Keri Locke Mystery Bundle: A Trace of Death (Book #1), A Trace of Murder (Book #2), and A Trace of Vice (Book #3)

A Keri Locke Mystery

By: Blake Pierce

Narrated by: Elaine Wise

Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense.

A bundle of books: #1 (A Trace of Death), #2 (A Trace of Murder), and #3 (A Trace of Vice) in Blake Pierce’s Keri Locke Mystery series! This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient bundle.

In A Trace of Death (A Keri Locke Mystery, Book 1), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found. Still obsessed with finding her, Keri buries her grief the only way she knows how: by throwing herself into the cases of missing persons in Los Angeles. A routine phone call from a worried mother of a high-schooler, only two hours missing, should be ignored. Yet something about the mother’s voice strikes a chord, and Keri decides to investigate. What she finds shocks her. The missing daughter - of a prominent senator - was hiding secrets no one knew. When all evidence points to a runaway, Keri is ordered off the case. And yet, despite pressure from her superiors, from the media, despite all trails going cold, the brilliant and obsessed Keri refuses to let it go. She knows she has but 48 hours if she has any chance of bringing this girl back alive.

In A Trace of Murder (A Keri Locke Mystery, Book 2), encouraged by the new lead that has landed, the first in years, Keri Locke pursues it with all that she has, determined to find her daughter and bring her back alive. Yet Keri, at the same time, receives a phone call from a frantic husband, a famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who reports that his wife has been missing for two days. A wealthy socialite with no enemies and little reason to leave her life, he fears the worst has become of his wife. Keri takes on the case, assigned a new partner whom she hates, as Ray still recovers in the hospital. Her investigation leads her deep into the elite.

In A Trace of Vice (A Keri Locke Mystery, Book 3), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. It leads to a violent confrontation with The Collector - which, in turn, offers more clues that may, after all this time, reunite her with her daughter. Yet at the same time, Keri is assigned a new case, one with a frantic ticking clock. A teenage girl has gone missing in Los Angeles, a girl from a good family was who duped into drugs and abducted into a sex trafficking ring. Keri is hot on her trail - but the trail is moving fast, with the girl being constantly moved and with her abductors’ single, nefarious goal: to cross her over the border with Mexico.

Dark psychological thrillers with heart-pounding suspense, the Keri Locke Mystery series is a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you resisting to pause late into the night.

©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2019 Blake Pierce

Suspenseful

I loved this series! Looking at getting the last two books when I can afford them! He is a great author!

Did not care for the British flair

Did not like the British flair to It. The story took place in LA which didn't fit the voices

Good but strange choice for narrator

The narrator Elaine Wise is British but the story takes place in Los Angeles and is about Americans so it’s just jarring plus Elaine Wise doesn’t pronounce names of cities and last names of characters correctly. It’s very annoying. For example, she pronounces the double lls in La Jolla as an l sound instead of a y sound as is correct. Same with Detective Castillo.

Awesome collection

I loved this book and each of the stories my only confusion is why is a LA detective speaking with an English accent. I may have missed something in the first hook that explains that and would love to hear it - still a collection highly recommended

I admire Keri's perseverance.

3rd part of this trilogy cover to cover exciting. Prius pronunciation? erk... definitely worth waiting for next book.

Couldn’t handle narrator

It might have been a good story, but having an English narrator for a start situated in California is a bad idea!

great story... but the British accent???

the narrators accent was beyond irritating in the LAPD setting. I would succeed in ignoring it for a while then a wave of "are you kidding me?" woul come roaring back. and no, I am not normally a grouchy person. still, I listened to all 3 books.

Good story but errors.

Accent of the reader sounded like from England. English legal terms were used and there was an error near the end that the reader should have noticed and corrected.

Love the story, the narration, not so much

I love a good who done it, especially on a long car trip. What I don’t like about this one is the choice to use a narrator with a British accent to narrate a story happening in California. The difference between English and American is enough to make this hard to listen to. We’re it not for the fact that the stories are SO engaging, I would have ditched this at the first misspoken word. Now I’m stuck looking for book four! Where is that #@&! kid!?

Female Detectives

I have to say that the narration really was, I won't say awful but It was aggravating. Too loud of narration for starters for no reason, but she does calm down some. Then the switching between each character is well the same voice. I hate that. Most try to change or is able to change the time in their voice in order to please the reader so we can enjoy the book more. I think an american English speaker should have read these. (Just my opinion)I absolutely love to read books with female Detectives. It is my favorite kinda stories where females can solve crimes as well as men, sometimes even better. This story is well written yet kinda feels the endings should be a bit more to finish the story. It feels or seems like the endings are just not there. For instance ending a story with "well I hope you enjoyed your time here". That is kinda what it feels or seems these stories end. I know a next book follows but it just doesn't seem to coincide with the ending of the previous book. (I don't know just my opinion I guess.) But I totally recommend to everyone that enjoys these sorts of stories. I did purchase all 5 of the books in the series and will finish them all because they are great stories so far just not the narrative.