Fran and Ken Stien are siblings whose parents "manufactured" them. After creating them, their parents left them for parts unknown. Now in their 30's, they work as private investigators specializing in finding biological parents for children who are adopted.

Austin Cobb comes to them and wants to hire them to find his biological parents. Fran goes to the adoption agency and finds the adoption file to be super sealed. No one will divulge the information in the file. The more she pokes and prods to get the information the more dangerous it becomes. But no fear there, because she and her brother have extraordinary strength that gets them out of all kinds of messes.

Interesting concept and interesting characters. Finding birth parents becomes difficult and dangerous for our sibling private investigators.

Fran and Ken Stein (clever, right?) are a dynamic brother-sister duo working as private investigators, specializing in helping adopted children find their birth parents. Their latest case brings them to Austin Cobb, a medical researcher on the autism spectrum, who has been haunted by the question of why his birth parents chose adoption. Eager to find answers, Austin hires Fran to investigate, only for her to uncover more questions than answers. But, Fran and Ken aren't your average investigators (but I’ll let them tell you about that).

When I first received my DRC, I wasn’t aware that this was part of a series, so please take my review with a grain of salt as I’m sure there’s a lot of important backstory I missed.

The story definitely grabbed my attention in the beginning. I found Fran’s witty side comments amusing and was intrigued by the mystery unfolding. However, by the end, I found the side remarks to be a bit exhausting, and I struggled to connect with Fran—or any of the characters, for that matter. While I’m sure this book will appeal to many readers, it wasn’t quite for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Severn House for the review copy!

I liked this book! It was a good creepy thriller and the addition of some paranormal activity gave it a good extra twist! I think it was entertaining, kept me engaged since page one! I id enjoy the whole story!!

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!

Enjoyabk2 story. Interesting characters development and has a mix of sci fi and paranormal with murder mystery.

Easy to read and kept my interest.

#Switcheroo #NetGalley is the third book in this series, featuring Fran and Ken, private investigators and siblings.
Fran is helping a client locate his birth parents, which should be a typical case for her.
As Fran investigates, she runs into obstacles and things just aren't adding up.
While I enjoyed the story, I found this to be less cozy mystery and more sci-fi than anything else.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for selecting me to read an advanced copy of this book.