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    Don't Talk to Strangers: A Novel

    Written by Amanda Kyle Williams

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

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    "An explosive read . . . Amanda Kyle Williams sets the classic private eye novel on fire."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child

    Hailed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "one of the most addictive new series heroines," Keye Street is the brilliant, brash heart of a sizzling thriller full of fear and temptation, judgments and secrets, infidelity and murder.
     
    He likes them smart.
     
    In the woods of Whisper, Georgia, two bodies are found: one recently dead, the other decayed from a decade of exposure to the elements. The sheriff is going to need help to track down an experienced predator-one who abducts girls and holds them for months before ending their lives. Enter ex-FBI profiler and private investigator Keye Street.
     
    He lives for the struggle.
     
    After a few weeks, Keye is finally used to sharing her downtown Atlanta loft with her boyfriend, A.P.D. Lieutenant Aaron Rauser. Along with their pets (his dog, her cat) they seem almost like a family. But when Rauser plunks a few ice cubes in a tumbler and pours a whiskey, Keye tenses. Her addiction recovery is tenuous at best.
     
    And loves the fear.
     
    Though reluctant to head out into the country, Keye agrees to assist Sheriff Ken Meltzer. Once in Whisper, where the locals have no love for outsiders, Keye starts to piece together a psychological profile: The killer is someone who stalks and plans and waits. But why does the sociopath hold the victims for so long, and what horrible things must they endure? When a third girl goes missing, Keye races against time to connect the scant bits of evidence. All the while, she cannot shake the chilling feeling: Something dark and disturbing lives in these woods-and it is watching her every move.

    Praise for Amanda Kyle Williams and Don't Talk to Strangers
     
    "There's a new voice in Atlanta, and her name is Amanda Kyle Williams."-Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author
     
    "One of the most addictive new series heroines since Stephanie Plum."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
     
    "Keye Street is my kind of detective-complicated, savvy, flawed, and blessed with a sharply observant dark wit."-Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author
     
    "Both Williams and Street should be around for the long haul, so discover them now from the start."-Alafair Burke, author of Long Gone
     
    "The exciting thing about Williams' writing is how easily she draws the reader into the drama of the story . . . and she adds enough twists and turns to keep the reader off kilter to the very end."-The Huffington Post


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9780307966919
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    • 5/5
      This was the first book I have read in the Keye Street Stranger series but won't be the last. I am always so happy to find a book that I like that has previous ones in the series that I have not read so look on as a future treat. Not having the backstory there are a few spoiler alerts but it doesn't detract at all from Don't Talk to Strangers or even the previous books that I am reading right now.I like the main character who is smart, snarky and flawed and very human. The story holds on and doesn't let go. Wait till you get to then end! But don't cheat.
    • 5/5
      Book 3 of the Keye Street series is the best of the series so far. Read the first two in order to get the background of the characters but this book can also standalone. It certainly was not a disappointment. It was a fast moving and well written story. The pages kept turning for the beginning until the end. You think you know the killer until the surprise twist at the end. Can't wait for the author to complete the next installment. I find her books quite entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Like the first two books in this series I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program. As before I enjoyed the story and found Keye to be an interesting and unusual choice for a main character- how many Chinese-American, ex-FBI, recovering alcoholic private investigators do you honestly see in novels? The story itself was interesting if not a bit dark and creepy. And while the "twist" that comes up towards the end was one I had figured out already (possibly because I have read one too many murder mystery type novels) it didn't ruin it for me and I still thoroughly enjoyed the book.
    • 5/5
      This is the best Amanda Kyle Williams book yet. I really liked the first two, but she keeps getting better and better.Keye Street is a complicated, female protagonist. She is Asian, adopted by a real Southern family. She also has an adopted, gay Black brother. She was a profiler for the FBI before her alcoholism got in the way. Now she works as a private investigator with a computer genius, pot smoking employee and a new secretary. Everyone in the book is a little off, but it all works.Keye is asked to assist Sheriff Ken Meltzer when he finds two bodies deep in the woods along a river. They are two young girls one who was recently killed and another who was killed years before. The local people and other officers are not happy that the sheriff has brought in an outsider. When another child goes missing and the killer starts contacting Keye, she is drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets of the town. Even thought she has just moved in with her boyfriend, she is strongly attached to the sheriff who seems to be the perfect guy. The attraction between these two perhaps speaks of future meetings.This is a great series. All of the characters are believable and there is enough humor in the book to keep it from being too depressing. I am looking forward to the next book.
    • 4/5
      Even though I jumped into this series mid-stream, I had no trouble connecting with the characters and getting caught up in the story and the awesome crime solving skills of P.I Keye Street. It was fast paced and kept me guessing (incorrectly!) throughout. I look forward to going back and reading the two books I've missed.
    • 4/5
      Kept me up late as I raced to finish it. Best volume in this series so far.
    • 4/5
      Keye Street is a private investigator and a former FBI profiler who was fired for her alcohol abuse. She is called to investigate the murders of two 13 year old girls eleven years apart in the small town of Whisper, Georgia. But other than the Sheriff who asked her for her expertise, the rest of the police force and the residents resent her for being there and overturning stones and exposing their secrets. Although the third in a series of stories involving Keye Street, this is the first one that I read. And I enjoyed the character because she is real and human. The t builds and I wondered where it was heading and was always intrigued and startled by its climax.
    • 4/5
      When the bodies of two young girls are found in the woods in a semi-rural area of Georgia, the sheriff's department suspects a serial killer. But they are puzzled by the fact that the girls were kidnapped ten years apart and each was held hostage for six months before being killed. Private investigator and former FBI profiler Keye Street is called in to assist -- and then a third girl goes missing. In this third book in the series, Keye at her smart, quirky and all-too-human best -- fighting against time to save the next victim. A completely absorbing page-turner. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Book #3 in this series picks up where the last one left off. Our two main characters, ex-FBI profiler/PI Dr. Keye Street & Atlanta PD Lt. Aaron Rauser are now sharing Keye's condo. It's early in their relationship but after Rauser's house was flattened in a tornado, it seemed the logical thing to do while he waits out the rebuilding process.
      However, it's been an adjustment for both of them. Keye has come a long way. After being sacked by the bureau, she started her own agency with partner Neil, a cyber/tech guru. He hasn't always used his computer superpowers for good but his skills combined with her brain are a potent combination & business is booming. They've also altered some personal habits. Keye hasn't had a drink in 4 years & Neil now goes outside to smoke a joint.
      Out of the blue, Keye gets a call from Sheriff Ken Meltzer of Whisper, a small town in southern Georgia. The body of a young girl has been found...next to a second one. Both were 13 when they disappeared but one has been missing for 6 months, the other for more than 10 years. Would she consider coming down & having a look?
      Keye feels the old rush. This is what she did at the bureau & she was one of the best at crawling into the recesses of a serial killer's mind before her drinking made her crash & burn out. And maybe a few days out of town will give her & Rauser some much needed personal space. So she packs up & hits the road, leaving Rauser to babysit White Trash, her cat who takes machiavellian delight in scaring the crap out of Hank, his poodle.
      Meltzer, younger & more attractive than she expected, is happy to have her in Whisper but it soon becomes clear he's in the minority. Detectives Tina Brolin & Robert Raymond can hardly walk upright due to the size of the chips on their shoulders & make it clear she's not wanted. They take her arrival as an insult & proof Meltzer doesn't think they can get the job done. For Keye, it's more of the same old same old. She grew up in the south as the adopted Asian daughter of white parents with a gay, black brother so she's kind of heard it all.
      And so her investigation begins. It will take all of her skill as she deals with flawed police work, professional jealousy, small town prejudice, attraction to Meltzer & a twisted killer.
      After studying all the reports, Keye knows the horrors this psycho is capable of inflicting & when a a third girl goes missing, all of them hear the clock ticking as they race to bring one home alive.
      This is a taut, well plotted thriller that keeps you guessing right up to the last few pages. Ms. Williams is skilled in the art of misdirection & there are several credible candidates as you try to identify the bad guy. It's told in first person so we are privy to Keye's thoughts & deductive process as she struggles with the case, a growing attraction to Meltzer & what that says about her relationship with Rauser. We also enter the chilling mind of the killer in several passages as he zeroes in on Keye & tracks her progress.
      The author does a great job of portraying small town life. Everyone knows everyone's business or at least, they think they do. Most cling to the theory of "stranger danger", unwilling to believe someone in their midst could be the monster. Yes, they're friendly but Keye is an outsider in more ways than one & they tend to close ranks around their neighbours.
      The characters are fully drawn & feel like real people. Dialogue is tight & pacing well executed to keep you turning the pages as secrets & lies are slowly exposed. You can feel the mounting tension after the third abduction forces locals to regard their peers with suspicion & entertain the possibility their little slice of America is not the safe haven they've always believed.
      But the heart of this scary story is Keye. She's a smart, complex character who excels at her job while fighting personal demons one day at a time. It's such a pleasure to follow a protagonist who's not a caricature. So many fictional females in this role are portrayed in one of two ways: tougher than nails with major attitude, or impulsive & emotional, prone to making stupid decisions & requiring frequent rescue. Keye, like most of us, is a combination of both.
      The author provides enough of her history so this can be read as a stand alone but I'd recommend reading them in order. Each is a satisfying mystery/thriller with smaller side stories that carry over. You also get the full story on how she & Rauser met & the evolution of their relationship. He's a great character in his own right & plays a larger role in the first two. These are two people that relate to each other in a way that feels authentic & believable & you can't help but root for them.
      All in all, a very satisfying read that gives you interesting characters, a creepy bad guy & well plotted story lines complete with a couple of twists that make your jaw drop.
      I demolished the first two books in record time so thanks to Netgalley for providing the ARC of this one. It did not disappoint. My only complaint is that the phone call Keye receives on the last page now has me waiting impatiently for book #4.
    • 3/5
      I tried this book mostly because Williams' detective, Dr. Keye Street, is based in Atlanta, GA; my home town. In the first few pages Williams was already describing action on a street were I spent a lot of time as a child. I was looking forward to present day descriptions of places I knew 50 or 60 years ago. But then the action shifted to what I believe to be fictional towns east of Atlanta, and that part of my attraction to the book was lost. Despite that, I did enjoy the book. Street, brought on to the case as a consultant, gets the 'business' from the small town detectives. A little overdone, I think. The local sheriff and Street develop a romantic interest. It goes nowhere and was really unnecessary to the plot. And I was not the least bit interested in romance in my serial killer entertainment! Even with these drawbacks I thought the story was well done. A lot of routine police work, none of which actually led to the solution made it seem believable. Towards the end, I began to have an idea who the killer was - I always go for the character in the background, the one you're not told much about. This time I was right, but not without adiversion just before the real answer was revealed. Certainly above average.
    • 4/5
      I have this author's first book in this series, The Stranger You Seek but I have not read it. Now that I have read this book, the third one in the series, I am going back to read it. I really enjoyed reading this book. Keye is great. She is very intelligent and well spoken. The way she assessed a scene or how she pieced together all of the evidence was outstanding. I could not stop being amazed by her. Plus I liked her hard and soft attitude. Since I have not read the other books in this series, I can not compare how Keye's current relationship is to a possible spark with Sheriff Ken in this book. However I am curious to see how it all plays out in the coming books. A quick read with a strong storyline, great characters and a awesome ending.
    • 5/5
      I have read all three books in the series, and liked them very much. Her description of small town life is as well-written as that of the big city. Good character development as well. I will say I figured out the identity of the killer, but I prefer that to books where the ending comes completely out of left field and there is no way even the hero should be able to figure out whodunnit. Highly recommended and I look forward to the next book.
    • 4/5
      Never read a novel by Ms. Williams, but I found that I had a hard time putting this book down. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters of Key Street and Sheriff Meltzer. It has definitely all the characteristics of a good serial killer novel and I would recommend it to anyone.
    • 5/5
      Received this book thanks to LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program and so, so happy. Can't wait to read the other books in the Dr. Keye Street series. This book is a great mystery; Keye is former FBI profiler turned consultant and heads to a small town to help with a serial killer of young girls. Some excellent twists in this novel, including the great set-up of a red herring. Very enjoyable read, so much so that I finished it rather quickly. Will be adding this book to our Little Free Library so others can enjoy. Highly recommend; certainly one of the best books I have read this year.
    • 4/5
      I would recommend this book to anyone who likes books in the police/ serial killer genre. I am not sure i think it is great but it is definitely above average.I have not read the first two books of the series. I really enjoyed this book enough to go back and read the other 2 at some point. One thing I don't like in series is if the future books spoil the earlier books. I am guessing that happened in this case a couple of times but I will not know for sure until I read the first 2.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. This was the first time I had read a book by Amanda Kyle Williams and it won't be the last either. The story itself wasn't anything out of the norm. It's been told many times, serial abductor/killer stalking young girls, former (damaged) FBI agent gets pulled into the case. But, it was really the descriptive style of writing that was so enjoyable with this book.And I have to say that I have never laughed so much from reading a non comical book during a scene involving a puppy and a buttery spread product! Once again the writing style makes that scene.Part of a series but you don't have to read the first two to enjoy this book. I had no issue being a handle on the characters and most of their back story. The ending I must say was very well done and I challenge you to try and figure out how it wraps up. Lots of twists and turns and just when you think it's going on one direction it jukes the other way. Well done.
    • 4/5
      Snagged this book from Early Reviewers and thoroughly enjoyed. I did read a previous book by this author as I remember the main character Dr. Keye Street. The ending is both surprising and rather scary. Williams main character is an unlikely Private Detective given her gender and ethnicity, but she makes it work and makes her an interesting vulnerable character. Highly recommend!
    • 5/5
      I love the Keye Street series, have read them all, and this is a worthy addition. I must say, the first book was the best in my opinion, when we first get to know the ex-FBI agent profiler, drunk hanging on by her fingernails to sobriety but still, one all around bad ass. Yes, I do wish a bit more of that edge was present in the latest book, but it is still quite good. Maybe not enough of her mom in this one either. I love her whole family dynamic, the Asian American southern Keye, her gay black brother, both adopted by an interesting pair of parents. And please, while I like her boyfriend, thing are getting a little too cozy on the home front for my taste.But forgive me. I only complain because I am so vested with these people..lolGood story, great writing, very enjoyable series.
    • 4/5
      Early reviewer book- thank you :)Love all her mysteries. Thy are easy to read, fun, fast and usually keep me guessing who did it.I love that she has a surprise at the end.
    • 5/5
      Another top notch entry in the Keys Street series. They just keep getting be and better. I love that Keys is so human and flawed (like us all). The ending is a shocker right down to the last sentence.
    • 4/5
      I have not read the first two books into Keye Street series by Amanda Kyle Williams, but I'm going to. This third entry in the series is a taut thriller with a mystery at the center. As I think back over reading the book, I realize that Ms. Williams was scrupulously fair with the reader. Once you see the solution, you can see how the clues all lead to the killer, but you can also see how the detective, Keye Street, plausibly took so long to solve the case. The book also works as a thriller, with an against-the-clock plot and a victim in danger. Although I'm not usually a fan of straight thrillers, this book held my interest. In fact, "Don't Talk to Strangers" is a page turner. You will probably do what I did: finish the last third of the novel all in one sitting. Tense, suspenseful, and well written, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat.
    • 5/5
      Wow! Quite the page turner. I suspected every character in the book except for the real villain. Keye Street is at it again with her brilliant profiling and detective skills. She is called to the sleepy south to help solve the murders of two young girls. The sheriff is the only one who wants her input and she puts up with verbal and mental abuse from everyone from the police department to the locals in the diner. This does not slow her down however and the book takes you on a wild ride. Must read.
    • 5/5
      I LOVED this book. Not usually crazy about books set in the summer in the South -- it's where I live, and summer lasts from April until about mid-October here -- but this one blew me away. So much so that I bought the first two in the series this weekend, and am halfway through the first one already!Keye Street is a Chinese-American private detective [formerly of the FBI, but booted because of her drinking problem] living in Atlanta who gets asked to consult on what appears to be a serial murder in small-town Georgia. The murders appear to have taken place ten or more years apart but the bodies have just been found. Despite resistance from the local deputies and other residents [and lust for and from the sheriff], Keye manages to solve the crimes after several wrong turns.The writing kept me enthralled and the plot just zipped along. Really glad to have discovered this new-to-me author!
    • 5/5
      The backstory: I raced through the first two Keye Street mystery novels by Amanda Kyle Williams last fall and loved them both (see my reviews of The Stranger You Seek and Stranger in the Room.) When I visited Atlanta, where the series is set, in February, I treated myself and read the galley on my trip (y'all know I love to read books in the city in which they're set!)The basics: When the Hitichi County sheriff calls Atlanta FBI profiler turned private investigator Keye Street about a possible serial killer, she travels to the lakeside, rural Georgia town to try to solve the murders of two thirteen-year-old girls killed ten years apart and discovered in the same grave in a wooded area.My thoughts: The further along writers get in series, the harder it can be to keep things fresh. In this third installment of the Keye Street series, the first thirty pages are so are a glimpse into Keye's personal and professional life. The reader is treated to her current living situation, a bond jumping case, and office hijinks. When the action shifts to the mystery whose focus carries this novel, I was hooked. The premise is fascinating: a serial killer targeting thirteen-year-old girls ten years apart. As the details of the case unfold, I marveled at its complexity and the spot-on pacing. Williams strikes the perfect balance between the comforts of the previous books and characters and moving the storylines along in a satisfying way. These murders definitely dominate this novel, but the case is interesting and complicated enough that to have it otherwise would be a disservice. This series continues to fly under the radar, but it's among my favorite contemporary mystery series, and I cannot wait until the fourth one is out.The verdict: Don't Talk to Strangers is a riveting procedural and a worthy entry in this excellent series. The case is the focus, and its conclusion is satisfying, but the epilogue delivers a jaw-dropping cliffhanger in Keye's personal life that left me cursing the time until the fourth installment.
    • 5/5
      Keye Street, a Chinese American, has a background in profiling with the FBI. She is now a private investigator and is asked by the sheriff of Hitchiti County Georgia to assist in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of two teenage girls.The bodies of the two thirteen-year-old girls are found off a waterway in the woods. Fishermen noticed a blouse which led officials to the deceased girls. They had been kidnapped and murdered but it was ten years between the crimes.Characters are introduced and studied to determine if they had any connection with the crimes.The sheriff's two leading Criminal Investigators resent Keye's intrusion in the case and she has to deal with their resentment while working to find a killer.Sexual offenders are rounded up and questioned. Various facts about their past comes to light and new crimes are found for some of them.Williams has been compared to Karin Slaughter with good reason. Their female protagonists are gutsy, independent and determined in their search for criminals and in this case, child predators. Williams also has the ability to give enough evidence to suspect someone, only to have that person exonerated and someone else must be found to investigate. To this reader, it seems realistic as if that would actually happen.This is the start of the series and I'm definitely hooked. Even though it's only the start of the year, this is the best book I've read in a while. The suspense was terrific and the surprises kept me at the edge of my easy chair.
    • 4/5
      Don't Talk to Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams is highly recommended third book in the Keye/stranger series.

      Dr. Keye Street's drinking was out of control, which was the impetus for her job loss from the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. After a few years of recovery, she's now a private investigator for her own business: Corporate Intelligence & Investigations. Normally she handles your standard background checks and bail jumpers, but every once in a while she is called in to handle a case that requires her more professional services.

      Keye is living with her boyfriend, Police Lt. Aaron Rauser, in Atlanta when she is hired to help catch a child predator. Sheriff Meltzer contacts her about coming down to help with the investigation into a child predator. In the woods outside the small town of Whisper, Georgia, the remains of two girls have been discovered. Both were 13 when they went missing, but one was abducted 10 years while the other only 8 months ago. Keye must act fast while trying to deal with hostile local law enforcement and prejudice locals to piece together the clues if she wants to find the guilty party before another girl is taken.

      This is the third book in the series started with The Stranger You Seek and The Stranger in the Room. Keye, a Chinese-American who was adopted by a white Southern family, is an outsider who knows how the south works. She's a complex character - flawed, mouthy, gutsy, but clever, resourceful and smart too.

      Williams does an excellent job allowing the tension to build in the investigation and provides several twists and turns to keep your attention. This is a well written thriller that won't require reading the first two in the series in order to follow the action, but it never hurts to read them.

      While I truly enjoyed this book, Keye's sort of mouthy, tough demeanor, as well as her colleagues, weren't totally to my liking. As a character, though, she's a great edition to the genre and this is a series with legs. Certainly the ending lets you know there will be another book, hopefully soon.

      Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Random House for review purposes.


    • 5/5

      In a combination of suspense and mystery, the latest Keye Street novel finds the former FBI super-star profiler trekking through the backwater of Georgia where the bodies of two twelve-year-old girls were discovered, one who had been missing for the last decade.

      A timely release, only a year after Ariel Castro was discovered hording teenage girls in his urban home in Ohio, the subject matter is so repulsive yet one that we find ourselves pulled into despite the banal evil it represents, probably in the sense of rooting for the survivors, and Williams taps into that vein.

      While Street is assisting the sheriff with his investigation, she becomes aware that, at least for other members of the department, she is stepping on toes, an unwilling recruit in a small town world.

      A third girl goes missing during the investigation, a pattern is broken, and the killer shows his hand. A door-to-door search is carried on in the county, scouring all the sex-offenders until one by one, an alibi is produced, but can they be believed? Someone is telling lies, hiding secrets. For the local people it was enough knowing that one of their own has committed these crimes. That someone in the community is responsible for the heinous crimes perpetrated on these middle school girls. Is it the teacher, the grocery store clerk, the pastor, or perhaps even someone closer to the girls, a family member? No one is afforded the luxury of a pass, they all come under scrutiny.

      As time runs out, Williams weaves an electrically charged plot, sinister and evil, one jolt after another, keeping the reader amped. In the end, the shock is a charge hard to accept. If real-life events have you wondering how well you know your neighbors, then this read will be a chart-topper for you.

    • 5/5
      This is a great book full of twists and turns that keeps you guessing. There is enough romance to make it interesting. The reader on this one is a five star. I enjoyed the book.
    • 5/5
      (I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. None of my review is a direct quote from the book per publisher’s request.)

      Well I’ve found my newest series to read! Unfortunately, this was the third book in the series. I plan on going back and reading the first two and then reading this one again when it comes out. Since I haven’t read the first book in the series, I was not introduced to Keye as much as she showed up and started doing things. Within the first 20 pages, though, I found out more about her through conversations and off handed comments. Other than not getting a full description of her at first, the book had no flaws for me.

      The writing made the book interesting. Even if nothing was really going on, I knew that something would be happening any minute which made it hard to stop reading. I found myself stuck on the story when I wasn’t reading and I will probably be stuck on it until I read the first book in the series. The writing felt like a tease. I felt like I knew who the killer was and then all of a sudden things would change and I would have to change everything that I thought I knew. That kept me reading. When I did find out who the killer was, I was shocked. I had my ideas of who it was but I was not expected who it was. My jaw literally dropped. I was so surprised. So yeah, the writing was A 10/10.

      The characters were interesting. I love books that never use the adjective “perfect” for a character. I want characters to have something that I don’t like. I want characters to have flaws. I want characters to make me miserable. I want characters that make me happy. I want characters that make me feel. I had that in this book. Even characters that aren’t main characters but do show up once in a while. Characters that in a few months I will remember how they made me feel but I won’t remember their names. So many characters made me feel something, whether it be anger, happiness, sadness, nervousness. When the characters are written like they are people, I get a lot more out of this book. I got a lot out of this book. Keye is a great main character. A great person to see the book through. She has her faults, and we never forget about them, but she is still a likable character. I’m excited to read more books with Keye.

      The plot was very promising from the start and didn’t break the promise. It’s a sad story and it was hard to read at times, but it was intense and had so many possibilities. Of course with a plot these this, there might be holes where nothing is happening and the book gets a tad bit boring, but Don’t Talk To Strangers never bored me. I was never skimming or wondering when a “good part” was coming because the whole book was a good part.

      All the things that I look for in a book were here and exceeded what I expected of it. The writing was spectacular and gripping. The characters were real and relate able. The plot was exciting and executed well.

      The only tip I would give someone wanting to read this book is to read the first two beforehand. As I mentioned, I did not and they do mention parts of the first two books. There were no spoilers, but it was a tad confusing at first. I do highly recommend this book. I’m very excited to read the first two and I hope there is a fourth.

      (Again, this was giving to me through Netgalley by the publisher for an honest review. None of my review was a direct quote from the book.)
    • 5/5
      I recieved a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review OH MY GOOOODNESSSSS………I’m officially in love with Amanda Kyle Williams….. LOVE LOVE LOVE her!I guess I should have started this series from the beginning, but I stumbled across this book on netgalley and read it before I realized it was a series….BUT I LOVE ITKeye Street is a very smart in the job that she does, and when the Sheriff from another county call for her help, she just cannot resist. 2 girls have been kidnapped and their bodies have just shown up. For a small town in Georgia, the sheriff is not use to this kind of crime.The reality of these crimes are really hitting the locals because Keye is uncovering a lot of details. Everyone thinks some stranger came in and hurt these girls, but maybe just maybe they may be wrong.Is this a work of a serial killer that everyone knows? Is this a stranger? Her presence in the town is a instant disapproval by the local detectives and is also viewed as a threat. Can Keye figure out what happened in time? Can she save another innocent little girl?? The twists and turns are so good in this book I could not put it down.Read the book and find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Now I have to go pick up the first book in the series and fall in love all over again.