The first adventure in Eva Hudson’s enormously popular Ingrid Skyberg series
Ingrid Skyberg joined the FBI to bring one man to justice: the man who abducted her best friend when she was fourteen. It’s been eighteen years and she’s never stopped looking, not for him… or for the friend who has never been seen since.
Now the Secretary of State’s granddaughter has gone missing in London, and it falls to Ingrid to find the teenager. There’s something about girls who disappear from view that gnaws at Ingrid, that makes her care more than she should, that makes her lose perspective and take unnecessary risks.
It’s Ingrid’s first time in London—she’s only in town to train the Metropolitan Police––so she needs some local knowledge. She is reluctantly paired with a suave, good-looking and arrogant secret intelligence operative who leads her through the city’s back alleys and corridors of power. He’s charismatic and dynamic but when his methods become dangerously unconventional, the two of them clash… in more ways than one.
Run Girl sets the scene for Ingrid’s future adventures working out of the US embassy in London. If an American citizen lands in trouble… or winds up dead… or gets accused of a crime they didn’t commit, Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is on their case.
Unlock the thrills and twists of this up-all-night crime thriller series, perfect for fans of gripping mysteries, strong women investigators and any reader who has ever wondered if there’s a female version of Jack Reacher. There is, and her name is Ingrid Skyberg.
Please note: Run Girl is a novella - roughly half the length of an average novel.
PRAISE FOR EVA HUDSON "I was immediately struck by the plotting savvy and grip-factor of Eva Hudson's writing – she is a natural storyteller" - Sophie Hannah "Ingrid is a fascinating character" - James Oswald "Gripped me from the first page " - DS Butler
ABOUT EVA HUDSON After years of enjoying thrillers and police procedurals by authors like Lee Child and Michael Connelly, Eva was inspired to write thrillers herself. In 2011 she won the inaugural Lucy Cavendish fiction prize for her first novel, The Loyal Servant, and never looked back.
Eva Hudson was born and raised in south London. Before taking up writing seriously at the age of 43, Eva worked as a local government officer, singer, dotcom entrepreneur, portrait artist, web designer, project manager and content editor.
In 2011 her first novel, The Loyal Servant, won the inaugural Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize from Cambridge University. The book was also shortlisted for UK TV's People's Novelist Competition.
In 2013, Eva received a terminal cancer diagnosis and this spurred her on to write the book she always wanted to read, a female Jack Reacher adventure. She created Ingrid Skyberg, an FBI agent working out the US embassy in London who's tenacious, resilient and determined, qualities Eva herself had in abundance as she went through treatment. Before she died in 2015, Eva had published four Skyberg books. She also left an unfinished manuscript and notes for future adventures with her partner and editor Jo Monroe who continues to write the series.
For more information, visit evahudson.com and follow Eva on Twitter @Eva_Hudson.
I bought this book for free on Amazon as I decided yesterday I wished to read a cool, short thrilling novella that I could race through within 24 hours.
It is a story about our hero; FBI agent Ingrid Skyberg. She happens to be in London doing some lecturing to uninterested English officers in Scotland Yard about how to handle violence to children cases. The.. she gets a text. Meet me outside and a car is waiting...
This is how our story commences. The "long and the short" of it is that a very important young lady has gone missing and she needs to be found. Plus no one can know about it. To stop the leaking and to get the best woman on the case they ask for Ingrid.
As it was a short book - I read it as having about four main plot points and then built up dialogues and character building and reacting until we got to these, often great scenes.
The supporting cast to Ingrid was highly colourful and interesting so I have to respect Eva Hudson for making me care about these characters within 174 pages. They aren't that complex yet, but this is her prelude to a distinguished series she has established and I will 100% be checking out the rest. Nick Angelis is a charming, mysterious, ex-army officer helping Ingrid on the case and yes, he has a soft spot for her. I won't say too much, but the person behind the missing girl is very clever and throws a lot of false senses around.
It is quite simply written but that is what I needed and it worked well. The pacing of the book was exquisite. The story wasn't predictable, however; with it being a short book they always seem to progress to the right scent straight away. Whether this is the ingeniousness of our hero or a writing device to keep it short and sharp doesn't matter because it was very good plot progression within the medium. The ending was sort of a hoo-ha, the day is saved (I don't think this is a spoiler in these sort of books but if you consider it is then let me know and I will edit it).
I will 100% be checking out the rest of the series. This was a very pleasant surprise. To reiterate, it is free. You would be silly not to at least check it out.
I'm not sure what to say about this 'novella'?? I got about 1/3 of the way thru it, and it was soooo hard to keep my attention. Ms. Hudson uses the GD word a good bit, which I don't see much use in...it's not the F word, but I'd almost rather that than the GD. Also, there wasn't much 'meat' to the storyline. Idk what the actual series consist of, but I found myself reading just to be reading so I could finish the book - not because it was keeping my attention, until I decided that I had a ton of other books I could be reading that I hope I won't be able to put down. So, I put this one down at the 30% mark coz I was wasting my mind and my time. Idk if I'll give the others a shot or not...So many books, so little time!!!
This is a light weight book, a prequel to her later books. It's quite fun, not very thought provoking, not an 'urgent' book. I admire anybody who can complete and sell a novel, believe me that's tough. So I wish Ms Skyberg the best of luck. It won't become a classic, it's not up there with Donnelly, Stark, Westlake, Steinhauer, Coben. But for amusing fun if you like a light-weight detective-verging-on-spy type thing, you will find it fun.
Three agents of the FBI are in London to give a presentation when the woman giving the talk is called out for a phone call and shortly the second woman is also called of the session leaving the lone man to finish up. The women are escorted to a room in the US Embassy and left in a locked room after having all their electronic devices confiscated. One complains loudly about the loss of her phone and the inability to talk with her children back in the states, while the other, Ingrid Skyberg, is quiet and tries to indicate to her compatriot that she should be aware that the were probably being watched. When they are finally freed, Ingrid is kept and the other sent back to the conference. It seems that the Secretary of State is on a delicate mission in France and somehow her 18 year old granddaughter has managed to join her after having a fight with her parents. Now it appears that the granddaughter has managed to elude her private security and has taken off to destinations unknown. Ingrid is teamed with a private security agent and Embassy staff as well as Scotland yard to track down the girl and get her back to France without letting the Secretary know and distract her from the negotiations. With a short time frame to succeed and false trails left by the smart 18 year old they have quite a task ahead of them.
I love this & I can't wait for more. I will be also leaving a review on Goodreads @ Amazon. And letting everyone know about it. So i gave it a 5 Stars.
This eBook was an unexpected treat. Although not a Christian novel, as I usually prefer, this novella was clean and decent. There was some light profanity, in appropriate settings, but none of the F-word or super-offensive stuff so common in today's media and entertainment. There was no sex or graphic violence. Although one character, Nick Angelis, was clearly attracted to the point-of-view character, Ingrid Skyberg, there was none of the usual over-the-top romantic hanky-panky going on. Angelis flirted and tried to impress Ingrid, but he was a gentleman when she resisted his charm and good looks. While the relationship was still open to further development in sequels, the two did not end up getting any more serious than colleagues by the conclusion of the book.
The plot otherwise was interesting. The grand-daughter of the Secretary of State involved in peace talks went missing--having ditched her government-appointed escort. Ingrid, an FBI agent in London, is assigned to track her down before her grandmother, the press, or anyone else gets wind of it. Paired with Angelis, an employee of a private security company connected with the US embassy, Ingrid does her best to follow the scanty leads they have on where the girl could have secreted herself and what she was up to.
Although the detective work often seems secondary to the sometimes adversarial relationship between agents Skyberg and Angelis, the action is fun and fast-paced, as the two have only one day to track down the missing teen. As is typical with novellas, the book ends abruptly, without the satisfying denouement one more often finds in longer books. However, the loose ends are tied up, and the foundation is laid for a series of books about the same character(s).
I recommend this book to anyone who would enjoy a quick, easy read with a touch of suspense and action, without a lot of peripheral nonsense. It won't strain your budget or your brain, but will provide a few hours of entertainment.
Well !!! From zero to hour in one fell swoop ! I hated The Loyal Servant, thought it was terrible and I have had this one downloaded for almost a year and kept putting it off....I'm not sure how that happened. I either got it before the first one I read by her or because I'd deleted the other one I downloaded it in error. Plus I don't usually download a book under 200 pages and this is a little shy of that. Anyway, I thought I'd finally take a look.... I loved it ! A terrific protagonist-I liked her immensely. She was spunky, good at her job AND she has really nice manners which greatly appealed to me. I whizzed through this in a day, helped too by a lack of internet for a couple of nights-(everso liberating) !! It held my interest the whole way through and I'm pleased to see it heralds the beginning of a series which I'll definitely be sticking with. I am sure Angelis will feature in the other stories too-that looks like it will be a very interesting partership, maybe in more ways than one-who knows. I really enjoyed the character of Rachel too-it would be terrific to see her make a reappearance as she was very bright and I liked her a lot-she made me laugh. I did spot a couple of dropped speechmarks and at one point Ingrid mentioned the 18 year old granddaughter when I couldn't see how she knew this then I saw turned used where turning should've been but that was it for errors which was also highly impressive. I was surprised how many differing careers this author has had !! A really varied selection for sure. I'm looking forward to the next in this series.
A great easy and quick read. But interesting too. Ingrid Skyberg - FBI agent is in the UK at a conference when she is left a text message to leave immediately and a car is waiting for her.
she is taken to the Embassy where she is tasked with finding a teenage girl, but this is not just any teenage girl. This is the granddaughter of the Secretary of State.
Time is against Ingrid, and she has a task on her hands to find this girl and find her quickly.
For a short read there seemed to be an awful lot packed into this book.
Well worth reading and a good introduction to a series, I will give more of Eva's books a try in the near future.
A man's-man British agent and a thinks-she-can-do-anything female American agent track and chase an 18-year old girl rendezvouing with her boyfriend. No one else knows and they have no backup because her grandma's doing delicate negotiations and they don't want to "upset" her. As if a governmental agent doesn't know how to be poised and self-controlled during crisis. It's ridiculously hard to catch this kid as she's nobody special but somehow by staying "off the grid" and running super fast, she can evade CIA agents for days.
If you're going to do an action thriller, at least have it make sense.
This book had a good basic storyline and an interesting main character. However, the methods used in the book to track down an eighteen year old runaway in Europe were unorthodox. The book, while interesting, did not have a viable urgency about it that most thrillers do.
I believe this book was more about introducing the characters and setting up the series. It was a fairly good and quick read that kept my interest, but did not thrill me. I expected more twists and turns and surprises and did not get them. Since this is a prequel and a novella, and it has great potential, I will give the next book in the series a chance.
I like Eva Hudson, and this series. Hadn't read the prequel yet, sets the scene for later books nicely. A quick easy read, perfect for summer garden reading in one go!
Things to know upfront: This is a prequel to an ongoing series. The novella was once available to the public but now is only available to those who sign-up for the author's newsletter. There is violence and adult language.
FBI Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is in London to help train the Metropolitan Police Department on child protection techniques. She is called out of the training to help on a case regarding adolescent related to someone high up in the State Department. Will her talents find the young girl or is there more going on than meets the casual eye?
To me this novella had the excitement of a full-length novel. It also provided a wonderful background for the series.
Slow reader here… I just stumble across this book by accident. And I found this prequel to the series on KOBO. So this was a great find me… I like this book. The novella length book introduces Ingrid, an FBI agent currently in London. The United States Secretary of State is in Paris to broker peace talks, and her granddaughter Rebecca had accompanied her after an argument with her parents. I can't wait to see what else is in store for Ingrid. I hear the first instalment is an up-all-night crime thriller. This series maybe perfect for fans of strong female protagonists, thrillers. So today I can say I will read the next installment in the series… Book #1. Give series a try. It appears to be 8 novels in the series so far.
This is an excellent story. Ingrid Skyberg provides intelligence, sensitivity, character and determination to her job as an FBI Agent. She is thrown some curve balls but continues to hit the ball out of the park. Her resourcefulness and instincts enable her to succeed where others might fail.
The character development in the book is excellent as is the non-stop action. Eva Hudson is an excellent writer and you won't be disappointed with the thrills and vivid descriptions of places in this book. 5 stars for sure! And it is a quick read!
My first read by this Author .. A novella which was a kindle freebie ..
Being a #0.5 of the Ingrid Skyberg Series, I wasn't expecting too much - but I was pleasantly surprised .. A good intro to Ingrid & her London adventures - she's a good character & I grew to like her as the book progressed. A quick paced read, lots of action & a satisfactory ending
Would definitely be interested in reading the next instalment
A strong 3.5 - the extra is for the mention of my hometown
Run Girl is a fun book to read. Because of the length of the book, you can finish it with just a few hours of reading. I thought it was a great intro to the series and the characters. I would recommend it to anyone interested in London, government agencies or a strong female lead.
The teenage granddaughter of the Secretary of State has run away from her bodyguards in Paris. She is tracked to London where FUN agent Ingrid Skyberg is tasked with finding her before her Grandmother, who is negotiating a peace treaty, realises she is missing. This novella is a quick read and a good introduction to the character of Skyberg.
Wish I hadn't bothered with this but its been lying in my kindle list for years, Found the plot quite unbelievable and "The Spoiled Brat" will continue being spoiled and indulged. No sympathy with characters. Did read the next novel in this series a number of years ago and there was obviously a reason I didn't buy anymore.
Prequel to a great series. Fast paced and wonderful leading character, Agent Ingrid Skyberg. So now we know how she came to be working in London. The grand-daughter of the Secretary of State (women, of course) sneaks away from her grandmother and is missing in London…. Love the series, looking forward to all of the books in the series. Hopefully there are many many more!!
A fast and quick read, in case you're looking for some groundbreaking thriller then this is not for you. No particular twist and turn out that one can't guess. May or may not read other sequel books.
This is a novella that I received free on my Nook. The Secretary of State is ready to leave for Paris when her teenage granddaughter shows up at the airport and insists that she go along. The girl is rebellious and spoiled by grandma. Then the fun begins!
A good story with a positive attitude chapter to chapter; no foot dragging nor paragraph skipping (to cover a point in the storyline). Amy (GBR) provides a proper British narrative; text to speech.
This a good read that gives you the opportunity to be a part of what's going on. The author has one small chunk in the armor of an excellent story, the grand daughter should never have made the trip.
Unfamiliar with the author, I selected this from a list of deals on book bub. What a nice selection! The story flows smoothly with just enough predictability to make this an uncomplicated, desirable novella. Great for the beach or a cozy weekend of unwinding.
I enjoyed this FBI story; not sure if the real fibbies get to do fun jobs like this but I'm sure it would be a welcome break from the very serious stuff that goes on. I like this author and look forward to reading more by her.
An okay book. A light read for a Sunday afternoon. FBI, Private Security Firm, wayward teenager, powerful American politician-a bit of an improbable scenario, but entertaining in its own way. Not a series I will follow but worth a read.
I really enjoyed this book. It had action,adventure and a hint of romance. I can't wait for the next book of this series. I have to find out what Ingrid does next.