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Pray For Your Life
A surprise birthday cruise for Mitch Cannon’s seventy-year-old mother sets the week in motion.
Mitch had been nominated by his sisters to escort their mom, Mary, on the trip. Feeling railroaded into the task, Mitch is angry, especially since a new case has come up involving a criminal Mitch had a history with, someone who’s just shot three people.
Reluctantly, Mitch goes on the trip, and an uncomfortable rift exists between him and his mother. She knows he didn’t want to go on the Riviera Maya cruise, but they soon find out that their personal problems are the least of their worries.
Unknown to Mitch, the man he’s been after was aware of his every move, and the next six days are something that Mitch, Mary, and most other people would be lucky to even live through.
Mitch had been nominated by his sisters to escort their mom, Mary, on the trip. Feeling railroaded into the task, Mitch is angry, especially since a new case has come up involving a criminal Mitch had a history with, someone who’s just shot three people.
Reluctantly, Mitch goes on the trip, and an uncomfortable rift exists between him and his mother. She knows he didn’t want to go on the Riviera Maya cruise, but they soon find out that their personal problems are the least of their worries.
Unknown to Mitch, the man he’s been after was aware of his every move, and the next six days are something that Mitch, Mary, and most other people would be lucky to even live through.
- GenresThriller
236 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 24, 2022
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About the author
C.M. Sutter
51 books292 followersC.M. Sutter was born in San Jose, California and split time between the sunny California coast and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a senior in high school, she chose Wisconsin as her permanent address. After many years in the Badger State, she decided on a warmer year-round climate to call home and moved south.
Years of progression took her from working in large companies, to twelve years as a massage therapist, and finally, owning a corporation. She has been self-employed for over twenty years.
Ms. Sutter has been writing and self-publishing since 2014 with eleven titles published in a different genre. Because of her deep interest in crime and thriller novels, she took up writing in the police procedural/crime thriller genre in 2016.
Years of progression took her from working in large companies, to twelve years as a massage therapist, and finally, owning a corporation. She has been self-employed for over twenty years.
Ms. Sutter has been writing and self-publishing since 2014 with eleven titles published in a different genre. Because of her deep interest in crime and thriller novels, she took up writing in the police procedural/crime thriller genre in 2016.
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June 16, 2022
Well … I hate it when main characters act foolish and irrational. People makes mistakes - OK that’s something that happens and hopefully it teaches us a lesson. This novel is just one big mistake form start to end.
Mitch Cannon which we have come to learn of in the two previous novels is sent out to hunt a killer who has escaped to Mexico. As we know Cannon is a detective in the homocide department in Savannah. There’s nothing to investigate as the killer of two kids and their mother has been shot and everyone knows who has done it. Nevertheless Cannon is asked by his boss to help tricking the killer to reveal his position while Cannon is on a holliday cruise with his mother. Some time during this Cannon really fucks up and is being captured in Mexico by the killer. And now it get’s really annoying. The best thing Cannon and hos mother can do is obviously to “pray” - as if a god who has put the two in the hopeless situation suddenly should change his mind and let them escape. to add to the unrealistic plot both some agents from Savannah PD and some FBI agents are just running around in Mexico and doing police work as if they were home in US.
The other Mitch Cannon novels so far has been OK and contained some exciting events so you had to stick around to the end to learn how everything adds up. But this one with it’s over religious views and the overwhelming amount of unrealistic events is not on the same level. I would not recommend it unless you really want to know what’s happening in Cannon’s family.
Mitch Cannon which we have come to learn of in the two previous novels is sent out to hunt a killer who has escaped to Mexico. As we know Cannon is a detective in the homocide department in Savannah. There’s nothing to investigate as the killer of two kids and their mother has been shot and everyone knows who has done it. Nevertheless Cannon is asked by his boss to help tricking the killer to reveal his position while Cannon is on a holliday cruise with his mother. Some time during this Cannon really fucks up and is being captured in Mexico by the killer. And now it get’s really annoying. The best thing Cannon and hos mother can do is obviously to “pray” - as if a god who has put the two in the hopeless situation suddenly should change his mind and let them escape. to add to the unrealistic plot both some agents from Savannah PD and some FBI agents are just running around in Mexico and doing police work as if they were home in US.
The other Mitch Cannon novels so far has been OK and contained some exciting events so you had to stick around to the end to learn how everything adds up. But this one with it’s over religious views and the overwhelming amount of unrealistic events is not on the same level. I would not recommend it unless you really want to know what’s happening in Cannon’s family.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 31, 2024
2,5 ⭐️
First of all, I gave this book a pass because it is an easy read and mostly entertaining. The locations in the book are well- described and well written.
The reason I rated this book so low is because I wonder if a lot of thought went into it before writing it. The characters make the most stupid decisions:
1) Mitch mistakenly texting the guy he is chasing. I mean, that is just next level stupid and would never happen.
2) Mateo wanting ransom money FROM THE POLICE?? I mean, he's an infamous drug leader who just got released from prison and is on the run for killing three people AND kidnapping a detective and his mom. He surely wouldn't be that stupid to then go ask the police (???) for money. Why would anyone ever do this and think it would work? He's known for killing everyone that gets in his way, but the detective that locked him up repeatedly in the past gets spared...
The thing that mostly sets me off in this book is how the dialogues are written. This was a problem in book 1 and book 2 as well. Nobody talks like that. The dialogues between police officers are so extremely cringe. Quotes such as: 'Let's throw his ass in jail' or 'His ass should be in jail, where he belongs' are repeated so much and again: NOBODY TALKS LIKE THAT. When in Mexico, the stereotypes are all over the place. Friends of Mateo only get called 'amigos' and every Mexican in the book acts the same way, doing stereotypical Mexican things.
The author really has something here. She clearly knows how to write and establish good settings for the book, but honestly... there should go more thought in decisions made by the characters and dialogues. If you wouldn't say something in real life, then why use it in a book...
Book 1 was worse than this one. book 2 was a big big step up and very promising. Book 3 was a letdown again..
First of all, I gave this book a pass because it is an easy read and mostly entertaining. The locations in the book are well- described and well written.
The reason I rated this book so low is because I wonder if a lot of thought went into it before writing it. The characters make the most stupid decisions:
1) Mitch mistakenly texting the guy he is chasing. I mean, that is just next level stupid and would never happen.
2) Mateo wanting ransom money FROM THE POLICE?? I mean, he's an infamous drug leader who just got released from prison and is on the run for killing three people AND kidnapping a detective and his mom. He surely wouldn't be that stupid to then go ask the police (???) for money. Why would anyone ever do this and think it would work? He's known for killing everyone that gets in his way, but the detective that locked him up repeatedly in the past gets spared...
The thing that mostly sets me off in this book is how the dialogues are written. This was a problem in book 1 and book 2 as well. Nobody talks like that. The dialogues between police officers are so extremely cringe. Quotes such as: 'Let's throw his ass in jail' or 'His ass should be in jail, where he belongs' are repeated so much and again: NOBODY TALKS LIKE THAT. When in Mexico, the stereotypes are all over the place. Friends of Mateo only get called 'amigos' and every Mexican in the book acts the same way, doing stereotypical Mexican things.
The author really has something here. She clearly knows how to write and establish good settings for the book, but honestly... there should go more thought in decisions made by the characters and dialogues. If you wouldn't say something in real life, then why use it in a book...
Book 1 was worse than this one. book 2 was a big big step up and very promising. Book 3 was a letdown again..
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 25, 2022
Spoilers ahead.
A violent Mexican drug criminal is released from prison and immediately goes to shoot his girlfriend and her two kids. With the help of his friend Luis, he escapes to Mexico. Meanwhile Mitch is booked on a Mexican cruise with his Mom. Mitch's boss Royce tries to kill 2 birds with one stone and tasks Mitch to trap him on his trip.
This is my 4th Mitch Cannon book and I have to admit, it's an acquired taste. The plots aren't that great and are a bit simplistic, or amateurish to be blunt. The writing isn't sophisticated but easy to read and follow. There are a few lapses in logic and you have to strain your credulity a bit at times. Everything is done on easy mode. They're my guilty pleasure. OK, that's all the cliches out the way but it pretty much sums up the series and the writing.
There's a bit of unnecessary dialog, like the author will go through the whole gabble of Mitch and his boss getting coffee including thanking each other, instead of just writing that they got coffee. The ending of this book was a bit superfluous too and overly long.
I'm on the last book now and actually looking forward to trying the author's other series to see if they are any better.
Since GR doesn't list the entire 5 books in this series, here they are in chronological order:
Run For Your Life
Fight For Your Life
Pray For Your Life
Beg For Your Life
Fear For Your Life
A violent Mexican drug criminal is released from prison and immediately goes to shoot his girlfriend and her two kids. With the help of his friend Luis, he escapes to Mexico. Meanwhile Mitch is booked on a Mexican cruise with his Mom. Mitch's boss Royce tries to kill 2 birds with one stone and tasks Mitch to trap him on his trip.
This is my 4th Mitch Cannon book and I have to admit, it's an acquired taste. The plots aren't that great and are a bit simplistic, or amateurish to be blunt. The writing isn't sophisticated but easy to read and follow. There are a few lapses in logic and you have to strain your credulity a bit at times. Everything is done on easy mode. They're my guilty pleasure. OK, that's all the cliches out the way but it pretty much sums up the series and the writing.
There's a bit of unnecessary dialog, like the author will go through the whole gabble of Mitch and his boss getting coffee including thanking each other, instead of just writing that they got coffee. The ending of this book was a bit superfluous too and overly long.
I'm on the last book now and actually looking forward to trying the author's other series to see if they are any better.
Since GR doesn't list the entire 5 books in this series, here they are in chronological order:
Run For Your Life
Fight For Your Life
Pray For Your Life
Beg For Your Life
Fear For Your Life
April 3, 2022
Far Fetched
I have enjoyed all of the authors previous books. But this one in my opinion was just to predictable made me just want it to end. I understand fiction is made to entertain. But this is just fantasy. In no stretch of imagination would Mitch and his Mother have survived five minutes alive with Mateo in that jungle. Even though I didn't like this book I'll still buy the next.
I have enjoyed all of the authors previous books. But this one in my opinion was just to predictable made me just want it to end. I understand fiction is made to entertain. But this is just fantasy. In no stretch of imagination would Mitch and his Mother have survived five minutes alive with Mateo in that jungle. Even though I didn't like this book I'll still buy the next.
May 4, 2025
interesting but not believable
Cannon has to be the dumbest detective ever. Who makes such an idiotic mistake by not only texting a message to the person he’s tracking, but offering all the information as to where he’s at to his boss who should know all this or have ways to obtain it. Why send a detective to Mexico who’s on a vacation with his mother to track down a US criminal. It was totally unbelievable. Also, how much coffee can these characters really drink?
Cannon has to be the dumbest detective ever. Who makes such an idiotic mistake by not only texting a message to the person he’s tracking, but offering all the information as to where he’s at to his boss who should know all this or have ways to obtain it. Why send a detective to Mexico who’s on a vacation with his mother to track down a US criminal. It was totally unbelievable. Also, how much coffee can these characters really drink?
April 4, 2022
Pray
And there were a few prayers said in some very difficult times as Mitch and his 70 yr. old Mom were captured and mistreated by drug lords. Another good example of law enforcement agencies working together to rescue them. One question I have is will Devon and Marie ever "get together"?
And there were a few prayers said in some very difficult times as Mitch and his 70 yr. old Mom were captured and mistreated by drug lords. Another good example of law enforcement agencies working together to rescue them. One question I have is will Devon and Marie ever "get together"?
April 2, 2022
Excellent Excellent Excellent Book
Ten stars is not enough for this book it should be at least twenty stars CM is one terrific author I loved this book could not put it down I highly recommend this book to everyone Dorothy Schaefer
Ten stars is not enough for this book it should be at least twenty stars CM is one terrific author I loved this book could not put it down I highly recommend this book to everyone Dorothy Schaefer
April 20, 2022
Loved reading this book!
Book 3 in the Mitch Cannon series is great! Tropical locale, cruise ship, vacation (what's that?), what could go wrong? Am innocent mistake lands Mitch & his mom in serious trouble. Can they get out of harm's way in time?
Book 3 in the Mitch Cannon series is great! Tropical locale, cruise ship, vacation (what's that?), what could go wrong? Am innocent mistake lands Mitch & his mom in serious trouble. Can they get out of harm's way in time?
September 4, 2024
Fantastic Read!
This is 3rd in this series. Pray For Your Life (Mitch Cannon Heat Series Book 3) This book is really good from the start to the fantastic ending. All the books so far in this series are great reads.
This is 3rd in this series. Pray For Your Life (Mitch Cannon Heat Series Book 3) This book is really good from the start to the fantastic ending. All the books so far in this series are great reads.
August 1, 2025
A real nail biter! You'll enjoy this if you like detective books.
The story involves a close family in Savannah. It's entertaining and also riveting ad times. Enjoy' easily read in no time.
The story involves a close family in Savannah. It's entertaining and also riveting ad times. Enjoy' easily read in no time.
March 27, 2022
Another awesome book
I have really enjoyed reading this new chapter in the Mitch Cannon series. It is once again an outstanding book! I hope there will be more to come.
I have really enjoyed reading this new chapter in the Mitch Cannon series. It is once again an outstanding book! I hope there will be more to come.
April 2, 2022
Pray For Your Life
Excellent read….. I loved it!!! Would recommend to others. This book had my heart racing the whole time.
Thank You V. M. Sutter
Excellent read….. I loved it!!! Would recommend to others. This book had my heart racing the whole time.
Thank You V. M. Sutter
April 16, 2022
Loved this adventure!
This was another great book in this series. I love this family, these cops and Gus. I hope there are more stories to come.
This was another great book in this series. I love this family, these cops and Gus. I hope there are more stories to come.
August 13, 2022
Great Read
This book was so good I couldn’t put it down. Very good writing. I am a vivid reader of C. M. Sutter, I am always on the lookout for her next book to come out.
This book was so good I couldn’t put it down. Very good writing. I am a vivid reader of C. M. Sutter, I am always on the lookout for her next book to come out.
August 15, 2022
Mitch Cannon adventure
Just completed this book , a real page turner,keeps you hooked page by page
Another exciting adventure to be collected
Looking forward to the next book
Just completed this book , a real page turner,keeps you hooked page by page
Another exciting adventure to be collected
Looking forward to the next book
September 13, 2022
Pray for Your Life is a real action packed thriller written by C. M. Sutter. I was glued to my seat through this story and was wondering how the wonderful characters were going to escape the evil monsters to return to their family and normal lives. Such a great story filled with all emotions.
I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached to post a favorable response and all opinions are my own. I have rated this story with five stars for meeting my expectations of a wonderful story that I can highly recommend to others.
I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached to post a favorable response and all opinions are my own. I have rated this story with five stars for meeting my expectations of a wonderful story that I can highly recommend to others.
October 21, 2022
#3 of series.
June 24, 2023
tons of action
Well written, all the characters are described perfectly. What an adventure. A must read. Now I’m on to book 4.
Well written, all the characters are described perfectly. What an adventure. A must read. Now I’m on to book 4.
November 20, 2023
Killer on the lose
Another adventure filled thriller. It kept you interested trying to decide if Mom and son would make it out alive.
Another adventure filled thriller. It kept you interested trying to decide if Mom and son would make it out alive.
December 19, 2023
Book 3 of this series. This time, Mitch and his mom go on a cruise to celebrate her 70th birthday. Things don’t go as planned and they get kidnapped by some drug dealers.
December 22, 2024
I don’t even know if this is one ⭐️. It was bad. It took me soooooo long to get through simply because I didn’t want to read it. I don’t recommend. This series is all all alllll done for me now.
January 22, 2025
Exciting and Thrilling!!
Wow! Wonderfully written book (and excellently edited). Will keep you guessing and sitting on the edge of your seat.
Another great read by C. M. Sutter!
Wow! Wonderfully written book (and excellently edited). Will keep you guessing and sitting on the edge of your seat.
Another great read by C. M. Sutter!
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