Tracking the Tiny Target by Connie Queen

Tracking the Tiny Target
by Connie Queen

ISBN-13: 9780369729163
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense
Released: May 23, 2023

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
When a three-year-old boy is kidnapped, deputy sheriff Chandler Murphy and his search-and-rescue K-9 partner are on the case. And when the child’s mother, Bristol Delaney, insists on helping, he can’t turn her away. But someone is dead set on stopping the investigation. Can Chandler guarantee Bristol’s safety and rescue the missing child before the trail goes cold?


My Review:
Tracking the Tiny Target is a suspense novel. This read like an action movie, so everything was a little over the top and not very realistic. For example, Chandler was so injured that he could barely walk but then was in yet another truck crash, hopped out, and was just fine from that point on. Previously stated information sometimes changed to make things more dramatic, like a hole described as 2 foot deep suddenly became at least 3 or 4 foot deep. Some things were never explained, like how Bristol ended up in that hole or where the specialized vehicle and supplies came from for the bad guy to use. It's not like the bad guy knew she'd find him while he was in that area and valuable supplies wouldn't have just been abandoned there. Anyway.

Bristol got out of an abusive marriage and was very independent. She was going to find her son, not just wait for the police to find him. She told Chandler this, but he kept being surprised to find that she wouldn't do as told (stay home and rest) thus making protecting her harder. Bristol thought it sweet that he wanted to protect her (rather than abuse her) and was considerate, but they had no romantic thoughts until about two-thirds of the way in. Suddenly, at the very end, both decided that they were in love after 48 hours together. It felt like the "romance" was shoved in at the end. I liked both characters, but they didn't even work together very well as a team so I wasn't rooting for them to get together.

Chandler wasn't a serious Christian but liked that Bristol was a Christian. The main characters prayed for help on occasion. There was no sex or bad language.


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