued.

Vengeance has a lot of unrealized potential.  Unfortunately it seems that once Chester set the scene he got tired of it and wanted to expediently finish the novel.  His previous novels are better.  That doesn't mean that Vengeance isn't well written or entertaining, simply that it could be a lot better.

3/5

I received a copy of Vengeance from the publisher and Netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.

--Crittermom

This is one of my favorite series! Outstanding characters and a full steam ahead plot! I wish there were more!

Dr Hannah Nightingale is found drugged and tied to a fountain, reminding her of hanging in a glass lift, shattering around her. Detectives Falcon and Mallory investigating this soon discover that their number one suspect is none other than Debbie Connelly, who has escaped from a secure unit.
Debbie has one goal and that is to make Hannah suffer, suffer in the most humiliating and public way. Dr Hannah Nightingales life spirals out of control, she goes on the run, hiding in ' the wasteland' aka the homeless community. The homeless are scared of someone known by all as the shadow,