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Review: Even When You Lie by Michelle Cruz


Blurb from Goodreads:
Reagan Reyes hunts other people’s secrets. A former intelligence officer, she’s currently an in-house investigator for pricey uptown criminal defense attorney Cade McCarrick. The firm forbids in-house romances, but Reagan and Cade are firmly hooked up. Their love—and their agreement never to lie to each other—is the only truth they have in their world of subterfuge and betrayal.

That agreement is quickly broken when a mysterious woman leaves an envelope for Cade and is soon discovered dead. The envelope’s contents aren’t connected to any of Cade’s current cases, but Reagan discovers a connection to a brutal crime that happened outside a nightclub—and an even more ominous link to the dead woman.

This is a case that goes way beyond the cops. As she digs deeper into Dallas's sordid underbelly, she’s completely on her own—and there’s a killer who’s bent on eliminating her at any cost.

This pulse-pounding romantic thriller offers a fresh new take on big-city crime, from a dazzling and exciting new voice in the genre.
 
Romantic suspense is my favorite genre but I rarely find books that meet this niche for me.  They are either too heavy on the suspense or too heavy on the romance but rarely a good combination of the two.  This one was a bit lackluster on both counts but I still enjoyed it.  I wish there was a bit more suspense and a bit more romance.... both hovered in the book and it felt more like just waiting for the other shoe to drop.  That said, this was enjoyable and a quick read. 

Even When You Lie comes out next week on March 21, 2023 and you can purchase HERE.  
It's summer in Dallas, sticky and sweaty, and I try to ignore the immediate perspiration rolling down the small of my back. Protest season, my granddaddy calls it, with the blithe dismissiveness of a white man who has never had to march for a goddamn thing in his life.

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