Hidden Nature
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4.2 • 124 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers…
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young—the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening.
Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case—and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Nora Roberts delivers a brilliant new combination of mystery, romance, and suspense in this read. After returning to her childhood home to recover from a gunshot wound, police officer Sloan Cooper decides to try her hand at a little online sleuthing. Before long, she’s connecting the dots between a series of unsolved disappearances and finding the time to strike up a connection with a cute guy named Nash who runs a local home-renovation business—and who doesn’t mind her passion for investigation one bit. Sloan is a fantastic heroine with a winsome sense of dogged determination. We felt totally wrapped up in the cozy, familiar atmosphere of her hometown. But as Sloan gets closer to the bizarre and gruesome truth about the cases she’s following, the story quickly goes from intriguing to exciting to downright gripping.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Roberts returns (after Mind Games) with a solid standalone about a wounded cop tracking a series of mysterious disappearances. Sloan Cooper, a corporal in Maryland's Natural Resources Police, is shot while stopping a robbery at a gas station. Faced with a long recovery process, she returns to her family home in the small mountain town of Heron's Rest. There, she meets Nash Littlefield, a former New York City lawyer who moved to Heron's Rest to start a contracting business with his younger brother. News that a woman in the area has disappeared, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, piques Sloan's interest. When a middle-aged man vanishes under similar circumstances, Sloan looks for connections between the cases, and finds several other disappearances in two nearby states. With Nash's help, Sloan investigates, and comes to believe that a serial killer is stalking the region. Roberts devotes more time to Nash's renovation projects—and his budding romance with Sloan—than the core mystery, but provides plenty of lovable side characters and cozy escapism. For Roberts's fans, this delivers the goods.
Customer Reviews
Family First
Another awesome story greatly enjoyed!
Absolutely loved the characters and thankful Nora shared an other one!
DIY manual, or a novel?
This was the worst book of NRs I’ve ever read (and I’ve read 90% of them). No character chemistry and SO many pages wasted on renovation descriptions - materials used, paint colors, cabinet choices, etc. And the multiple cooking scenes were practically recipes down to the last butter bean.
This book was HGTV-gone-wild with a dash of Food Network. It is also $16.99 wasted and a few hours of my life I’ll never get back.
Wasted my money on this one alas…
This felt so unlike a Nora Roberts book that I actually checked to see if she might have used AI to do it in part.
The characters were poorly developed and had little to no chemistry.
There was a lot of really clumsy dialogue that was hard to take - especially from the villains. The crime itself was overly creepy and somehow contrived. I have loved every Nora Roberts and JD Robb book that has come out. I’m usually way ahead of her and waiting impatiently for the next one to come out. Alas, this one was $16.99 wasted.