No Body No Crime
A Novel
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- $329.00
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- $329.00
Descripción editorial
From the bestselling author Tess Sharpe comes a new action packed thriller about two women whose lives—and hearts—are destined for each other.
Murder either bonds you or breaks you.
Rural PI Mel Tillman knows this well. She’s seen her fair share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. But killing with someone? That is a different kind of mess all together, and Mel’s got real experience with it.
No one’s heard from Toby Dunne since Chloe Harper’s sweet sixteen party—because the birthday girl and sixteen-year-old Mel buried him so deep in the backwoods, no one’s ever finding him. Mel loses little sleep over it—Toby had been terrorizing them.
What she does lose sleep over is Chloe, the girl with whom she survived that horrible night in the woods. Chloe, the girl she fell in love with. Chloe, the girl who disappeared and hasn’t been seen in more than six years.
Tasked with locating Chloe by her family, Mel can’t resist the call of a good chase, or finding the one who got away with her heart (and with murder). When Mel finds an armed and vigilant Chloe living off-grid in a highly booby-trapped patch of Canadian wilderness, she realizes that Chloe had been expecting someone other than her ex to come looking for her. The thing that’s kept Chloe going for years is that she’s kept Mel safe by running. Now, the truth must come out as they run for their lives once again.
Because when they buried Toby Dunne in the backwoods, they buried something else, too. Something Toby took. And the powerful family he stole it from? They’ll do anything to get it back.
Twisty and razor-sharp, Tess Sharpe’s No Body No Crime is a heart-pounding thriller teeming with secrets, betrayals, and a star-crossed romance for the ages.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sharpe (The Girls I've Been) satisfies with this taut thriller featuring a pair of young and resourceful women from opposite sides of the tracks. Rich girl Chloe Harper and trailer park denizen Mel Tillman fall into a secret lesbian relationship after their confrontation with teen drug dealer Toby Dunne ends with them burying his body in the woods on the night of Chloe's 16th birthday. Six years later, they've parted: Chloe has fled to the Canadian wilderness, and Mel has become a PI. Mel's mentor sends her to find Chloe so she can say goodbye to her dying father, but dangerous men are still after her, seeking answers about Toby's death. After Mel tracks down her former flame, the pair rekindle their connection while trying to avoid capture. Dynamic plot twists, shrewd pacing, and well-placed timeline jumps provide sturdy narrative scaffolding, but it's Sharpe's depiction of Chloe and Mel's complicated relationship—both in and out of control in dangerous situations, fiercely protective of one another but careful about what they share—that makes the novel shine. Readers who love rooting for antiheroes, or are hungry for queer stories that don't put queerness at the very center, will adore this.
