Deep Dark Night by Steph Broadribb

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Publication date - out now!

Publishers - Orenda Books

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The fourth book in the award-winning Lori Anderson series, Deep Dark Night sees daring bounty hunter and single mother Lori Anderson journey from Florida to Chicago to take down a notorious crime family. Published to coincide with International Women’s Month, it will see the full series rebranded a fresh, contemporary new look.

Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their mission: to entrap the head of the Cabressa crime family. The bait: a priceless chess set that Cabressa is determined to add to his collection.

An exclusive high-stakes poker game is arranged in the penthouse suite of one of the city’s tallest buildings, with Lori holding the cards in an agreed arrangement to hand over the pieces, one by one. But, as night falls and the game plays out, stakes rise and tempers flare.

When a power failure plunges the city into darkness, the building goes into lockdown. But this isn’t an ordinary blackout, and the men around the poker table aren’t all who they say they are. Hostages are taken, old scores resurface and the players start to die.

And that’s just the beginning...

Review

This is a high-stakes, high octane, on the edge of your seat thriller! It’s action-packed, has nail-biting tension, you can’t put this book down once ‘lockdown’ occurs, and has all the hallmarks of a great revenge story.

Right, now all the cliched language has been used to describe this book and it’s narrative let’s get into the nitty gritty of this review. This was the first book I have read in this series and I do think it would be best to have read the previous three. There are too many references I wanted to know about. However, the main narrative of the story definitely can standalone. It’s basically a revenge tale that Lori gets mixed up in and has to survive. But, there is a strong sense of survival in both Lori and JT, that is based on an immense love for each other and their daughter!

I have to admit I don’t know a lot about bounty hunters and what their jobs entail but I’m sure it’s doesn’t involve circumstances like this but who knows! Although certain sections of the story i.e. poker game, FBI involvement feel familiar they definitely haven’t been put together in this way before. Plus the method of getting down from that penthouse - oft. I’m never looking at a fire escape in the same way!

I would definitely encourage you to read this book - it’s brill. I am now off to read the first three - see you in a bit!

Author Bio.

Steph Broadribb was born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. Most of her working life has been spent between the UK and USA. As her alter- ego - Crime Thriller Girl - she indulges in her love of all things crime fiction by blogging at crimethrillergirl.com, where she interviews authors and reviews the latest releases. She is also a member of the crime-themed girl band The Splice Girls. Steph is an alumni of the MA Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University London, and she trained as a bounty hunter in California, which inspired her Lori Anderson thrilliers, She lives in Buckinghamshire surrounded by horses, cows and chickens. Her debut thriller, Deep Down Dead, was shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader Awards in two categories, and hit number one on the UK and AU kindle charts. My Little Eye, her first novel under her pseudonym, Stephanie Marland was published by Trapeze Books in April 2018.