Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

Into the Deep
by Colleen Coble

ISBN-13: 9781401688585
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Released: April 8, 2013

Source: Free book.


Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
A local scientist misses his son's birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer's patient goes missing and his home is ransacked.

Bree Nichols and her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Samson, pitch in to help investigate the events disrupting their small community. But new discoveries soon throw her shaky love life into tilt, dredge up her painful past, and threaten her family. Bree must dive deep for the faith to keep going, the strength to defend those she cares about, and the courage to keep her fearful heart open to love.


My Review:
Into the Deep is a Christian suspense novel with some romance. It's the third novel about Bree, and it spoiled some events from previous books. I'd recommend reading them in order.

So previous books established how much Bree loves her dog and how tuned in she is to him even when not technically working SARs. About a third of the way in, a man tried to abduct the dog in front of the Sheriff's house only to be seen by an adult and scared away. Bree swore to never let her dog out of her sight again. Yet then she repeatedly sent her young son and the dog out by themselves without even bothering to check on them. I couldn't believe it. Worse, one time her dog tried to indicate trouble to Bree, and she totally ignored it. I dropped a star off my rating simply because this seemed so out of character.

The main characters were complex and generally reacted realistically to events. There was so much going on, at times it felt like the author tried to pack too much in. Both Bree and her best friend had relationship troubles on several fronts. They were largely self-induced in Bree's case as she didn't handle several relationships very well and had to learn not to run away from close relationships. The mysteries were missing dogs, dead fish, and who's targeting the people working at the new lab. Kade initially blamed Bree for not totally committing to him when he never indicated that's what he wanted with her. Several people got on his case about that. They ended up a good match since they grew in how they handled relationships.

Bree's a new believer in Christ and sometimes struggled with how that works out in real life. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable mystery/suspense novel.


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