A great new thriller series featuring FBI agent Sandra Vos , a trained negotiator who intervenes in hostage situations.
In this book the reader gets to know a bit of her back story, how her teenage twin brother had been killed in this type of crime. The book starts with her negotiating with a hostage taker in a pharmacy which really serves to set the scene. The reader is able to see how negotiators work, using empathy and keeping a cool head in difficult situations.
However before she can celebrate the safe end of the siege she discovers that her own teenage daughter has been kidnapped and she is in a race against time to get her back with the added problem of having to face her own past demons along the way. The man who murdered her brother many years earlier.
This was a fast paced roller coaster of a read with a very strong female protagonist which I really liked. The setting was DC, a city I know well as my son lives there so I was able to picture some of the locations, particularly the Georgetown river front. The authors was very good at settling the scene.
It didn’t take me long to finish the book as it was easy to read and moved at a very quick pace. I certainly felt I wanted to read more about Sandra Vos and her team when I reached the last page.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my advance copy.

Sandra’s twin brother Sam was murdered when they were kids by Darrell who held Sam and a few others hostage. 33 years later Darrell was denied bail. Now as an adult, Sandra works as a negotiator for the FBI. Her job causes some people to want revenge against her and this results in the kidnapping of her daughter, Olivia. She has a limited amount of time to get the kidnappers what they want or her daughter’s life is on the line.

Gavin’s hostage situation was a great start to the story. Sandra being a negotiator that works on the case of her missing daughter made this story really interesting. She is an incredible negotiator and stops at nothing to save her daughter. I liked how the story was narrated by Sandra and the captors of Olivia. The story flowed smoothly. It was frightening not knowing whether the capture would hurt Olivia especially during his POV and reading his malicious thoughts.

There were a few things I didn’t like such as how multiple times throughout the story information that was already provided is repeated by the narrator of the story. The job titles of the characters that work in law enforcement were stated then the author has a detailed description of what that job is. Both of these things that are present in the story are redundant and unnecessary due to the reader being able to understand the first time something is explained and the characters job titles don’t really need to be explained in that much detail. Sandra’s relationship with Eric didn’t feel genuine and felt like a filler for the story that didn’t add much to the story. It was a bit unrealistic but still a good story.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Review to come on publication day. Suffice it to say that now is the time to get in on the ground floor of a new, exciting mystery thriller series with a strong female main character.

What a great start to a new series from Carolyn Arnold. Sandra is an FBI agent determined to keep her brother's killer in jail when he is up for parole. What happens following the parole hearing is nothing short of a parent's nightmare. But Sandra and her friends will stop at nothing to bring about a positive ending.
Love these new characters. The plot is captivating from the start, fast paced, and has just enough action to make it exciting to read. Highly recommend. Already looking forward to Book 2.
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Save Her Life by Carolyn Arnold. The first book in the series, with Sandra Vos who is a FBI Special Agent and hostage negotiator. During the narrative much is learned about Sandra's personal and work relationships and her past. Interesting to learn of some of the negotiating protocols and how they are utilized. Her working relationship with Brice is scrappy and it will interesting in finding out how it evolves. Looking forward to the next book in the series.
Thank you to the author, Bookouture, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

This is a great book! Fast paced, suspenseful, engaging story line all wrapped up into one book! Well developed characters with plenty of intriguing snippets to capture your attention! You will be staying up late to finish it!

This book was fab. Our main FMC is Sandra, who is an FBI negotiator. We find out early on she lost her brother to a hostage situation many years before and needs to keep his killer behind bars. The story develops from there and is fast paced with you wanting to read on to find out what happens.

A new series from Carolyn Arnold,featuring hostage negotiator Sandra Vos. This case becomes personal when her daughter is kidnapped. Fast paced and exciting.

I am a fan of Carolyn Arnolds books and looked forward to reading Save Her Life and getting to know more about Sandra Vos, a FBI hostage negotiator. The story begins well and really hits the ground running introducing Vos as a likeable and determined character. I think the authors writing is engaging and the plot is good - although I do think Vos being allowed to work a case that is so personal to her is unrealistic. The author brings suspense and mystery to her books and Carolyn Arnold drew me in straightaway and held my attention and interest all the way through. The glimpses into Vos home and personal life are good and I really liked the ending. I think if you like FBI/crime procedurals this is for you and I'd recommend it.

3.5 stars

New series by Carolyn Arnold. It was a solid read, but nothing earth shattering. I will most likely read book 2 in the series to see how the characters develop.

Thank you #netgalley and #bookouture for the eARC.

That was a wild ride. I do like that you know what is going on and it is more of a how far will a mom go to protect her daughter book, but the support she gets is amazing and the ending is perfect.

Wow! What a great start to a new series! Sandra Vos is having to relive a bad experience as she testifys against early parole for the person who is responsible for the death of her twin brother Sam. From there, she is called to a hostage negotiation.
A few days later, her daughter is kidnapped. Who and why are the first big questions.
This was a very fast paced read. I didn't want to put it down!
Looking forward to more
Thanks to the author and Netgalley for the advanced copy

1st. Book in series about female FBI hostage negotiator. Previous life experiences and loss have influenced her career path and she has to bring all her professional and personal skills together when the life of someone close to her is threatened. The plot and character is interesting from the perspective of a calm, calculated & logical approach needed to desculate conflict and negotiate in hostage situations . That is reflected in the pace of the action which is a steady build up to the final conclusion as opposed to fast paced all out action.
There will be lots of scope to develop the main character and varied hostage situations further in subsequent books. The motivation or reasons for hostage situations arising was varied enough in this book to make further plot lines promising. It will be interesting to see how how the book develops the other characters who are featured and their own back stories or personal situations..

Sandra Vos is a FBI hostage negotiator whose daughter has been kidnapped. This book kept me on the edge of my seat and I didn’t want to put it down. I’m happy to read that this is the start of a new series and look forward to more about Sandra and her colleagues.

Save Her Life ( Series 1 ) by Caroline Arnold


I've read Caroline Arnold before and saw,this and really looked forward to reading it. I was not wrong and it is,a great start to a series.
This was an edge of your seat, thrilling novel
FBI agent Sandra Vos is a hostage negotiator and it gets personal when her daughter is kidnapped and she must break all the rules and fight to get her back home.
Excellent.

FBI agent Sandra Vos is a hostage negotiator and it becomes personal when her own daughter is kidnapped. She stops at nothing to get her child back and will break any and all rules to get her there. This is well written and easy to read. I absolutely loved reading this book.

Thanks to Carolyn and NetGalley for allowing me to read Save Her Life before the publication date.

Sandra Vos is an FBI Special Agent and a negotiator. She is called to relieve the first negotiator at a store where the customers are being held hostage.
This is a sensitive issue for Sandra and the author uses this incident to give the reader insight into Sandra’s childhood, marriage and career.
On arrival, she encounters a testosterone fuelled atmosphere when the officer in charge of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team is determined to use physical force to bring the incident to a close.
Sandra remains calm on the surface as she puts her case for continuing to negotiate with the Hostage Taker.

Learning that her 16 year old daughter, Olivia, has been taken, Sandra finds herself trying to fill two roles as an investigator and a mother. The presence of Olivia’s father, Nolan Copeland, adds to the pressure.
The working relationship between Vos and her colleague, Brice Sutton, is edgy and he seems to be a bit of a marmite character.

For the first book in the series, it is a page turner.

This was a really interesting and thrilling novel and a good way to start what I assume will be an on-going series. FBI agent Sandra Vos is a hostage negotiator and it becomes personal when her own daughter is kidnapped and she must break all the rules to get her back.

Definitely a series I will start to follow

Save Her Life is a decent thriller, although the plot is fairly linear and there's little that couldn't be predicted. FBI agent Sandra Vos, a hostage negotiator, becomes the target when her daughter is taken. The kidnapper soon makes contact anf=d the reasons behind the crime are revealed. Sandra has to race against time to save Olivia.

The pace is fast and the process feels believable, although the latitude given to Sandra to run a case so close to home feels a little unrealistic. But suspending disbelief and enjoying the chase makes this a worthwhile read.

A great character getting her own series, after being a bit player in some of the author's other books. We find out that Sandra's twin brother was killed in a hostage situation and the impact that has had on her life and choice of career. She is now a negotiator for the FBI and the book begins with her dealing with a hostage situation and we find out how she deals with that. Then she finds out her own daughter has gone missing and has to use all of her skills and experience to piece together what has happened and who has taken her. We discover more about her personal and work relationships, setting her up as an interesting character and I look forward to future books.