A Cold Dark Place: FBI Romantic Mystery and Suspense: 1 (Cold Justice®) Paperback – 25 Mar. 2014

I really enjoyed this novel, it’s my first book by Toni Anderson and definitely won’t be my last. I swapped between reading on kindle and listening to the audible recording, which was fab, it had a great pace, good diversity of character voices and the male narator - Eric G. Dove did good female voices without going too much into a falsetto range. Overall the narration really added to the creepy vibe of the novel and help to keep that atmosphere of being on my toes and desperate to find out what happens. I liked the audio narration so much I bought the rest of the series on audible as they are all narrated by Eric G. Dove.As to the story - wow, so much going on and although some of the central character premise seemed incredibly unrealistic, Toni weaves her plot and character development so well it is easy to suspend belief and buy into the narrative of the story. The pacing of the plot unfolded nicely throughout the novel. There was just enough world building to make it believable without getting overly procedural and neither the murder/kidnapping plot and world building got in the way of some great protagonist character development which played out with some great set pieces that also moved along the central plot as well as the developing the relationship between Alex and Mallory. I really bought into Alex and Mallory as a couple, I wanted them to get their HEA, even as for much of the novel I was wondering how the author would achieve that given their polar opposite sides at times.There are a number of plot points to uncover as you read through the book, I guessed quite a few, but this didn’t detract from my enjoyment and there was one I totally missed at the end and one I didn’t quite get right. I liked that I was able to work some of the plot points out as I read. I often have theories going on in the back of my mind when reading and it’s good to see them proved or disproved as you read along. I personally hate thriller/crime novels which are so obtuse you never work out anything until the last 15 pages and in some obscure way it would have been almost impossible to have worked out.Overall this was a rip-roaring yarn with good pacing, interesting, but not obtuse central and supporting plots that helped the character development far outweighed the minor plot holes and unrealistic premise around some characters. I’d definitely recommend it to friends who enjoy thrillers and romance suspense.Looking forward to reading/listening to the next instalment.

A Cold Dark Place by Toni Anderson is the first book in the Cold Justice series. This bookie well written and an absolute thrilling read.Alex and Mallory could not be more suit and yet ill-suited at the same time. The chemistry between them, the connection they have, was so good to read about. You wanted to find a way to work past all the secrets that were bound to come out. But at the same time you couldn’t possibly guess how they would work it out.The story was great as well. With t all relating back to Mallory’s sister it gave an emotional depth that I hadn’t expected.As the first book I have read by this author I found it to be enjoyable and thrilling. I am looking forward to book 2.

Umm.. Wow! I definitely wasn't expecting this book to be this good!This was a Kindle freebie and I'll be honest, my expectations were pretty low (I've had some awful freebie experiences recently). I figured it was something to read on the side of the latest Pamela Clare book... But it was soooo good that it ended up distracting me and I finished this one first!!! Actually it was so amazing that I've just been and bought the next 4 in the series (all 99p on Amazon at the moment - a complete bargain!). The romance was fantastic and believable, the characters were written brilliantly and consistently and the action kept me guessing until the very end. Oh, and for once the writing style was mature, fluid and just a complete pleasure to read.My only issue was that I found the plot slightly confusing and a bit too convoluted... I mean I understood the idea of 'the gateway project' but discovering the link at the end between Mallory's mother, Alex, Mallory herself and the FBI insider? Yeah it just totally confused me!Oh... and I think I might be a tiny bit in love with Alex Parker - he was just perfect! Protective, gorgeous and just so kind and gentle *swoon*

This is a new author to me and was a freebie I thought I'd try out and I'm happy I did. Once I'd finished it, I signed up to her email list and you can download book 2 in the series free as well. So I'm a happy camper. It's a story that is actually full of surprises as you proceed and a few times I was "wowing" under my breath !! So many unexpected things happened I'd never have guessed at. I really liked both Alex and Mallory and I for one was quite happy with the job he was doing. Saved fortunes and works for me, I'd say !! It was interesting, too, that of course, as she mentioned, they didn't need age progression software as Mallory always showed anybody just what her twin would look like now......something I'd not really considered till it was mentioned.I'd say it was perhaps more romance than mystery and I usually prefer it the other way around and personally I'd have lost a few of the sex scenes but it does state it's romantic suspense so I should have expected these. There were a few funny little remarks in it....but I won't repeat them here !Odd words were dropped from sentences-that always pop up in e-books along with apostrophe mistakes, like sheriff's as opposed to sheriffs' although I did make a note upon reading "indiscernible" that it was spelt properly for a change as it's a word that always gets spelled wrong, for some bizarre reason.....I marked it "perfect" !! Some words should've been capitalised like Converse or Buckingham Palace and any way didn't need a space. There was a repeated mistake that made me gasp and that was capitol used instead of capital !! She mentioned hyoid bones, too, at one point but I'm sure we only have one....This aside, I greatly enjoyed it and look forward to the second in the series. Oh, and I do like all the covers in this series as well.