Broken Souls

by V.E. Avance

Detective Rachel Carrington is not your average detective. With her outspoken nature and her bad cop routine, Detective Carrington is not making friends anytime soon and that’s what the Pine Valley Police Department needs when bodies of pregnant women are being found in the woods surrounding the quant little town.
Detective Carrington and her partner, Detective Anderson, specialize in endangered-missing. A large percentage of their missing cases turn into murder cases; and this case is no different. Five women turn up missing while four of them are found dead in the woods. Rachel and Daniel are against the clock when the fifth victim is reported missing. Will they find her before her and her unborn child become another victim of this terrifying serial killer; dubbed The Broken Souls Killer?

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2018

About the author

V.E. Avance grew up in Central California. She is a survivor of both child abuse and domestic violence. Instead of allowing her circumstances to define her, she has risen above and beyond. Though it hasn't always been an easy road, she chose to fight and struggle to pull herself from the depths of depression and anxiety. Though she cannot change the past, she is solely in charge of her future and refused to continue down the path of self-destruction that her abusers instilled in her.

On the Edge series was developed out of her strong will and determination. At the time the books were written, past events were haunting her every thought. She, like her main character, was falling down a rabbit hole. With every word she wrote, she was able to pull herself out of that hole. Now that Abby's story is done, V.E. Avance is on solid ground herself.

Reviews

[Sinfunni · Rating 1 out of 5]

A bratty, immature detective with a chip on her shoulders overcompensates for being female in a male dominating profession. She only wants to show a caricature of a male cop. No one must know that her stomach is weak which makes crime scenes a challenge. She is brash and abuses her badge to jump the line at a coffee shop because she needs her coffee or her seat at the bar she frequents. She drinks alcohol too frequently and ends up in bed with a FBI agent who dares to try to treat her as a woman, demonstrating that chivalry isn't dead and she acts rejects his efforts time and time again. Her partner throws tantrums and pouts when he does get to play the game the way he wants everyone else. Throughout this read I had to fight the urge to skip ahead to end my survivlm