Review: You Can Die by Rebecca Zanetti

Author: Rebecca Zanetti
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It's an especially deadly winter in the Pacific Northwest, as rising star FBI profiler Laurel Snow hunts down a serial killer with a chillingly bitter M.O., in New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti's edgy thriller . . .

Men are dying in the Pacific Northwest, their bodies found near churches, charities, and counseling centers--each with valentine candy hearts shoved down their throats. They're good men with families and community ties--or so they seem until Laurel Snow and her team begin to investigate. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when the father she's never met, a former pastor, turns up among the dead.

Now, besides solving her father's murder, Laurel is on the hunt to discover the truth of his past. Complicating things is Laurel's troubled half-sister, Abigail, a brilliant sociopath determined to prove that they've both inherited their father's malignant narcissism.

Assisting Laurel is Washington Fish and Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers, a dangerous loner whose reliance on gut instinct puts him at odds with Laurel's coolly analytic approach. But the choice may be moot when the killer hones in on Huck's own dark secrets--putting him and Laurel squarely in the crosshairs.

You Can Die is the third book in the Laurel Snow series. Being the third book in the series, I would not advise reading this one first.  It spoils a LOT of events from the first two books. In this one, men are being murdered and each has a candy heart shoved in their throats.  Its up to Laurel to find the killer before it's too late.

This has quickly become a favorite series of mine.  I really love the characters.  Laurel is such a breath of fresh air with the way she looks at the world.  I have enjoyed watching her grow and make friends.  I also love her growing relationship with Huck.  It's really adorable and full of surprises.  The msytery here was a good one. I didn't call the ending. As with the other books, there were a lot of twists and turns.  I definitely recommend this one as well as the series.  I can't wait for the next one.