Review: Deadly Dance – Dee Davis

Deadly Dance by Dee Davis
Series:  A-Tac #5
Release Date:  March 27, 2012
Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing
Page Count:  400
Source:  Provided by Publisher
Buy the book at: Amazon 

As the intelligence officer for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Hannah Marshall is used to working behind the scenes. But when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah finds herself in the middle of the action, falling in love while racing to outwit a sadistic mastermind. ”
A KILLER CLOSES IN
After the death of her A-Tac partner, Hannah doubts everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty. When handsome Harrison Blake joins the team, she’s reluctant to trust him – or to act on her intense attraction to him. Then Hannah receives a podcast of a gruesome murder, and the only person who can help her find the killer is Harrison.
Harrison has spent years trying to hunt down the cunning monster who killed his sister. Now investigating with Hannah, he faces a shocking possibility – his sister’s murderer has resurfaced. As the danger escalates, Hannah and Harrison grow closer, the desire simmering between them ignites. And when Hannah disappears, Harrison has only one chance to save the woman he loves.

If you haven’t read any of the A-Tac books before, then you don’t know about the secret branch of the CIA that masquerades as college professors by day and bad ass agents trying to save the world all the other times.  It’s a premise the works and has me needing to go back and read books 2-4 to catch up on what’s been happening with the team.

This installment has intelligence specialist Hannah Marshall and IT specialist Harrison Blake smack dab in the middle of a copycat serial killer taking young co-eds tied to Hannah and torturing and murdering them similar to the way Harrison’s twin sister was killed by the Cyber Killer in Texas.  Soon they discover that those responsible for the copycat killings are part of the Consortium that is trying to out A-Tac, but even worse, they have drawn the real Cyber Killer out of hiding…and he’s bent on revenge!

As the team scrambles to figure out who is behind the murders, Hannah and Harrison grow closer.  They both have lived through horrendous tragedies which seems to draw the two wounded souls together.  While at first they try and play off what’s happening between them as a “moment of need”,  they soon find that they need each other more and more.  As a sounding wall or to soothe their fears.  They’re both scared and don’t really know how to deal with the feelings they have for the other, but when Hannah’s drawn into the Cyber Killer’s plans they both understand how much they love the other.

This was heart-stopping suspense and one that kept you guessing who was actually involved until the moment the team made the discovery themselves.  From the very first paragraph I was engaged and couldn’t put the book down!