Review: Full Disclosure

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Ann Silver is a cop's cop. As the Midwest Homicide Investigator, she is called in to help local law enforcement on the worst of cases, looking for answers to murder. Hers is one of the region's most trusted investigative positions. 
Paul Falcon is the FBI's top murder cop in the Midwest. If the victim carried a federal badge or had a security clearance, odds are good Paul and his team see the case file or work the murder. 
Their lives intersect when Ann arrives to pass a case off her desk and onto his. A car wreck and a suspicious death offer a lead on a hired shooter he is tracking. Paul isn't expecting to meet someone, the kind that goes on the personal side of the ledger, but Ann Silver has his attention. 
The better he gets to know her, the more Paul realizes her job barely scratches the surface of who she is. She knows spies and soldiers and U.S. Marshals, and has written books about them. She is friends with the former Vice President. People with good reason to be cautious about who they let into their lives deeply trust her. Paul wonders just what secrets Ann is keeping, until she shows him the John Doe Killer case file, and he starts to realize just who this lady he is falling in love with really is...

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: October 2012

Mature content: nothing of sexual nature, but there are references to homicide investigations and serial killers. 

Review: I put Full Disclosure as a romantic suspense book but, to be honest, there's much more suspense and criminal investigation in this book than romance. I'm also rating it with four stars because it's well written, because of the way seemingly disconnected parts of the plot are so well weaved in at the end and because of the interesting criminal investigation twists and turns, a few of them quite unexpected.

You nevertheless should be aware that:

• it's a fairly long book and action moves rather slowly in places. There are long dialogs between the characters and even longer descriptions of places and events
• sometimes it seems you've landed in the middle of another plot. It's strange at first but don't give it up, it will all make sense as you move forward
• the romantic side of the plot is clearly downplayed. Actually, it bothered me pretty much at first, because Paul seems intent to choose a wife in the same way one would choose a racing horse or a prize winning cow. Nothing romantic there, and his relation (mostly long-distance) with Ann is pretty mild and uninteresting at first
• there's a huge array of secondary characters and plots and it's fairly easy to get lost
• there's a Christian undercurrent throughout the book, but nothing too overwhelming

This being said, it's a good book about serial crimes investigation - which involves a lot more paperwork, research and downtime than Hollywood movies usually portray it to be. You just need to be in the right mindset to enjoy it.

Happy readings,