Justice Mission by Lynette Eason

Justice Mission by Lynette Eason ISBN-13: 9781335232014 Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense Released: April 2, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from NetGalley:
After K-9 unit administrative assistant Sophie Walters spots a suspicious stranger lurking at the K-9 graduation, the man kidnaps her—and she barely escapes. With Sophie’s boss missing and someone determined to silence her, NYPD officer Luke Hathaway vows he and his K-9 partner will guard her.


My Review:
Justice Mission is a romantic suspense novel. It appears that this series will have a ongoing murder that they're trying to solve since the murder case was still open at the end of this novel. Sophie witnesses a stranger putting something on the podium right before the NYPD K-9 graduation. When she asks what he's doing, he grabs her as a hostage. She manages to get free, but the man is intent on killing her from that point forward. Luke is a police officer with a cadaver detection dog, so obviously he finds a body. He's also determined to be Sophie's bodyguard until they stop the man who is after her.

While the story was suspenseful due to the urgent search for a missing man and the danger to Sophie and Luke, some parts didn't seem realistic to me. For example, they had access to ballistic vests yet no one gave one to Sophie. Luke simply used his body as a shield. (Bullets can go through people, and we're not told that he's wearing a ballistic vest, so I wondered just how useful and how safe he was each time he did this maneuver.)

Sophie and Luke are kind, caring people and competent at their jobs. I understood why they were attracted to each other, though the romance was rushed. They barely knew each other at the beginning of the story and fell in love over a matter of days, ending with a marriage proposal. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this suspense novel to fans of K-9 stories.


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